For more than 20 years, New Leaders has developed over 8,000 equity-focused leaders who reach two million students in over 45 cities nationwide. By Allison Joyner The National Aspiring Principals Fellowship, now offered at Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College, began a partnership with the educational nonprofit New Leaders earlier this year. Now halfway through […]
Tag: K-12
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New Learning Environment Geared Towards Success in Workplace
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 […]
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What’s your favorite part of Sprout Space?
This week, view a video featuring two key members of the Sprout Space team. Joe and Erika discuss their favorite parts of the project.
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Next Steps for Sprout Space
Whenever I tell people about Sprout Space, Perkins+Will’s new concept for modular classrooms, the reaction is overwhelmingly positive. If you are involved in education at all or have ever had a child attend classes in a traditional trailer, then you know first-hand how important this issue is. As for marketing Sprout Space, we have recently […]
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Being Healthy, Flexible, Sustainable Keys to Sprout Space
Last week I introduced Sprout Space, the modular classroom we designed at Perkins+Will that we hope will replace the trailers now used by eight million students in this country. These trailers, which are barely legal to be occupied as buildings, are often brought in by schools as temporary space when the school is experiencing growth […]
