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Ilana Marder-Eppstein – Healthy Schools Campaign, 2025
This new report documents 10 years of Space to Grow, celebrating this dynamic program's significant impact on Chicago schools, neighborhoods and the environment. From transforming schoolyards into vibrant, multifunctional spaces that foster learning, play, connection to nature, and community engagement, to helping mitigate flooding, Space to Grow…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Space Utilization, Playgrounds
Brenna Hassinger-Das; Katelyn Fletcher – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
Since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person learning, fears about children's learning loss remain a primary concern for parents, teachers, and policymakers. These concerns, combined with longstanding issues of inequity regarding children's access to learning opportunities have sparked widespread discussion about how to reimagine education.…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Environment, Space Utilization, Place Based Education
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Benade, Leon – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
The role played by innovative educational environments to support learning for the 21st century has attracted the interest of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development at the global governance level and at the national policy level internationally. This article draws on global, European and Australasian research and data from a…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Parents
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2023
In collaboration with their local government and community partners, schools can take a proactive approach to crime prevention as a part of developing, implementing, and maintaining school emergency operations plans (EOPs) using the "Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (School Guide)" [ED571878]. In…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, School Community Relationship, Emergency Programs
Hamaty, George; Lines, David C. – School Planning and Management, 1999
Examines the educational-facility-planning issues for restructuring schools to meet the future demands of students and educational programs. Issues discussed include the educational environment, building access, technology and its effect on the learning environment, specialty areas and ancillary space requirements, and community involvement. (GR)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning
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Taylor, Anne – Educational Leadership, 1993
Reflecting new visions of learning, educators and architects are creating "three-dimensional textbooks" that use the learning environment as a teaching tool. In a planning process called architectural programing, the community and those who will occupy the building are consulted concerning developmental needs, aesthetic preferences, and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment