{"product_id":"blueprint-for-tomorrow-redesigning-schools-for-student-centered-learning-9781612507040","title":"Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe United States has about $2 trillion tied up in aging school facilities.\u003c\/b\u003e School districts throughout the country spend about $12 billion every year keeping this infrastructure going. Yet almost all of the new money we pour into school facilities reinforces an existing--and obsolete--model of schooling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBlueprint for Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, Prakash Nair--one of the world's leading school designers--explores the hidden messages that our school facilities and classrooms convey and advocates for the \"alignment\" of the design of places in which we teach and learn with twenty-first-century learning goals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlueprint for Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e provides simple, affordable, and versatile ideas for adapting or redesigning school spaces to support student-centered learning. In particular, the author focuses on ways to use current spending to modify existing spaces, and explains which kinds of adaptations offer the biggest return in terms of student learning. The book is organized by area--from classrooms to cafeterias--and is richly illustrated throughout, including \"before and after\" features, \"smart idea\" sidebars, and \"do now\" suggestions for practical first steps. It outlines key principles for designing spaces that support today's learning needs and includes tools to help educators evaluate the educational effectiveness of their own spaces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlueprint for Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e will open educators' eyes to the ways that architecture and learning are entwined and will challenge them to rethink the ways they teach and work together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrakash Nair\u003c\/b\u003e is the president of Fielding Nair International (FNI), a renowned international architectural firm that specializes in the design of innovative schools. FNI has consultations in forty-three countries on six continents. Prakash is a futurist, a visionary planner, an architect, and one of the world's leading change agents in education and school design. He has helped dozens of communities globally to align their physical space with their pedagogical needs. He is the recipient of several international awards, including the prestigious CEFPI MacConnell Award, the top honor worldwide for school design. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He has written extensively in leading national and international journals. His work has been published in \u003ci\u003eEducation Week\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSchool Planning and Management\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eSchool Business Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSchool Construction News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEdutopia\u003c\/i\u003e, Annenberg Institute's \u003ci\u003eVUE\u003c\/i\u003e, OECD's \u003ci\u003eProgramme on Educational Building\u003c\/i\u003e, the United Kingdom's \u003ci\u003eSchools for Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Australian Education Union's \u003ci\u003eProfessional Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeacher: The National Education Magazine of Australia\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Rethink!--Ideas for Inspiring School Library Design\u003c\/i\u003e. He also coauthored, with Randall Fielding, the landmark publication \u003ci\u003eThe Language of School Design\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He has been interviewed many times by print, radio, and television media and is a regular speaker and keynote presenter at international education conferences. You can learn more about Prakash Nair and the projects featured in this book by visiting http: \/\/FieldingNair.com, or contact him at Prakash@FieldingNair.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harvard Education PR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856033878290,"sku":"9781612507040","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6e721b56-5d34-41fe-a2ab-79286f17d7c2.jpg?v=1737493283","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blueprint-for-tomorrow-redesigning-schools-for-student-centered-learning-9781612507040","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}