What should secondary schools look like in the future?
I wrote a post Schools of the Future back in January 2010 where I talked about our District’s Conceptual Design Group’s mission and asked for input on school design. Today our Design Group met to discuss secondary school and specifically the replacement of Centennial Secondary school ( website ) established in 1967. Schools have been designed for many years to support a very teacher centric model of education. The architect took us through options for locating the school, fields, and parking on the site – lots of pragmatic stuff. Then we started looking at some innovative designs to influence the future Centennial. We first looked at the proposed design for the new University Hill Secondary school in the Vancouver School Board on the University of British Columbia campus – the school is being replaced. Some of the design features we found interesting include: envisioned as a project based, student centric, collaborative teaching, learner engagin...