DESIGN GUIDELINESOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

10/30/12

21st Century Classrooms Design Guidelines Kick-Off

Oakland Unified School District Design Guidelines

21st Century Classroom Design GuidelinesKick-Off Meeting

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Working Group Introduction

Design Guidelines + Ed Specs

Guiding Principles and Boundaries

Example: A Philosophical Approach - Georgia Institute of Technology’s Five Basic Principles of Classroom Design

Analysis: La Escuelita, Room A-139

Visioning Exercise

Next Steps

Define the key facility requirements for classrooms that support evolving pedagogies and technologies.

Feedback and adjustments

Support new vision for food and gardens to support teaching and learning

Enable school sites to effectively share facilities between community partners (e.g. health clinics) or multiple schools.

Facilities Master Plan

Baseline Ed Specs

Facilities, Buildings + Grounds, Custodial Services, and SGI

Ed Specs

•Grade-level based•Technical•Meets CA requirements

21st Century Class-Rooms

Shared Use

STEM

High Schools

Kitchens + Gardens

Trans-formations

Full Service Community District

Ensure that STEM facilities support hands-on project based learning.

Material Standards

•Material type-based

Design Guidelines

•Topic based•Graphical•Easy-to-understand

Quantify and evaluate the impacts of various site transformations to inform decision making at the district level.

Address the specific requirements of high school programs, including Career Tech, Linked Learning, etc...

Contractors and Builders

Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners

State of California

Educators, Administratorsand Parents

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Design Guidelines + Ed Specs

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21st Century ClassroomsGuiding Principles and Boundaries

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GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Classroom updates support teaching and learning

Facilities align with curricular and pedagogical development (Common Core)

Capability to support evolving uses of technology

BOUNDARIES

Focus on general-purpose classrooms

Unit of analysis is the classroom

Goal of this group is not to figure out how to implement programs, but to prepare facilities to enable them

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GIT’s 5 Basic Principles of Classroom Design

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1. Classrooms should facilitate student engagement

2. Classrooms should facilitate student collaboration

3. Classrooms should facilitate connections between teachers & students

4. Classrooms should incorporate appropriate technology

5. Classrooms should have flexible physical arrangement

Georgia Institute of Technology

Thanks to Caleb Cheung, Science Manager OUSD

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GIT’s 5 Basic Principles of Classroom Design

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Georgia Institute of Technology

1. Classrooms should facilitate student engagement

Node Chair by Steelcase

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GIT’s 5 Basic Principles of Classroom Design

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Georgia Institute of Technology

2. Classrooms should facilitate student collaboration

Harbor City School

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GIT’s 5 Basic Principles of Classroom Design

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Georgia Institute of Technology

3. Classrooms should facilitate connections between teachers & students

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GIT’s 5 Basic Principles of Classroom Design

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Georgia Institute of Technology

4. Classrooms should incorporate appropriate technology

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GIT’s 5 Basic Principles of Classroom Design

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Georgia Institute of Technology

5. Classrooms should have flexible physical arrangement

Flexible Classroom - University of Dayton

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AnalysisLa Escuelita Elementary School

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Oakland Unified School District Design Guidelines

AnalysisLa Escuelita Elementary School

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Yes. How so? No. Why not? Other

1. Facilitate Student Engagement

2. Facilitate Student Collaboration

3. Facilitate Connections between Teachers and Students

4. Incorporate Appropriate Technology

5. Flexible Physical Arrangement

Does this classroom fit GIT’s 5 Principles of Classroom Design?

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Visioning Exercise

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Successes in 2017

Actions in 2015

First Steps in 2012

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21st Century ClassroomsNext Steps

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Next Working Group Meeting - 12/4/12

Tuesday, 12/4/123:30 - 5:00 PMLocation TBD

Presentation of Draft Design Guidelines

One-on-one Meetings

MKThink will conduct one-on-one meetings with members of this group, as well as other interested members of the OUSD community

Website

Stay tuned: we will be creating a website for updates and resources on the 21st Century Classroom working group, as well as the other working groups