
Big Improvements are Coming to Winooski School
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Winooski voters voice their support for the modernization and expansion of their local school.
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Winooski voters voice their support for the modernization and expansion of their local school.
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Schools today are turning to makerspaces to provide hands-on experiences that encourage students to design, invent, and build their own creations.
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The Digital Crayon Essays on School Design have been published as a softcover book, and we are giving away a free copy to the first 10 people who reach out.
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The typical early childhood classroom is thoroughly decorated, but does all of this visual noise provide inspiration or just distraction? One study showed some interesting results.
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Incorporating flexible and reconfigurable furniture is a great way to improve the classroom and promote student-centered learning. In this post, we share some new approaches to classroom furniture design.
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At the Leman Manhattan Preparatory School in New York City, a multi-purpose learning space has transformed into a creative, engaging indoor forest.
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Access to natural light affects our ability to remain alert – and to learn, which is why lighting upgrades are often central to school improvements. Here are four ways to introduce natural light into a classroom without windows.
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Providing fresh-air ventilation is key to creating a healthy, productive classroom environment. In this entry of the Digital Crayon, David Epstein explains how to incorporate and maintain a properly performing ventilation system.
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In this first post of a 5-part series, David Epstein explains how you can make improvements to classroom indoor air quality to improve student health and productivity.
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In this article, we discuss how schools can be designed to foster engagement in the world – in their school community, local community and regional and world contexts.
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A Framework for Understanding the Goals of School Design Introduction: This article is part three of a four part series exploring the Whole Child framework. The final article will discuss Engagement in further detail. In the article on “Wellness”, we discussed how the goal of creating a safe, healthy and accessible school provides a solid […]
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A Framework for Understanding the Goals of School Design Introduction: This article is part two of a four part series exploring the Whole Child framework. Subsequent articles will discuss Learning, and Engagement in further detail Overview Creating schools that are safe, healthy and accessible, and that promote these qualities provide an ideal setting for student […]