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Get Active: Redesigning Learning Spaces for Student Success

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Get Active is a practical guide to inform your thinking about how best to design schools and classrooms to support learning in a connected, digital world.

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clarity-innovations.com Reimagining Learning Spaces “In your hands is a ticket to understanding the power of an active learning space. These are places that help students develop the skills they need in the digital age— communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking—and where they become actively involved in the learning process. “ Sean Corcorran, General Manager, Steelcase Education Forward, Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success 3
clarity-innovations.com Reimagining Learning Spaces “... [C]reating these vibrant spaces and environments today will make classrooms more enduring, adaptable, and accommodating for what learning will look like tomorrow. I hope the information and insights provided in this book will help you and your school or district make the important first steps toward bringing the promise of active learning to your students and communities. “ Paige Johnson Education Strategist, Intel Corporation ISTE Board of Directors Introduction, Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success 4
clarity-innovations.com The Authors 5 Dale Basye is an award-winning writer and co-author of Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology as well as the author of the Circles of Heck series. Dr. Peggy Grant is a senior content developer for Clarity Innovations. She taught junior and senior high English and reading before earning her PhD in literacy education. She is co-author of Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology. Stefanie Hausman has been a classroom teacher, a teacher coach, a teacher trainer, an education writer, and is currently the Content Manager at Clarity Innovations. Tod Johnston, a classroom teacher for ten years, focused on creating flexible and student-centered learning experiences for elementary and middle school students both in the United States and abroad.
clarity-innovations.com Book Features 6 Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success includes features designed to inform, inspire, and help educators to re-think classroom and school environments:  Discussions of theory and practice about student achievement, technology, and flexible learning spaces  Practical advice for redesigning learning spaces from recognized experts in the educational field
clarity-innovations.com Book Features 7  Case studies of reimagined learning environments from across the country.  Learning activities and discussion prompts to guide educators to further exploration and application of the concepts addressed in the book
clarity-innovations.com PedagogySpace Technology Active Learning Active Learning Defined 8 Get Active views education from an active learning perspective. This diagram from Steelcase Education illustrates how technology, pedagogy, and space all contribute to a wide range of approaches that place students at the center of the learning process.
clarity-innovations.com Table of Contents 9 Chapter 1: Learning Spaces of the Future - Past, Present, and Future Learning - Preparing Students for the Future Workplace - Digital-Age Learners and Technology - Designing Learning Spaces for Digital-Age Students
clarity-innovations.com 10 Chapter 2: Teaching and learning in the Digital Age - Learning Spaces for Digital-Age Learning Models - Preparing Students for the Future Workplace - Components of an Active Learning Space - Learning Spaces for Digital-Age Skills - Technology Integration - Learning Spaces and Academic Achievement
clarity-innovations.com 11 Chapter 3: Reimagining the Classroom - The Impact of Effective Learning Spaces - Spaces within a Space - Classroom Furniture - Furnishing Today’s Classroom - Accessorizing Chapter 4: Redesigning Your Classroom - A Process for Redesigning Your Classroom - Repurposing Furniture - Overcoming Challenges - Managing Active Learning Spaces
clarity-innovations.com 12 Chapter 5: Schools for the Future - Digital-Age School Architecture - Technology Infrastructure - Sustainability - Safety and Security - Beyond the Classroom
clarity-innovations.com 13 Chapter 6: Digital Spaces for Learning - The Concept of “Classroom” - The Student Learning Experience as Design Driver - Characteristics of a Digital Learning Space - Tools for Digital Space Creation - Toward a Next Generation Ecology of Spaces - The Impact of Active Digital-Age Learning Spaces
clarity-innovations.com 14 Chapter 7: Planning for Active Learning Spaces - Engage and Educate Teachers - Steps to School Redesign - Setting the Stage for Active Learning - Develop - Implement - An Iterative Process - The End… Or Just the Beginning? Appendix A: ISTE Standards
clarity-innovations.com Case Study: The Academy in Santa Ana, California 15 “The Academy is engaging kids like no other school I’ve ever seen. But engagement through neat and engaging learning spaces coupled with phenomenal teachers is, unfortunately, not the traditional formula. That’s why we have a 97% attendance record: kids really want to learn this way..” Anthony Saba, Head of School
clarity-innovations.com 16 As the last and 39th school in Poway unified School District, Design39 is based on Design Thinking for learning experiences within active learning spaces, and all of the spaces reflect that mission. One type of flexible space at this school is collaboratories that provide space for collaboration, individual work, and presentations. Case Study: Design39Campus
clarity-innovations.com Professional Learning with Get Active 17 Educators apply what they are reading to their specific situations in Your Turns, Discussions, and Reflections.
clarity-innovations.com Read more about active learning spaces: 18 www.k12blueprint.com/get-active.

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Get Active: Redesigning Learning Spaces for Student Success

  • 3. clarity-innovations.com Reimagining Learning Spaces “In your hands is a ticket to understanding the power of an active learning space. These are places that help students develop the skills they need in the digital age— communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking—and where they become actively involved in the learning process. “ Sean Corcorran, General Manager, Steelcase Education Forward, Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success 3
  • 4. clarity-innovations.com Reimagining Learning Spaces “... [C]reating these vibrant spaces and environments today will make classrooms more enduring, adaptable, and accommodating for what learning will look like tomorrow. I hope the information and insights provided in this book will help you and your school or district make the important first steps toward bringing the promise of active learning to your students and communities. “ Paige Johnson Education Strategist, Intel Corporation ISTE Board of Directors Introduction, Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success 4
  • 5. clarity-innovations.com The Authors 5 Dale Basye is an award-winning writer and co-author of Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology as well as the author of the Circles of Heck series. Dr. Peggy Grant is a senior content developer for Clarity Innovations. She taught junior and senior high English and reading before earning her PhD in literacy education. She is co-author of Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology. Stefanie Hausman has been a classroom teacher, a teacher coach, a teacher trainer, an education writer, and is currently the Content Manager at Clarity Innovations. Tod Johnston, a classroom teacher for ten years, focused on creating flexible and student-centered learning experiences for elementary and middle school students both in the United States and abroad.
  • 6. clarity-innovations.com Book Features 6 Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success includes features designed to inform, inspire, and help educators to re-think classroom and school environments:  Discussions of theory and practice about student achievement, technology, and flexible learning spaces  Practical advice for redesigning learning spaces from recognized experts in the educational field
  • 7. clarity-innovations.com Book Features 7  Case studies of reimagined learning environments from across the country.  Learning activities and discussion prompts to guide educators to further exploration and application of the concepts addressed in the book
  • 8. clarity-innovations.com PedagogySpace Technology Active Learning Active Learning Defined 8 Get Active views education from an active learning perspective. This diagram from Steelcase Education illustrates how technology, pedagogy, and space all contribute to a wide range of approaches that place students at the center of the learning process.
  • 9. clarity-innovations.com Table of Contents 9 Chapter 1: Learning Spaces of the Future - Past, Present, and Future Learning - Preparing Students for the Future Workplace - Digital-Age Learners and Technology - Designing Learning Spaces for Digital-Age Students
  • 10. clarity-innovations.com 10 Chapter 2: Teaching and learning in the Digital Age - Learning Spaces for Digital-Age Learning Models - Preparing Students for the Future Workplace - Components of an Active Learning Space - Learning Spaces for Digital-Age Skills - Technology Integration - Learning Spaces and Academic Achievement
  • 11. clarity-innovations.com 11 Chapter 3: Reimagining the Classroom - The Impact of Effective Learning Spaces - Spaces within a Space - Classroom Furniture - Furnishing Today’s Classroom - Accessorizing Chapter 4: Redesigning Your Classroom - A Process for Redesigning Your Classroom - Repurposing Furniture - Overcoming Challenges - Managing Active Learning Spaces
  • 12. clarity-innovations.com 12 Chapter 5: Schools for the Future - Digital-Age School Architecture - Technology Infrastructure - Sustainability - Safety and Security - Beyond the Classroom
  • 13. clarity-innovations.com 13 Chapter 6: Digital Spaces for Learning - The Concept of “Classroom” - The Student Learning Experience as Design Driver - Characteristics of a Digital Learning Space - Tools for Digital Space Creation - Toward a Next Generation Ecology of Spaces - The Impact of Active Digital-Age Learning Spaces
  • 14. clarity-innovations.com 14 Chapter 7: Planning for Active Learning Spaces - Engage and Educate Teachers - Steps to School Redesign - Setting the Stage for Active Learning - Develop - Implement - An Iterative Process - The End… Or Just the Beginning? Appendix A: ISTE Standards
  • 15. clarity-innovations.com Case Study: The Academy in Santa Ana, California 15 “The Academy is engaging kids like no other school I’ve ever seen. But engagement through neat and engaging learning spaces coupled with phenomenal teachers is, unfortunately, not the traditional formula. That’s why we have a 97% attendance record: kids really want to learn this way..” Anthony Saba, Head of School
  • 16. clarity-innovations.com 16 As the last and 39th school in Poway unified School District, Design39 is based on Design Thinking for learning experiences within active learning spaces, and all of the spaces reflect that mission. One type of flexible space at this school is collaboratories that provide space for collaboration, individual work, and presentations. Case Study: Design39Campus
  • 17. clarity-innovations.com Professional Learning with Get Active 17 Educators apply what they are reading to their specific situations in Your Turns, Discussions, and Reflections.
  • 18. clarity-innovations.com Read more about active learning spaces: 18 www.k12blueprint.com/get-active.