This manual provides a detailed simulation analysis of a variety of energy conservation measures (ECMs) with the intent of giving educational facility design teams in Florida a basis for decision making. The manual's three sections cover energy efficiency design considerations that appear throughout the following design processes: schematic…

This document presents recommended facility specifications for the Milton J. Brecht Elementary School (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) designed to contribute to children's learning through the application of multiple intelligence theory and more recently emerging brain based learning knowledge and theory. The report examines the grade levels to be…

This paper examines four key elements in the designing-for-all-children concept for school environments. Designing-for-all-children designs acknowledge that children pass through differing, yet recognizable, stages of development; and that children need usable environments free from physical and social barriers. Key elements address equitable use,…

This booklet provides best practice recommendations for building functional and frugal schools in Florida. Seventeen best practice construction recommendations are addressed, including recommendations for sitework, concrete, masonry, metals, wood and plastics, thermal and moisture protection, doors and windows, finishes, equipment, furnishings,…

This publication describes options for designing and equipping middle and high school music education suites and suggests means of gaining community support for including full service music suites in new and renovated facilities. It covers the basic music suite, practice rooms, small ensemble rehearsal rooms, recording/MIDI (musical instrument…

This booklet explores various ways that environmental learning opportunities can be created at elementary schools by utilizing school facilities and surrounding school grounds. The booklet's first two chapters present tips that can help educators determine a school grounds' environmental condition. There is advice that educators can use to develop…

This guide contains suggested criteria for planning, designing, and renovating Head Start centers so that they are safe, child-oriented, developmentally appropriate, beautiful, environmentally sensitive, and functional. The content is based on the U.S. General Services Administration's Child Care Center Design Guide, PBS-P140, which was intended…

This guide provides information on how to create schools that provide better learning environments for students and teachers, cost less to operate, and help protect the environment. The guide is organized into three core sections. The first provides an overview and two interrelated discussions on what is a high performance school building and why…

This paper discusses the components of key spaces found within elementary and secondary school science facilities, and highlights the common design features that facilitate quality science instruction in these areas. Three educational trends that have shaped today's school science education are also examined. Common design features highlighted…

The new Freedom High School at Morganton, North Carolina, is a flowing, curvilinear building that houses both general and occupational education curriculums. (For more information on this facility see American School & University, vol. 46, no. 6, pp22-24 February 1974, and CEFP Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp4-6 January-February 1974.) (Author/MF)

The parents of the school children at the First Montessori School in Atlanta, Georgia, not only raised money for the new school facility, but actually helped construct it. (Author)

An interview with Richard Fleischman, an architect, who thinks most school buildings are dull and deficient in qualities that arouse the spirit and emotion of their inhabitants. Bellflower Elementary school in Mentor, Ohio, designed by Fleischman, is built of earth with trees and two cobblestone streets inside. (Author/MLF)

The medical profession was enormously influential in initiating a virtual revolution in English school design during the years before the First World War, working for the demise of the central-hall school and for the popularization of more spacious schools. (Author)

Locally produced brick and Idaho White Pine laminated wood are used in building a combination gymnasium/shop constructed to withstand climatic extremes. (MF)

Lesley College's new complex is a urban academic village'' of residences, library, auditorium, classrooms and supportive facilities. (Editor)