Steve Crane, FAIA, NCARB, REFP, and
Jeanne Jackson, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, VCBO Architecture, Salt Lake City

      Discover the power of small learning communities to transform academic outcomes by increasing engagement, academic performance, self-esteem, and identity; enhancing participation and inspiration; and developing meaningful student/teacher relationships. Create engagement between the educational process, end-users, and the facility-ultimately inspiring the one out of every five Americans who spend the day in a school.

Learning objectives:

• Review case studies to discover the latest concepts for new and innovative educational facility design
• Develop a resource inventory to engage clients and communities and change the educational facility paradigm
• Discover new, age-irrelevant ideas of how facilities can influence and encourage personal and academic growth.