学校的变革

This innovative facility solved community needs and enrollment growth while looking to the horizon for determining future student interests and skills. A total shift in culture occurred with an explosion of STEAM interest across the district. 受到行业和不断增长的职业需求的启发, the facility serves high school students and provides studios for K-8th grade experiential learning. 丰富的网站提供了线索, 湿地区域, 和自然溪, 所有预期的日常学习环境.

原为小学, this school of choice was strategically retrofitted into a high-tech school that responds to the facility’s new mission. 重新焕发活力的校园展示了时尚, collegiate-like人格, appealing to 16 to 21-year-olds who seek to catch up on graduation credits or graduate in less than four years. The new program concentrates on active student engagement, functionality and community. The school offers CTE classes equipped with state-of-the-art technologies.

The new addition blends with the 2012 addition and takes architectural cues from and remains sensitive to the historic original structure. The three-story classroom addition provides 24 teaching spaces, 一个新的比赛体育馆与1,容纳500人的能力, 竞争法院, two practice courts and support locker rooms for Athletics. 除了, 艺术陶艺工作室, 一个新的乐队大厅, and Engineering and Robotics labs were significant upgrades to support STEAM focused learning.

这个项目是新的,500 square-foot Performing Arts Center for East Central ISD outside of San Antonio. 中心空间是最先进的,000个座位的多功能礼堂, with teaching and production space to support choir, 音乐录音和戏剧节目. 它还包括一个3,500平方英尺的“白色盒子,“一个单独的, long-span daylit performance and teaching space; the first of its kind in a K-12 environment.

教育工作者, 工作人员, and administrators developed the design using their unique experiences to influence the look and feel of each space. The facility enables learning and innovative services to be delivered to more than 130 ISDs across 10 Texas counties, 服务超过865,000名学生和106名学生,000年学校员工. 这个友好的, technology-rich building transforms and adapts according to the needs of the moment, allowing for a truly flexible and collaborative professional learning environment.

A kinetic and collaborative culture was retrofitted into a 1980s middle school by molding fragmented space into a dynamic and cohesive learning environment. 错层设计的特点一直存在, elevated by a new 2-story commons that anchors the campus and creates a multipurpose student union. Removal of walls, addition of gathering space and use of teacher design labs create flexibility. Windows and interior glazing connect to nature and filter light through a previously dense space.

This elementary school was designed for STEM and project-based learning. Aesthetics pull from secondary education facilities while maintaining age appropriateness. 一切行动, 创建一个交互式的环境, 以科技为导向，为年轻学习者带来乐趣. 与自然的连接很普遍.

Features include: media center and reading nooks for research; robotics arena, collaboration space and maker space for prototyping; and learning stair and outdoor gathering for presentation.

The original high school, built in 1954, was initially small because of the low neighborhood density. 随着岁月的流逝, each addition was designed to meet specific needs without considering the overall campus layout. 这导致了连接性的缺乏, 在多栋建筑之间走很长一段路, 还有一些安全问题. 这一愿景,141 SF project includes a new comprehensive high school, which includes renovating and incorporating the recently constructed science wing.

This is a new 2-story elementary school with a focus on 21st Century skills. The new school environment focuses on collaboration, 教学, 学习环境的灵活性.

A district wanted to re-imagine its elementary prototype. They began with a question: “What does the school of the future mean to you?”在一起, 近200名学生, educators and district leaders envisioned a school with no boundaries, 总是展示学习的地方. 生态设计元素, 连接到室外, 灵活的大小学习空间, 社区等级和一个标志, treehouse-inspired commons create a unique and inspirational academic experience.

In 2018, Texas Instruments awarded a grant to create a “STEM for ALL” concept that instigated a symbiotic relationship between the school and the industry. With this support and with 2016 bond reserves the district converted an existing space into a STEM Exploration Center for for ALL students in the high school feeder pattern. 这个STEM中心现在招收了12名学生,000 students each year and provides professional development for teachers, so they develop competency and confidence in STEM teaching.

新的中间学校, 等级3 - 5, designed for maximum sustainability and to facilitate the District’s “4Cs” teaching methods. The school is subdivided into three equally-sized Small Learning Communities (SLCs), each with its own classrooms and breakout spaces on two floors. Students stay together in the same SLC all three years in this school. Each SLC overlooks the central two-story Commons and Media Center, and all can access covered outdoor learning areas on both first and second floors.