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Learning Without Classrooms
Visionary Designs for Secondary Schools
Transform how your school operates to better prepare students. Learn how the six areas of school management and structure—school and community partnerships, instruction, school timing and scheduling, physical learning environments, educational technology, and budget—intersect to affect students’ academic performance.
Benefits
- Learn the six elements of schooling, and understand how changing any one element influences the others.
- Explore nine critical skills students need for success in the modern world.
- Review the structure and methodology behind an advisory-based concept for school management.
- Consider scenarios of what learning will look like in the near future as powerful new technological tools become available.
- Study seven visionary designs for how to renovate existing secondary school facilities to support technologically infused, personalized learning environments.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Understanding 21st Century Learning
Chapter 1: The Classroom Has Run Its Course
Chapter 2: Key Principles for Modern Schooling
Chapter 3: Nine Essential Skills for the Modern World
Chapter 4: How Technology Will Change Education
Part II: Designing 21st Century Schools
Chapter 5: Schooling for the Future
Chapter 6: How to Make It Happen
Chapter 7: Concepts for New Advisory-Based Schools
Part III: Reimagining Schools for the 21st Century
Chapter 8: Additional Considerations for Transitioning to an Advisory Format
Chapter 9: The Capital School: A Historic High School Draws Inspiration from Its Rich Urban Context
Chapter 10: The Green School: A School Built Before Air Conditioning or Computers Inspires New Teaching, Learning, and Sustainability
Chapter 11: The Connected School: A Small Rural School Uses Sophisticated Teaching and Technology to Link to the World
Chapter 12: The Open School: A Formerly Open-Plan High School Reconsiders Its Past
Chapter 13: The District School: A Multicampus High School Provides Diverse Learning Opportunities
Chapter 14: The Tech School: A Middle School That Paces Technology’s Progress
Chapter 15: The Academy School: A High School That Uses the Flexibility of an Office Building to Serve Teaching and Learning
Epilogue: Concluding Thoughts
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
- Chapter 5 Essential Questions
- Figure 5.3: A Hypothetical Floor Plan for an Advisory Area
- Figure 5.4: An Example of a Teacher-Advisor Workstation
- Figure 5.5 An Example of an Individual Student Workstation
- Figure 5.6: An Example of a Flexible Student Workstation
- Figure 5.7 An Example of Different Breakout Furnishings
- Figure 5.8: Traditional School Days Governed by Periods and Bells
- Figure 5.9: Three Types of Traditional School Calendar Years
- Figure 5.10: An Advisory School Day Featuring Individualized, Self-Paced Studies
- Figure 5.11: Opportunities for Teacher Advisors and Students to Meet
- Figure 5.12: School Day with Individualized Self-Paced Studies
- Figure 5.13: An Eighteen-Month Snapshot of Student Course Loads
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
- Chapter 9 Essential Questions
- Figure 9.2: The Floor Plan for the Capital School’s First Floor
- Figure 9.3: The Floor Plan for the Capital School’s Second Floor
- Figure 9.4: The Floor Plan for the Capital School’s Third Floor
- Figure 9.7: The Capital School Provides Room for Advisory Areas with Nonload-Bearing Walls Removed
Chapter 10
- Chapter 10 Essential Questions
- Figure 10.3: Existing Floor Plan for the Green School
- Figure 10.4: Modified Floor Plan for the Green School
- Figure 10.5: The Green School’s Advisory Pods Have Ample Flexibility
Chapter 11
- Chapter 11 Essential Questions
- Figure 11.2: The Existing Floor Plan for the Connected School
- Figure 11.3: Modified Floor Plan for the Connected School
- Figure 11.4: The Connected School’s Advisory Areas Are Interconnected to Preserve a Sense of Community
Chapter 12
- Chapter 12 Essential Questions
- Figure 12.2: The Open School’s First Floor
- Figure 12.3: The Open School’s Second Floor
- Figure 12.4: The Open School’s Third Floor
- Figure 12.6: Modified Second-Floor Advisories
- Figure 12.7: Workstations in Advisory Areas Are Highly Flexible Due to the Large, Open Spaces That House Them
Chapter 13
- Chapter 13 Essential Questions
- Figure 13.4: The Floor Plan for the District School’s First Floor
- Figure 13.5: The Floor Plan for the District School’s Second Floor
- Figure 13.7: The New Tech School’s Original Plan as an Elementary School
- Figure 13.8: The New Tech School’s Revised Design as a High School
- Figure 13.9: The District School’s Modified Floor Plan for the First Floor
- Figure 13.10: The District School’s Modified Floor Plan for the Second Floor
- Figure 13.12: Modified Spaces for Business, Finance, and Law Academy
Chapter 14
- Chapter 14 Essential Questions
- Figure 14.2: The Tech School’s Existing Floor Plan
- Figure 14.5: The Modified Floor Plan for the Tech School
- Figure 14.7: Modified Spaces to Reduce the Library’s Footprint and Create Space for Advisories
Chapter 15
- Chapter 15 Essential Questions
- Figure 15.4: The Academy School’s Existing First-Level Floor Plan
- Figure 15.5: The Academy School’s Existing Second-Level Floor Plan
- Figure 15.6: The Academy School’s Existing Third-Level Floor Plan
- Figure 15.7: Our Modified Floor Plan for the Academy School First Floor
- Figure 15.8: Our Modified Floor Plan for the Academy School Second Floor
- Figure 15.9: Our Modified Floor Plan for the Academy School Third Floor
- Figure 15.10: A Detailed Illustration of the Second-Floor Arrangement
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
WEBSITES
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
- Bretford
- Canvas
- Coursera
- Drupal
- eBooks.com
- EdSurge
- Education Elements
- EdX
- Google Books
- Haworth
- Herman Miller
- Instructure
- Khan Academy
- Knewton
- Knoll
- Learning Registry
- Moodle
- Questia
- Schoology
- Solution Tree
- Steelcase Store
- Udemy
- VS America
Chapter 11
Epilogue
