| Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 9:15 – 10:15 am |
| The Innovation Campus: Student-Driven Learning for the NEXT Century |
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Speakers
Scott Krenner, AIA, Cuningham Group Architecture, Inc.
Jack Mousseau, Principal, MOA Architecture
Shawna Trujillo, Principal, Pathways Innovation Center/Roosevelt High School – Natrona School District
Ellingwood Room
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High school students in Casper, Wyoming, are directing their education and discovering opportunities for their future – whether it's college or the workforce. Pathways Innovation Center came out of years of planning and concern by the community that graduates weren't adequately prepared for life after graduation. Career exploration is at the core of Pathways, and each of the four academies feature an innovation lab with state-of-the-art industrial equipment and technology, giving students hands-on real world experience in career fields and allowing them to virtually connect with industry experts around the world. The centerpiece of Pathways is a two-story, 5,000-square-foot fabrication hall that was inspired by Boeing Airlines' facilities in Redmond, Washington, and is intended to inspire collaboration across academy disciplines. Pathways resides on a 38-acre campus that is shared with Roosevelt High School, the district's alternative school, which follows a "healthy mind, healthy body" curriculum which combines exercise with focused classroom instruction to improve student achievement. For many students in Natrona County, the opportunities available at Pathways and Roosevelt have provided them with not only real-world experience and skills, but also optimism for their future. According to the principal: "This has become a place of happiness for many kids who have struggled."
Bios
Scott Krenner is a Senior Associate at the international design firm, Cuningham Group Architecture, Inc. Scott acted as the lead Project Architect for both Pathways Innovation Center in Casper, WY and the award-winning new Alexandria Area High School in MN. A member of the firm for 11 years, he is the Design Leader for the group responsible for K-12 educational design at the Minneapolis-based firm.
Jack Mousseau is a nationally recognized design team leader on ECE-12 projects and a former president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter A4LE. He leads MOA Architecture's design efforts with over three decades of educational design experience. Jack's design solutions emerge from a thorough analysis of the program, the goals and aspirations of the client, the site context and a focus on sustainability into a project design that is both functional and flexible for end users.
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| Responding to Current Trends in Education and Sustainability: Goals and Unintended Consequences
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Speakers
Sherry Sajadpour, Artik Art & Architecture
Brian Peterson, Assoc. AIA, VCBO Architecture
Kevin Kemner, TSK Architects
Red Cloud Room
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Many architects and planners are now designing healthier buildings that create more energy than they use, incorporate natural lighting, and utilize interesting materials; they are also responding to new trends in educational pedagogy with team teaching rooms, learning commons, easily moveable furniture, and fluid open spaces that combine educational and social learning. In so doing, architects and designers are exploring how the physical environment can respond to these trends and how the buildings themselves open up opportunities and new ways of teaching; indeed, we often find ourselves taking the lead in advocating for new ideas. In this session, participants will learn about several completed and occupied school projects to examine how they are meeting their stated goals. Additionally, intended and unintended consequences, both positive and negative, will be discussed. Panel members will highlight surprising successes as well as the tension between passion and reality, between the design vision and the daily lives and work of people using the spaces. How well are they meeting their stated goals? What are the design consequences, and how can we adjust what we are doing to create better environments for learning?
Bios
Sherry Sajadpour has experience in the field of architecture with management responsibilities in all phases of project development. During her more than 15 years with Artik, she has been responsible for a variety of educational projects & project teams, including multiple large-scale campus modernizations and new campuses.
Brian Peterson is an Associate at VCBO Architecture. Brian, as an A4LE member and a past Southwest Region presenter, is passionate about the design of learning spaces, having been heavily involved on the design of more than a dozen Pre-K through 12 projects. Brian loves all aspects of the design process having just completed the design and construction of a playhouse for a children's hospital and teaching an art and architecture module to a local sixth grade class.
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| How Two Schools Overcame Rural Obstacles to Achieve Their Vision: A Brand-New High School in New Mexico and State-of-the-Art Technology in California |
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Co-panelists
Marilyn Strube, Greer Stafford SJCF Architecture, Inc.
Mario Millan, Richgrove School District
Panel Moderator
Jaime Mendez, FrontRow
Humbolt Room
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In the 2010-11 school year, over half of all operating regular school districts and about one-third of all public schools in the United States were in rural areas, while about one-quarter of all public school students were enrolled in rural schools; this ubiquity points to the close to 50 million students impacted by rural learning environments and calls for an exploration of how to begin, manage, and successfully complete buildings and technology projects away from suburbia and large cities. If you are about to embark on a rural school project, relationships, funding, and timing should be at the core of what you need to understand and help maneuver. How exactly can your organization help rural schools overcome obstacles and help them engage community members, obtain capital project partnerships, and successfully complete building and technology projects? In this panel presentation, Marilyn Strube, Principal and Director of Educational Facility Planning at Greer Stafford SJCF Architecture, Inc., together with Mario Millan, Superintendent for California’s Richgrove School District, will each share a rural school cases in New Mexico and one in California discuss:
- Why, in a rural setting, the community plays a crucial role and how to get community members involved
- How to obtain capital project partnerships and why they can make or break a rural project
- How to leverage grant, bond and other funds to complete vital rural school developments
- What rural schools need to do to develop and achieve their vision
- How you can become an integral part of a rural schools success, transforming its achievements into wins for your own organization
Discover how Strube helped a New Mexico school overcome lackluster community support for a brand new school site, how Millan tested and implemented his vision for a high-tech K-8 campus, and how each of them found success in reaching their strategic goals. Strube and Millan will share the specifics of their respective cases and will convey transferable knowledge to help you find success in rural project scenarios. The panel and its Q&A segment will be moderated by A4LE member and architectural consultant, Jaime Mendez.
Learning Objectives
- Learn why, in a rural setting, the community plays a crucial role and how to get community members involved
- Learn how to obtain capital project partnerships and why they can make or break a rural project
- Learn how to leverage grant, bond and other funds to complete vital rural school developments
- Learn how to become an integral part of a rural schools success, transforming its achievements into wins for your own organization
Bios
Marilyn Strube is a Certified Educational Facilities Planner who leads the planning department of Greer Stafford SJCF Architecture, Inc. She has been with Greer Stafford for 28 years, during which time she has been extensively involved in developing Facilities Master Plans and Educational Specifications. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from the University of New Mexico.
Mario Millan has been the Superintendent of California's Richgrove School District for the past 15 years and he has been teaching since 1995. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Teaching Credential from Cal State Bakersfield.
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| Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 10:30 – 11:30 am |
| Integrated Makerspaces for Better Learning Environments |
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Facilitator
Osleide Walker, Associate Project Designer/Director, IBI Group
Panelists
Michael Caston, MID, University of Denver, Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science
Janet Hollingsworth Librarian, Co-founder Building 61 Makerspace, Boulder, Colorado Public Library
Ali (Alexandra) Struzziero, Technology and Innovation Specialist at Ricks Center for Gifted Children, University of Denver, Makerspace/Innovation Lab for K-8 Students
Ellingwood Room
Panel Discussion with innovators who have successfully integrated makerspaces at libraries, museums, K12 and higher education. The session shall include a slide presentation, how to integrate maker spaces, case studies, lessons learned and how to be a makerspace trendsetter going into the future.
Learning Objectives
- How to integrate a Makerspace into different environments
- Impact of Makerspace for the community and targeted learners
- How does Makerspace change the physical learning environment
- Discuss need for more specialized staff/resources for MakerSpace Manager/Coordinator
Bios
Osleide Walker is an Associate Project Designer with IBI Group. She has 19 years of experience designing learning environments to foster creativity. She designs spaces to promote mobility and adaptability for current and future trends. To stay current with innovations in the pedagogy field, Osleide actively participates in the College Bond Today Mentoring Program at Montebello Unified School District where she had been the Project Designer. She is Co-Chair for Alternative Learning Environments at CAE.
Michael Caston is an Associate Professor of Innovation and Product Design at the University of Denver. He is also Executive Director of the Innovation floor, the university’s makerspace and incubator. He has years of experience in Industrial Design and Entrepreneurship as a partner in a product and graphic design firm. Michael’s research is in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Community Engagement and Industry Projects, Market Feasibility, LearnerCentered Teaching, Blended Learning, Experiential Learning, Bio-Mechanics, and Organizational Behavior.
Janet Hollingsworth is a structural engineer, furniture maker, and librarian who co-founded BLDG 61, the all-ages makerspace at the Boulder Public Library in 2016. As a Creative Technologist, she curates dynamic learning environments and facilitates maker programs and apprenticeships at BLDG 61 including: fiber arts, screen printing, woodworking, laser cutting, machining, robotics, digital fabrication, book binding, and more.
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| OPEN BUILDING: Creating Resilient Educational Environments |
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Speakers
John Dale, FAIA, HED
Stephen Kendall, Infill Systems USA LLC
Red Cloud Room
Educational buildings constitute a huge and influential part of our built environment and directly impact a huge portion of our population on a daily basis. At any given point in time the majority of these facilities are inadequate to the task at hand providing meaningful, relevant, accommodating, healthy settings for learning. In fact, many of these buildings continue to operate long after they have become obsolete. Many of our school districts undergo cycles of renewal and rebuilding in 30-year increments and are – in between these disruptive renewal programs – frequently finding their building stock an impediment to the vital activities essential to effective and progressive education. This panel and workshop is an exploration of decision-making strategies designed to support a longer and more dynamic vision about the creation of educational facilities. Open Building is a design, decision-making and resource allocation approach that offers clients and the public a long-lasting architectural portfolio that at the same time allows fluid occupation and use; enables affordable and less disruptive upgrades at many levels; and accommodates shifting pedagogies, alternate furniture configurations and evolving instruction technologies with minimal disruption and in a way that minimizes a building stock's carbon footprint. Open Building balances permanence and change to create dynamic and resilient settings for a wide range of human activities.
Learning Objectives
- Become acquainted with the principals of Open Building and the origins of an international movement for the creation of flexible, resilient, place-specific structures.
- Learn about recent, cutting edge educational projects that embody Open Building principals.
- Gain insight into the client perspective on planning for flexibility in educational environments.
- Understand the implications of systems design as an aspect of Open Building.
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John Dale has been planning, programming and designing educational environments for over 25 years. In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for this focus. By defining small learning communities which boost student achievement and galvanize community involvement, he creates high performance learning environments that are widely recognized models of regional and national significance. Mr. Dale also promotes green schools. Building on evidence-based research, he puts in practice the theory that students are healthier and learn more effectively in sustainable, resilient environments. John has just completed his term as Chair of the Leadership Group of AIA's National Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE). He is also a member and Past-President of the Board of Directors of the A+D (Architecture and Design) Museum, Los Angeles; and is Co-Founder of the North American Open Building Council.
Dr. Kendall's research, lecturing and consulting focus on the Open Building approach to the design, construction and continuous adaptation of buildings. This approach emphasizes planning for change, by assuring that parts of buildings with long-term asset value (e.g. structure, façade, egress systems) are clearly disentangled from parts that change at more frequent cycles (e.g. functional layouts, function-dependent mechanical systems). In long-lasting buildings, distributed control of change must be recognized and planned for. Dr. Kendall is a registered architect whose academic and research career spans more than 35 years. He has a professional degree from the University of Cincinnati, a Masters of Architecture and Urban Design from Washington University in St. Louis, and a PhD in Design Theory and Methods from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| Can a Building "Hug" the Students? Response to the Dynamic New Learning Environments of a Middle School |
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Speakers
Margaret (Peggy) Kinsey, Nonehshe Architecture LLC
Bryan Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Semple Brown Architects and Designers
Jerry Walker, Kent Denver School
Humbolt Room
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Question? How does the physical design of a school affect the social dynamics of that community? If learning environments today are anywhere, any place and anytime, then how does the built environment respond to a multi-disciplinary, interactive, and problem based curriculum? What does that look like for a particular age group – middle school? Perhaps the building should provide students in early adolescence with an environment that can help them negotiate the impact of puberty on their intellectual, social and emotional lives. Let's imagine how the building itself can foster the sense of a caring community and "hug" the students. This was the challenge put forth to the design team when the Kent Denver School decided it was time to replace their aging middle school buildings. The team will share their journey and the solution with the audience and promote an open conversation through the use of an interactive "fish bowl" format.
Learning Objectives
- The format will encourage open discussion of how a design can actually influence activity and behavior.
- The presented project will demonstrate one response to current learning modalities through design options.
- At the end of this presentation, participants will have a better understanding of how environments can shape outcomes.
- The participants will understand the importance of connecting all the issues in order to make better decisions as they work on creating learning environments that "spark a true joy for learning".
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Peggy Kinsey is a distinguished and recognized authority in the school design community with over 100 schools completed in the last 39 years. Involved in several professional organizations in her career; she was a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Chapter; twice president and named Planner of the Year in 2007. A motivating and passionate speaker, Peggy offers innovative ideas to creating the most successful learning environments using sustainable principles.
Bryan Schmidt is a principal and the vice-president of Semple Brown Architects and Design, a highly regarded Denver architectural firm. From conception through completion, Bryan is responsible for the success of a wide range of building types. His experience includes award winning projects such as the Ellie Caulkins Opera House and RedLine for Contemporary Art. He has also completed multiple projects for Kent Denver School including the Student Center for the Arts and Schaden Dining Hall.
Jerry Walker is the Associate Head of School, Chief Financial Officer and History teacher at Kent Denver, a private, coeducational college-preparatory school serving middle and high school students in grades 6-12. He oversees both operations and facilities and has this to say about his position. “I am fortunate to work in a learning community where both students and adults bring their best to school every day. I enjoy both my time in the classroom and the opportunity to connect with students there as well as the wide range of responsibilities I have at Kent Denver.”
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| Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 9:15 – 10:15 am |
| A Spectrum of STEAM Spaces for K-12 |
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Speakers
Jomay Liao, ALEP, LPA, inc.
Julie Z. Cramer, PhD, Wayfind Education
Ali Johnston, LPA, inc.
Ellingwood Room
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STEAM education can encompass a wide variety of approaches, leading to a variety of spaces dedicated to supporting an interdisciplinary philosophy. This session will explore a variety of projects designed and built for all grade levels – comparing and contrasting features and decisions educators made to best support their school. From a small stand-alone maker/science building at an elementary level, to a high school engineering lab, and a maker space/ flexible classroom area for homeless students, to dispersed open commons/breakout/project areas between classrooms that encourage interdisciplinary teaching. This session will cover the entire spectrum of STEM/STEAM education at elementary, middle and high school and a variety of lessons learned when planning for a future-ready STEAM education space, whether the school is specialized or comprehensive, including indoor and outdoor education areas. Featured projects include a religious, private k-12 school, a public school dedicated to serving homeless children, a public small STEM-focused academy addition to a comprehensive high school and a public middle school addition with a variety of breakout and project areas. This session will also include research on age-related developmental needs of children and teens to best engage and empower students to take ownership of their own education.
Learning Objectives
- Define key terms including: STEM/STEAM/STREAM, PBL, NGSS, PLTW, and design-thinking; there is a wide spectrum of STEM
- it can mean many things & curricula will vary from school to school
- Recognize the 4 types of spaces needed to foster creativity, both indoors and out
- Recognize the restorative impact experiencing nature has on all our minds, reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, and enhancing creative thinking.
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An A4LE Advanced Academy graduate, Jomay Liao has dedicated her career to educational facilities planning and architectural project management. Jomay has been with LPA for 15 years and has led district-wide Facility Master Planning processes and facilitated steering committees, community engagement activities, educational user group and operations and maintenance committee meetings. As an Educational Facility Planner, she has assisted districts in developing educational program vision and standards, design guidelines and conceptual master plan programming.
Julie Zoellin Cramer's work sits at the intersection of people, place and approach. Through a journey of curiosity, Julie seeks to understand the desired learning experience and context by asking deeper questions to better understand the realities of the learning community. Alongside LPA, Julie's work results in design strategies that lead towards more authentic learning and working environments.
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| A Place in History: Approaches to Renovation and New Construction on Historic Campuses |
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Speakers
Julie Walleisa, AIA, ALEP, LEED AP BD+C, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini
Keri Stevenson, AIA, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini
Red Cloud Room
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It can be challenging to balance competing priorities when completing projects on historic campuses. An educational planner and an architect who focuses on historic preservation will use case studies to demonstrate how two different 100-year-old, multi-building campuses with distinctive architectural styles have navigated this challenge. Strategies will be discussed for balancing historic integrity with a school educational mission, addressing difficult demolition decisions, and working within public funding constraints, as well as how strategies may differ between new construction and renovation/addition projects and between eligible and listed properties. Case studies presented will demonstrate two different approaches to historic preservation, providing participants with a variety of considerations and options.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to describe the physical and financial challenges of adapting historic schools to modern educational system needs.
- Participants will be able to assess the appropriateness of different approaches for improving functionality while preserving historic integrity.
- Participants will be able to describe alternative methods for preserving heritage when its not possible to preserve historic buildings or physical elements.
- Participants will be able to apply design principles that are appropriate for new construction, renovation, minor addition, and major addition projects within a historic campus setting.
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Julie Walleisa is an Accredited Learning Environment Planner (ALEP) and Architect who specializes in early childhood, K-12, and higher education design. She focuses on translating educational trends and learning models into school space programs and designs that meet today's functional needs and are adaptable for future changes. Julie has a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University and is a Principal at Dekker/Perich/Sabatini.
Keri Stevenson is an architect with experience in historic preservation and architectural conservation. Mrs. Stevenson has developed documentation and preservation strategies for several landmark buildings, including the Las Flores Adobe at USMCB Camp Pendleton and Mission Concepcion in San Antonio, Texas. An architect at Dekker/Perich/Sabatini design firm, and formerly with Conservation Associates, Mrs. Stevenson focuses on advancing historic preservation efforts in K-12 and higher education facilities.
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| Case Study: Unschool |
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Speakers
Derek Labrecque, JK Architecture Engineering
Brett Mitchell, San Juan USD
Ryan Tognetti, Flint Builders
Humbolt Room
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San Juan USD, California's 6th largest school District saw the opportunity and necessity to rethink traditional education and prototype a new high school model that focuses on passion based learning. Emphasis will be placed on WHY? they needed to rethink education, HOW? they engaged the community to address this influence and WHAT? the facility needs are to support this type of learning environment. We anticipate this presentation to be a combination of representative team members as well as virtual / interactive mentor/student discussions from Unschool. You are encouraged to watch the UnSchool Disorientation Meeting ahead of this discussion; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e1EbAW2Wt0
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Derek Labrecque is a Partner with JK Architecture Engineering an provides over 20 years of experience focused on educational design. He understand the importance of collaborative planning and community outreach in defining a vision beyond the initial preconceptions. A cornerstone of his creative design experience emphasizes the hands-on learning environments for 21st Century student learning & experiences. His professional experiences range from designing traditional learning environments, to specialized thematic magnet schools, charter schools and project-based learning environments through a balanced approach for integrating Architecture, Education and Sustainably.
Brett Mitchell is the Director of Facilities for the San Juan Unified School District. As the Director, Brett manages a $2.4 Billion dollar capital improvement effort with current bond authorization of $1.2 billion. Brett has an undergraduate degree in Construction Management. After several successful years in the construction industry, he left to teach math and physics. Brett then was a High School Principal and now a Director in San Juan. Brett's Post Graduate studies includes a Master's Degree in Education Administration and a recently completed Doctorate (ABD) in Organizational Leadership. This unusual combination of experience gives Brett a unique ability to manage school district capital improvement interests from both an educator and builder mindset.
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| Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 10:30 – 11:30 am |
| Preparing Students for the Modern Workplace // Center for Innovation at the Leroy Green Academy |
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Speakers
Sandra Kate, HMC Architects
Leslie Sargent, Natomas Unified School District
Brian Meyers, HMC Architects
Ellingwood Room
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Despite today's technological advancements, schools still struggle to keep up the most current trends. Along with the evolution in physical technology, the tech industry is changing the way students are engaging, learning, and developing expectations of their future careers. For the today's student, workplace environments that encourage entrepreneurial spirit, flexible collaboration, and integrated technology such as in leading tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple will be the norm. However, the gap between school environments and today's workplace appears to be growing wider. How can we help bridge this gap to better prepare students for successful careers? In this session, we will examine the Leroy Greene Academy in the Natomas Unified School District and uncover the impact that their Business and Entrepreneurial Program and Center for Innovation has on preparing students for the current tech workplace. Principal Sargeant will introduce Leroy Greene’s student-owned project-based Business and Entrepreneurship program, the benefits, how it works, and the importance the right learning environment has on the programs success. Attendees will hear the story of Principal Sargeant's idea to transform an underutilized library and science lab on campus, to create a Center for Innovation that would mirror the current tech work environment. The principal will discuss partnering with HMC Architects early in the process to develop a design that would not only meet the programs needs, but also embody the Center tech industry-focused spirit. By targeting a remodel of old spaces, the campus was able to regain 3,900 SF of useable space for minimal construction costs and maximum gain. Next, HMC will walk through key design solutions that led to the success of the new space. Solutions include an energizing color palette, flexible furniture, and innovative technology infused throughout the building. To accommodate students working on group projects, there are small, medium, and large collaboration spaces; a glass enclosed – think tank – and writable walls and surfaces. Various-sized collaboration areas and seating options can be quickly manipulated to suit students academic needs. Collectively, these features transport students from their everyday classroom experience to an environment that resembles the look and feel of a startup company. We will also present a video that shows the Center for Innovation in use, various student projects, and student feedback to how the program will prepare them for life after graduation. Principal Sargeant will provide insight on the Centers positive impact on students, such as the increase in enrollment, attendance, and grades. Lastly, we will have a discussion with the audience about lessons learned and an open dialog to expand on further questions and details.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate the importance and benefits of student-owned spaces and projects.
- Share how the integration of flexible furniture and technology was key to success.
- Helping prepare students for future success through the incorporation of current tech workplace trends into the education environment
- Encourage an early partnership between design team and principal to fully understand teaching modality and program needs.
Bios
Sandra Kate has specialized in planning, programming, design, and project management of Pre-K-12 education facilities in California, as well as multiple states throughout the United States, for more than 33 years. She is an advocate for education and understands the importance of creating environments that remain learner focused, while supporting a variety of district goals and community needs. She teaches a class in The Design Process of Educational Facilities for the Advanced Academy for Learning Spaces.
Leslie Sargent has been a principal for over a decade and brings unrivaled passion and dedication to the betterment of the educational environment. Her clear vision and thought leadership drove the entire design process of the Center for Innovation at Leroy Green Academy to create one of the most successful student run programs in the area. Additionally, she was named 2015 "Site Administrator of the Year" for the Natomas Unified School District.
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| Space Matters. And Research that Begins to Prove It: Piloting Student Engagement in Grades 9-12 |
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Speakers
Dr. Lennie Scott-Webber, Phd, INSYNC: Education Research + Design
Jim French, FAIA, DLR Group
Ellingwood Room
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Can we demonstrate that the design of the built environment for grades 9-12 impacts student academic engagement level? DLR Group and Lennie Scott-Webber, a nationally recognized researcher developed a survey instrument for post-occupancy that queries both educators and students, to understand how the physical environment impacts student engagement levels. This tool does not measure if students just like the space, or if students grades achievement went up, but truly if the academic engagement levels increased based on the built environment. A sample was designed and tested with goals including:
- answer the research question,
- build a reliable and valid instrument, and
- hopefully research significance.
Respondents saw a real effect of the physical environment on student engagement in both their teaching and learning. Come hear how research efforts are used to develop a survey instrument, gain an understanding of why our firm believes in generating an empirical research platform using academic scientific standards, and discuss the survey outcomes through an interactive Q&A session to more fully understand the process, and the possibilities of incorporating a tool like this.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will become aware of the research efforts used to develop a survey instrument looking at the impact of the design of the built environment on student engagement
- Attendees will now be able to recognize the significance of this type of research on reducing anxiety for developing the macro and micro environments for schools for decision makers
- Participants will leave with an in-depth understanding of why one architectural firm believes in generating an empirical research platform using academic scientific standards
- Session participants will engage in a discuss of the details shared in the presentation through an interactive Q&A session to more fully understand the (a) process, and (b) possibilities of incorporating a tool such as the one developed.
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Dr. Lennie Scott-Webber is a leading thinker on the evolution of what we know about learning, the learner and learning places. She has pioneered research strategies addressing how built environments impact student engagement and learner success, and designed future-focused, evidence-based design applications. She is Owner & Principal of INSYNC: Education Research + Design. Formally: the founding Director of Education Environments Globally for Steelcase Education; tenured professor, Director of the iLAB Research Center, Radford University; and more.
Jim French leads DLR Group's Global K-12 Studio as one of the most respected K-12 designers in the US. He has led designs for over $1.5 billion in educational facilities via thorough understanding of how kids learn. His three decades of educational planning experience elevates school design across the country and his passion for incorporating vision into a design solution helped DLR Group become the first firm to win the A4LE’s MacConnell Award two consecutive years.
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| People, Pinterest and Programming: Planning a School for Homeless Children |
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Speakers
Gary L. Armbruster, MA+ Architecture
Amy Brewer, Positive Tomorrows
Humbolt Room
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How do you have public involvement for a school where the children are homeless and in many cases their parents aren't very involved? Find out how we had to step out of our normal programming and planning comfort zone to design a facility that the children, the faculty and the community could be proud of. In this program we will explore how we met with the students, faculty and staff to get their ideas for the new school and our use of Pinterest as a programming tool.
In this session, attendees will learn how to reach out and program a school for homeless children by using Pinterest as a programming tool and how to organize the information for large groups to understand. You will learn how to communicate with a homeless school community to gain their ideas and learn various techniques to get design ideas from PK-5th grade students.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to reach out and program a school for homeless children
- Learn how to use Pinterest as a programming tool and how to organize the information for large groups to understand
- Learn how to communicate with a homeless school community to gain their ideas
- Learn various techniques to get design ideas from PK5th grade students
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Mr. Armbruster is a 21 year veteran of MA+ Architecture and the Education Studio Director that is responsible for programming and design coordination for all education projects. He uses his listening and communication skills to document the project requirements to ensure the clients expectations are incorporated in the design and construction documents. An Accredited Learning Environment Planner (ALEP) through the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE), he is one of only three ALEPs in Oklahoma.
Ms. Brewer is the Director of Education at Positive Tomorrows, Oklahoma's only private elementary school serving homeless children. Before coming to Positive Tomorrows in 2011, she taught in the public school system for eleven years. She currently holds certifications in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, and Mild to Moderate Disabilities and serves on the Federal Reserve’s Economic Advisory Council as a poverty expert.
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