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The purpose of the blog is to provide additional support to educators as well as parents and community members who wish to create schools which will provide children with the experiences needed to flourish!

​Anne Shaw, Director, 21st Century Schools

How Flexible Learning Spaces Support Student Learning

4/12/2017

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Watch the following video to see how you can transform your obsolete "cells and bells" school into a 21st century school.

The Learning Environment is the place to begin when you are creating schools that will support 21st century learning!

For more details and inspiration, please click the link below the video!
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Read the full article and see the wide array of fabulous learning spaces that can be integrated into a 21st century school!

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20th Century vs 21st Century Model of Education

8/22/2016

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In this post I am offering my perspectives on how education today remains firmly entrenched in what is often called the Factory Model, which was designed for the Industrial Revolution.  The majority of students at that time were educated to prepare for work on farms on in factories.  This is an obsolete model of a by-gone era.  But it is still with us today, well into the 21st century:

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The Physical Environment

12/11/2014

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The Physical Environment

When designing a physical learning environment intentionally designed to support 21st century learning you must consider the design of the actual school facilities and the schoolyards.  There is much more to the physical environment than beauty, although aesthetics are very important.  The designs you will learn about here, both for the facilities and the schoolyards, incorporate features which support the 21st century learning paradigm as well as physical, mental and emotional health.  As my favorite architect says, we have to "lose the cells and bells";  they are obsolete relics of a bygone era - the factory model of education. 

Check out these two pages for total information and inspiration!  

Facilities Design and  Schoolyards

Contact us to help you create these awesome, 21st century learning environments at your district or campus!  Note:  the facilities you see, designed by Fielding Nair International, are the best in the world, literally, and although they are incredibly gorgeous they actually cost about half the price of traditional facilities.  Contact us to find out more.
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