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Creating an Unquenchable Thirst for Education in Young People |
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Manuel Scott
So many leaders have given up on youth today, saying "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." Manny Scott argues that "while you can't MAKE the horse drink, you CAN slap some salt in its mouth to make it thirsty!" He shares exactly how leaders can make children want an education.
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It Takes a Village |
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Hal Bowen, RATIO Architects
Tim Carr, YMCA of the Triangle
Dexter Herbert, YMCA of the Triangle
Marcella Rorie, Wake County Public Schools
Domain: Context
How do you break the cycle of poverty in a struggling community? In 2015, the YMCA of the Triangle shepherded a 'quarterback agency' called the Southeast Raleigh Promise. This organization (a 501/c/3) aligned with Purpose-Built Communities (also a 501/c/3) will build the partnerships suitable to meet the needs of the community and implement a holistic approach for transforming neighborhoods by investing in affordable housing, education, recreation, health care, and access to healthy food. Join stakeholders from each of these organizations in a round table discussion about the opportunities generated and challenges encountered to bring about this Public Private Partnership.
The YMCA of the Triangle is leading the Wellness-Education effort through a MOU with the Wake County Board of Education to construct a joint YMCA and 500 student elementary school in the center of the 31 acre proposed development. The community engagement, partnering efforts and long range planning are well underway to make this the 17th "Purpose-Built Community" in the nation.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what a Purpose-Built Community is.
- Explore what challenges had to be overcome to set this project in motion.
- Discover the keys to successfully implementing a visionary project such as this.
- Learn what the intended outcomes are for this partnership.
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Responsive Classrooms: Improving Architectural Indoor-Outdoor Spatial Relations to Enhance Teaching and Learning Motivations in Preschool Classrooms |
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Muntazar Monsur, PhD, North Carolina State University
Nilda Cosco, PhD, North Carolina State University
Robin Moore, North Carolina State University
Domain: Learning, Context, Process
Can windows in a classroom become effective tools for teaching and learning? Explore how school/classroom
Architecture has a possible influence on child engagement and teacher motivation. Children's learning is
an emergent issue in the fields of design and education. A correlation study was conducted to investigate
the influence of specific architectural indoor-outdoor features of the learning environment demonstrating
that improved conditions of indoor-outdoor relationships enhance both student engagement and teacher
motivation. Indoor-outdoor relationship in a classroom is much more than the size and number of windows
and doors. Even delicate design details like the depth of window sills contribute to learning. However
improving indoor-outdoor spatial relations cannot be entirely achieved by the architect or landscape architect...
the action and decisions of the classroom teacher (facilitator) are equally important. This session will explore
the various aspects of architectural design, furniture arrangement, indoor zoning and landscaping of the
surrounding environment, key to enhancing the indoor-outdoor relations.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the importance of improved conditions of architectural classroom indoor-outdoor
relationships to enhance both child engagement and teacher motivation.
- Learn how to systematically measure classroom indoor-outdoor relation score in terms of
learning benefits in preschool classrooms
- Develop design ideas and formulate curricular innovations to improve classroom indoor-outdoor
Relationships for learning enhancement in preschool classrooms.
- Identify how current scientific research in the field of environment-behavior relationship may
inform design decisions and guidelines.
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Team Work Makes the Dream Work |
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Ed Gordon, ALEP, Smith Sinnett Architecture
Steve Myers, Onslow County Schools
Students
Domain: Process
Call it project-based learning, 21st century learning or hands-on learning, one thing is clear – this isn't the school we all grew up in. Curriculum focuses on the development of creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. How do our facilities reflect, support and promote today's learning styles? How does it work for each individual student?
Schools, educational leaders and designers – we are all dedicated to preparing students for life in collaborative learning environments that encourage cooperative work teams in a space that can be defined and redefined as learners and learning styles change and evolve. The design of a new middle school prototype explores the design and collaborative process that creates an environment that inspires multi-disciplinary education, more closely simulating the workplace, our lives and our future in a rapidly changing world.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an understanding of the impact of a collaborative process in the creation of a project based learning environment
- Discover the value of incorporating the student's vision in developing active learning spaces
- Explore the successes and inherent challenges in creating flexible individualized learning spaces through a case study.
- Understand the total project process, spanning a ten year period, highlighting evolving technology and learning environments
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Implementing Brain-Power Learning: Empowering Learning for the Innovation Economy |
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Thomas Eliaeson, Little
Tom Balke, Little
Domain: Learning
There is a powerful relationship between the Brain, Learning and Learning Spaces. In today's hyper-connected, high speed, customizable and knowledge-driven society, what are the roles of education and education spaces? Preparing students for the complex future world that we are yet to comprehend will require transcendental solutions that intertwine a 21st century curriculum, state-of-the-art technologies and immersive learning environments.
We are increasingly learning about how the brain receives ad retains information, how different individuals learn best, how changing technologies are facilitating new approaches for teaching and learning and how our increasingly complex global challenges will require equally complex solutions.
With this new knowledge, we will focus on implementing a pattern language for designing immersive learning environments that address a new paradigm of learning, teaching and working. This session will explore three case studies- Invest Collegiate: Transform Charter School, and Covenant Day School – that feature immersive learning environments that empower learning by comprehensively blending the Brain, Learning Styles and Space as a response to personalized learning for all.
Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate our new reality and why it is more important than ever for kids to be ready to engage in a creative, collaborative and innovative economy.
- Explore how Neuroscience impacts learning and how learning environments can optimize the brain's ability to receive and retain information.
- Review how shifting educational paradigms (PBL, Common Core Curriculum, Flipped Classroom, customized student education, etc.) and changing technologies such as video-infused learning, augmented reality, gaming and asynchronous tools are progressively mounting pressure on how we should reconceive the design of our learning environments.
- Explore the challenges and successes of schools daring to be different and responding to individual learning needs.
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North Carolina School Site Selection and Transportation Impacts |
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Matthew Palmer, NCSU Institute for Transportation Research
Domain: Context, Process, Toolbox
North Carolina's demographic growth trends – in-state and rural to urban migration) – and existing education facilities demands place increasing pressure on local school facility planners and education leadership in LEA's to build new education facilities. In light of these trends, a consideration of the relationship between school facilities and school transportation operations and costs is critical in order to maximize the efficient use of public education funding. This practitioner-focused workshop is geared toward practice-ready tools and will be broken into three components: first, an overview of the strategic and policy factors influencing the site selection process; second, a look at local and contextual factors that impact school travel; and third, the introduction and demonstration of the school site selection cost-calculator, an interactive tool that enables users to mod school travel-related costs over time.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand intersection of school facilities and transportation
- Articulate the cost factors associated with school travel
- Utilize school travel cost calculator
- Identify school siting and travel resources
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Results Matter: New Schools, New Results |
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Robert Steele, Perkins Eastman
Brad Crotts, Perkins Eastman
CMS Schools
Domain: Context
Newell Elementary School was a Rosenwald School built in 1920. In keeping with the theme, "Transforming Spaces to Empower All Learners," the workshop will examine a case study comparing an original historic school, the second version built in the 60's, and the current Newell Elementary School newly opened for the 2015-2016 school year. We will look at differences between the previous GenY
and the current Gen X students' needs, values and perspectives as these students experience the K-12 process. What issues does a new facility need to address to accommodate today's needs and encourage all learners to flourish? Additionally, we will look at the school's heritage as a Rosenwald school that opened in 1920 providing relevant design goals and principles, some of which are still applicable today. With the older design principles and the addition of new design strategies, we will look at an analysis of the new school in its first academic year, including academic performance and disciplinary referral rates.
Learning Objectives:
- Study the architectural history of Rosenwald Schools.
- Understand current student generational profiles- Gen Y vs Gen X.
- Explore design strategies for lower disciplinary incidents.
- Investigate design strategies for school security issues.
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