E71: Designing Other School Spaces - a podcast by Lu Gerlach

This week, I’m excited to report to you from New London, CT.  It’s a beautiful seaside town with a lot of history in its six square miles.  I’m here working with a PYP school to restructure their library according to the six transdisciplinary themes, as well as genrefying their novels, creating a lower primary section, and a place for the learner profile and key concepts to come to life.  This has been such a fun project, because I’m creating a space where learners will become readers.  Isn’t this the best part of teaching?  

This process has sparked an internal debate that led to a singular question.  When thinking about learning space design, do we consider other spaces besides the homeroom class?  I would venture to say, most of us don’t, which is something I want to examine in this podcast episode. 

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