An increasingly complex global environment, with its corresponding international connectedness as well as competition, challenges educators to rethink curriculum, instruction and assessment through the lens of the 21st Century. High-skilled, technology-driven jobs and careers require individuals who possess deep content knowledge as well as soft skills, including the capacity for critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, collaboration, cultural competence and global awareness. The CEFPI/SDSU Advanced Certificate Program introduces students to a learner-centered approach to school facility planning, provoking thought and prompting educational leaders, planners, designers and construction managers to give careful consideration to the educational, developmental, psychological and social needs of learners. Together, cohort members explore the various aspects of educational facility planning as a means to articulate and advance educational purpose.