In this last column in a series on K-12 design, Barbara Crum, Principal and Market Sector Leader for K-12 at Perkins+Will, discusses a new type of learning environment that mirrors a traditional work place. The Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) in Overland Park, Kansas, provides high school juniors and seniors with unique educational programs […]
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Innovative School Designs Support 21st Century Learning
In this second of a series on K-12 design, Barbara Crum, Principal and Market Sector Leader for K-12 at Perkins+Will, discusses the concept of project-based learning and how it was incorporated into the design of Coahulla Creek High School in Dalton, Georgia. Most of us went to high schools with the same design: long corridors […]
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A Total Transformation: Benjamin E. Mays High School
In the first of this new three-part series. Barbara Crum, Principal and Market Sector Leader for K-12 at Perkins+Will, discusses the transformation of Benjamin E. Mays High School in Southwest Atlanta. Perkins+Will won an Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award for the project in June 2012. If you’ve ever been involved in a home renovation then […]
