Effective classroom design is a crucial element in learning. Additionally, learning opportunities can be extended well beyond the classroom to create entire learning environments that support student success. Despite the transformations necessary to equip students with 21st-century skills, planners and decision-makers at education institutions continue to design classrooms and campuses that reflect outdated modes of teaching. Exploring educational space design using a "learning per square foot" concept can improve student success, creating a community of learning and strengthening the country's competitive position. Schools can think of furniture and furnishings in new ways. The need to transform education has a profound effect on the planning and use of space. Conversely, classroom design also can serve as an agent for effective changes in education, supporting a diversity of learning styles, as well as new teaching styles. Opportunities for learning go beyond the classroom, and good planning and space design can help harness them. It's important to integrate planning for both informal and formal spaces across a school or campus in an effort to establish an entire learning ecosystem, one that enables learning to take place anytime, anywhere.