Every day across this country thousands of tireless school leaders work against daunting obstacles to help educate our nation's youth (Rotherham, 2003). Educational leadership is an intricate profession. Like an elaborately woven quilt, it takes numerous hours, dedication, operational hands, an innovative thought process, a variety of threads and…

This document provides a framework of guiding principles and general steps addressing the construction of safer and more disaster resilient education facilities. It is aimed to be adapted to the local context and used to develop a context-specific plan to address a critical gap to reaching the Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development…

This paper proposes a multi-dimensional concept model of an ICT enabled classroom to highlight potential similarities and differences between where teachers perceive themselves relative to their learners. Some teachers and learners may be at the two dimensional text-book level, while others are operating in at a globalization level. Being armed…

In view of the cost of structural framing for school buildings, ten steel-framed schools are examined to review the economical advantages of steel for school construction. These schools do not resemble each other in size, shape, arrangement or unit cost; some are original in concept and architecture, and others are conservative. Cost and…

Student mobility is the phenomenon of students in grades K-12 changing schools for reasons other than customary promotion from elementary school to middle school or from middle school to high school. This non-promotional school change can occur during the school year or in the summer between school years. It may involve residential change, school…

Kern County Children and Families Commission (First 5 Kern) is funded by the Proposition 10 ballot initiative to support services for children prenatal to age five in California. The state revenue comes from an extra 50-cent tax on tobacco products, and is distributed according to the proportion of live births in each county. Following a…

As the oldest implementation of Web 2.0 technologies, blogs present an opportunity to understand how community college administrators are addressing two conundrums: conundrum of control and the conundrum of adaptability. These problems arise from the need of leaders to put organizational controls in place even as these controls limit the tool's…

A cable-supported fiberglass fabric structure contains everything from a gymnasium to an art area to a post office at LaVerne College in Pomona, California. (Author)

THIS GUIDE PROVIDES STEP BY STEP ASSISTANCE TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR A SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECT. THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE SCHOOL STAFF ARE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND MAKING STUDIES OF THE SCHOOL POPULATION. ADVISORY SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. THE FOLLOWING STEPS ARE AMONG THOSE CITED AS…

This booklet is intended to assist those planning nature centers to choose building designs appropriate for intended purposes. The publication presents a set of general interpretive building-site and design considerations compiled over years of experience in nature center design. These generalizations are complemented by examples of floor plans,…

A report based on the program participants of the Building Research Institute Conference in the fall of 1962 on school building research whose aim it is to make contributions to building science. Major topics discussed are--(1) definition of school building needs, (2) developing the stragegy for meeting future school building needs, (3)…

The article discusses how the wishes and needs of a university for better designed university buildings may be communicated to architects and engineers. The author describes his own experience with written program requirements and architect field studies, and reproduces a check list used by architect and university staff in a housing project. (FPO)

An architectural design competition for the conversion of an urban junior high school is described. The program emphasized development of--(1) space and flexibility to accommodate new educational concepts, (2) semi-autonomous sub-schools for different school population cross-sections, (3) enlarged resource amenities and guidance facilities, and…

The key element in the university master plan is a linear structure that preserves and defines existing green spaces, concentrates activity without violating established scale, and provides pedestrian links. (Author/MLF)

The Performing Arts fan-shaped hall at the University of Akron has been structurally and acoustically designed to accommodate audiences of varying sizes and performances ranging from symphonies to intimate theater. (Author/MF)