October 2017: School Administrator
Fresh thinking about classroom setup and facility design
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A View of Facilities from Both Sides of the TableThree guiding principles for getting the best school facility design. The author worked for years in central administration before going to work for a school design firm.
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Why Engage Your Community in Facility Projects?Three guiding principles for getting the best school facility design. The author worked for years in central administration before going to work for a school design firm.
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A Strategic Role for School Finance OfficersEvolving practices are bolstering the academic side of the ledger for school business leaders in the central office.
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An Unbiased Tool for Linking Budgetary Decisions to AchievementEvolving practices are bolstering the academic side of the ledger for school business leaders in the central office.
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Buyout ClausesSuperintendents with a severance provision in their contract.
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A Threat on RecordWhat to do about a respected principal caught on a surreptitious audio recording threatening a 14-year-old special education student?
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Connections Pushing Our Professional GrowthThe driver for new learning by staff comes through Twitter, blogs, online workshops and Instagram — tools with a social linkage to like-minded educators.
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Transgender Employee Rights in SchoolsThe abrupt revelation the day Mr. Sconce, the veteran science teacher, showed up as Ms. Scot. How to address gender transitions among staff.
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Your New School Board Member: A Previous Superintendent
At first glance, it’s a situation with the appearance of a train wreck waiting to happen. But that’s not always so.
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Computer Science for Every Student
A superintendent says an effective K-12 computer science program should give students multiple pathways and entry points.
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Where Will Our Students Stand Without Impact Aid?Threats to federal support could sever the cultural ties for this superintendent’s Native American students.
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On Computers, Fish and Learning
Are educators inadvertently discouraging critical thinking by students?
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How To Define SpaceWHEN WE TALK about space in education, we often consider that area inside the four walls of the classroom or the spaces that form what we call a school campus.
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Space as a Function of the MindAASA’s director sheds no tears for the disappearance of anchored classroom desks and chairs for students.
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Vera Turner on Professional LearningThe AASA staff member who manages externally funded projects that raise professional calibre.
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Starting Off on Good FootingThe superintendent of Louisiana’s West Feliciana Parish Schools found big shoes to be filled.
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Editor's Note
Reconsidering Space Use
Whenever I think about the impact of school facilities on learning, I’m drawn back to my days as a freshman entering Auburn High School in my hometown of Auburn, N.Y. In fall 1970, about 3,000 teenagers were brought together for the first time, following the merger of East, Central and West high schools and the city’s Catholic secondary school, in a spanking new, three-floor building that had the modern amenities of its day.
That new facility made a marked difference on many young lives, academically, socially and culturally — a point referenced by some of the contributors to this issue of our magazine.
We’re pleased to offer you the insights and advice from some of the more experienced voices on the subject of facilities in K-12 learning today. They include Heidi Hayes Jacobs, author of Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments; Prakash Nair, a school architect specialist and author of Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning; and Sarah Woodhead, who worked for three school districts before moving into the private-sector school design field.
We hope their thinking might spark yours the next opportunity you have to construct or renovate a facility in your community.
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