Southern California Chapter

The chapter includes the counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura.

Region / Chapter Member Care Manager: Carla Cummins

Chapter Cohort Groups

Goals & Objectives

Our chapter’s newly developed cohort program was created as a means to engage a broad range of A4LE members and non-members alike. These cohort groups are subject-matter focused and will provide a monthly forum for discussions, presentations, and exchange of ideas in an intimate, small-group setting. The goals for this program include:

• Bring value to our audience (both members and non-members) by providing regular, timely content relevant to their needs.
• Provide an additional, regular forum for the chapter’s audience to engage and contribute in a meaningful way.
• Offer our school district/public members an additional professional development opportunity.

Cohort Group Structure

• Cohort groups will be led by an A4LE member.
• The cohort group leaders will facilitate the meetings, and work with their respective cohort group members to identify content for each meeting.
• Cohort groups will meet monthly (virtually) at a pre-determined standing day and time.
• In its inaugural year, cohort groups are open to both members AND non-members alike at no cost!

Inaugural Cohort Groups include:

Designing for Mental & Emotional Health. This group will explore improving student wellness through design, and how a healthy environment can assist in educators’ goal of educating the whole person, and more.

Register

• Cohort Group Leader: Tonya Giebel, Corgan
• Group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, 12 – 1 PM.
• 2022 meetings are scheduled for 1/11/22; 2/8/22; 3/8/22; 4/12/22; 5/10/22; 6/4/22; 7/12/22; 8/9/22; 9/13/22; 10/11/22; 11/8/22; and 12/13/22.

Sustainability (Re)defined for Healthy Campuses. Learn more about creating and maintaining healthy spaces and the effect on occupants (students, teachers, admin staff), and making sense of sustainable products, processes and the impacts on human health and the school environment.

Register

• Cohort Group Leader: Sue Ewing, Patcraft
• Group meets on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 11 – 12 PM.
• 2022 meetings are scheduled for 1/19/22; 2/16/22; 3/16/22; 4/20/22; 5/18/22; 6/15/22; 7/20/22; 8/17/22; 9/21/22; 10/19/22; 11/16/22; and 12/21/22.

2022 Annual Regional Conference

May 2-7, 2022 Ed-Ventures into the Metaverse: How Students will Design Schools of the Future The LINQ Hotel + Experience Las Vegas, NV

Click here for more information and to register for the conference.

2021 Award Winners

	Honor Award Boys Republic Max Scott Culinary Arts Center Chino Hills, CA Architecture 4 Education
	Honor Award EStem at Roosevelt High School Eastvale, CA LPA Architects
	Merit Award Cal Poly Student Housing and Dining Commons Pomona Valley, CA HMC Architects
	Merit Award Learning Resource Center Palomar College San Marcos, CA LPA Architects
	Merit Award Portola High School Irvine Unified School District Irvine, CA HMC Architects

Click here to view all entries.