Community-Based School Planning: If Not Now, When? |
Describes a new model of planning and decision-making for school design. Committees are being assembled that are truly representative, including parents, teachers, and students, as well as business... |
09/30/2002 |
Community/School: Sharing the Space and the Action. |
Details the procedures that will enable school districts to initiate and develop their own community schools. It discusses financing, planning, building, staffing, and operating facilities that are... |
10/31/1973 |
Constructing a New School. |
Through a year-long effort by the Little Village Community Development Corp. and following a 19-day hunger strike by parents and community members, the Chicago School Board committed to building a... |
05/31/2003 |
Corning's Choice. |
Discusses Corning, Inc.'s relationship with the surrounding community and the problem that arose when a large Corning-backed campus-style high school was proposed that brought objections from... |
06/30/2001 |
Creating a School for the Future: John A. Johnson Achievement Plus Elementary School: A Case Study. |
Describes the inception and realization of this revered community school created within a restored 1911 St. Paul, Minnesota, high school building, and combined with an adjoining new YMCA facility.... |
12/31/2003 |
Creating Communities of Learning: Schools and Smart Growth in New Jersey. |
This paper discusses New Jersey's unprecedented $12.3 billion school construction and reconstruction project, launched in 2000, as an opportunity to reconstruct the state's communities,... |
05/31/2001 |
Creating Communities of Learning: Schools and Smart Growth. |
Describes two projects seeded by New Jersey's Communities of Learners campaign: a national design competition for a new high school in Perth Amboy, and an effort to create large scale public... |
03/31/2004 |
Creating Connections: The CEFPI Guide for Educational Facility Planning. |
Guides new and experienced school planners from the conception of educational needs through occupancy and use of the completed facilities. Chapters follow the planning, design, and occupancy... |
12/31/2003 |
Creating Excellent Secondary Schools: A Guide for Clients. |
This British guide introduces some of the key issues around school design, and then proceeds through school building project stages: 1) creating a vision for the school and appraising the options:... |
12/31/2006 |
Creating Learning Environments That Work. |
Examines how Walnut Hills High School's (Cincinnati, OH) new Arts and Science Center was designed to students' and teachers' specifications. Facility assessment and planning are... |
04/30/2001 |
Cultivating Dialogue Before Building. |
Describes how two school districts--one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the other in Yorktown, Virginia--involved their communities in a school building and renovation planning process called discovery... |
05/31/2002 |
Cultural Impact of Participants in the Design of Community Schools. |
This report examines how the traditional roles and relationships between a school system as owner, and the architect, as designer, are substantially altered when educational facilities share their... |
12/31/1997 |
Customer-Focused Approach to Design Inspires Customization and Creativity. |
Discusses how including the community in the decision making process for school design helps prioritize design needs in new school construction and inspires customization and creativity. An example... |
06/30/1998 |
Design Down Process: Designing a School in Iceland with Its Users. |
Describes a process used by an architect to work with the stakeholders of a school in Iceland to design a new building. The process, called design down, starts with the biggest issues and moves... |
09/30/2002 |
Design Down: Collaboration for Long-Term Investment. |
Describes the author's design down process that brings designers, parents, educators, students, and administrators into the design process. The eleven steps of the design down process are... |
03/31/2005 |
Design for First Nations Schools: Learning in Four Directions. |
Explores the importance of storytelling in First Nations communities and describes three lessons learned by an architectural firm that has designed over 20 First Nations schools: engaging the... |
12/31/2004 |
Designing a Responsive School Environment. |
Describes the community involvement process initiated by the design firm and consultant for a new elementary school in Davidson, North Carolina. The process consisted of a literature search, numerous... |
12/31/1992 |
Designing a Responsive School: The Benefits of a Participatory Process |
Inadequate school facility planning carries fiscal, human, and academic costs. Building a responsive school requires that future inhabitants participate in the planning process. The accommodation of... |
05/31/1996 |
Designing Early Childhood Education Environments: A Partnership Between Architect and Educator |
Maxwell discusses the importance of teacher involvement in the child care facility design process to create a physical environment that facilitates learning goals. The physical attributes of an... |
07/31/1996 |
Designing Facilities for the Next Millennium |
Outlines a five-step process to help school and community members in planning the initial phases of a new school: (1) establish a realistic planning timeline; (2) select a design team with diverse... |
06/30/1999 |
Designing Schoolhouses of Quality. |
Discusses using consumer-focused techniques in the school construction and renovation. It explains the idea of allowing community stakeholders to direct the design of a school, its value in design... |
05/31/1998 |
Designing Schools for the Whole Community |
School buildings should be beautiful and inspirational, raising the spirits of those who use them. This explains how important it is that schools with funding for building work or improvements... |
09/30/2003 |
Designing Schools That Work |
A study of what people valued in an old school in Virginia and what they wanted in a new one can be summarized as a facility that encourages interaction among people. Specific planning... |
01/31/1993 |
Designing with Maintenance in Mind. |
When planning for a new facility, consideration of maintenance needs is crucial to successful design. Designing for maintenance needs involves considering such factors as the durability of materials... |
11/30/2002 |
Designs for Learning in the Knowledge Age. |
Reviews designs for learning in the knowledge age, exploring the relationship between learning and the built environment, examining the role of teachers in designing educational spaces, and calling... |
05/31/2003 |