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Linking Learning and School Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas

George Copa
New Designs for Learning
Salem, Oregon

Source: George H. Copa, PhD, Director, New Designs for Learning, Salem Oregon. Contact at copag@oregonstate.edu or 503-580-5997.

Slides
1. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning
  • Engagement
  • Personalization
  • Connectivity
  • Authenticity
  • Technological Enhancement
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Facilitation
  • Accountability
  • Equity
  • Accessibility
  • Investment

Source: George H. Copa, PhD, Director, New Designs for Learning, Salem Oregon. Contact at copag@oregonstate.edu or 503-580-5997.

2. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: International Phenomenon
  • Australia
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Holland
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Portugal
  • Singapore
  • Spain
  • Thailand
  • United kingdom
  • United States

On rating of one (no importance) to seven (very important), the range of mean rating was 5.0 to 6.1.

3. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
  • Engagement
  • Personalization
  • Connectivity
  • Authenticity
  • Technological Enhancement
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Facilitation
  • Accountability
  • Equity
  • Accessibility
  • Investment
4. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
  • Engagement
  • Personalization
  • Connectivity
  • Authenticity
5. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Meaning
  • Learner inspired (feel wonder, shelter), trusted, understood
  • Learner as motivated
  • Involved in deciding (help make rules, goals, ways, places, spaces), choice
  • Active - mind, body, and spirit
  • Attention to prior learning
  • Connects to interests, experiences, and talents
6. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Meaning

Photograph of a small child trying to tie a shoe

7. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Contradictions

Photograph of a classroom with students in rows

8. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Contradictions

Example from your experience?

9. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment

Student Voice

Photograph of Students in the library. Southern Career and Technical Center, Evansville, IN.

10. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment

Informal learning.

Photograph of students in the cafeteria. MET, Providence, Rhode Island.

11. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment

Meaningful learning

Photograph of students in an outdoor classroom planting trees.

12. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment

Alive, exciting, bright, open

Photographs of the Advanced Technology Center in Canby, Oregon.

13. Emerging Ideas Reshaping learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment

Example from your experience?

14. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
  • Engagement
  • Personalization
  • Connectivity
  • Authenticity
15. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Meaning
  • Each and every, one at a time, all
  • Learner-centered, niche for each
  • Known/advocated for
  • Responsive to diversity
  • Wrap-around support
  • Multiple ways to learn
  • Self-directed, owned by learner
  • Differentiated
16. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Contradictions

Grading on a curve

17. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Contradictions

Photographs of lockers

18. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Contradictions

Photograph of classroom with backpacks on the ground due to no storage.

19. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Personalization -- Contradictions

Examples from your experience?

20. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Personalization -- Supporting Environment

Small Schools - MET in Providence, Rhode Island

Photographs of the same school.

21. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Supporting Environment

Personal Spaces

Photograph of student cubicles from the School for Environmental Studies, Apple Valley, MN

22. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Supporting Environment

Responding to Diversity

Photograph of the Navajo Preparatory School, Famington, New Mexico. Photograph by Thompson Pollari Studio.

23. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Supporting Environment

Choice, variety, changing

Photograph of the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.

24. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Personalization -- Supporting Environment

Examples from your experience?

25. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
  • Engagement
  • Personalization
  • Connectivity
  • Authenticity
26. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Meaning
  • Relationships
  • Pathways, role-ness (not role-less-ness)
  • Team and community
  • Systems and networks and partnerships
  • Not alone, social
  • Shared, interactive, intimate, equitable
  • Cooperation/collaboration
  • Integrated/linked
  • Informal and formal
  • Local and global
27. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Contradictions

Photograph of a field with school in background.

28. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Contradictions

Drawing of a typical high school with parking lots and sports fields.

29. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Drawing of the 21st Century High School with connectivity to the larger community .

30. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Contradictions

Example from your experiences?

31. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Learning together, growing forever; community development

Community Learning Campus, Olds, Alberta, Canada

Picture of Community Learning Campus cover of booklet.

32. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Learning together, growing forever; community development

Community Learning Campus, Olds, Alberta, Canada

Blueprint of the Community Learning Campus.

33. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Learning together, growing forever; community development

Community Learning Campus, Olds, Alberta, Canada

Blueprint of the Community Learning Campus.

34. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Connecting learning and working

Applied Technology Center, Montebello, California

Picture of the Poster Learning Working the Applied Technology Center

35. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Learning Working

Learning Expectations:

  • Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making
  • Social and civic responsibility
  • Interpersonal relations and team work
  • Work ethic
  • Organization and time management
  • Self-confidence and awareness

Applied Technology Center, Montebello, CA

36. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Learning Working

Learning Process

  • Engaging and real
  • Active and experiential
  • Flexibility and variety
  • Industry involved
  • Integrating technology
  • Innovative staffing

Applied Technology Center, Montebello, CA

37. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Learning Working

Diagram from the school, to the district, to the county, to the state, to the Western United States, to the United States, to the World.

38. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Learning Working

Blueprint of a supporting school environment.

Applied Technology Center, Montebello, CA

39. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity - Supporting Environment

Learning Working

Map of the larger community around the Applied Technology Center

Applied Technology Center, Montebello, CA

40. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Global learning

Photograph of students helping others

School for Environmental Studies, Apple Valley, MN

41. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Student teams

Photograph of students at a learning pod with computers.

High Tech High, San Diego, CA

42. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment

Staff Teams

Photograph of teachers work room

School for Environmental Studies, Apple Valley, MN

43. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environments

Network, Pattern of Settings

Pictures of pattern settings.

44. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environments

Example from your experiences?

45. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
  • Engagement
  • Personalization
  • Connectivity
  • Authenticity
46. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Meaning
  • Real, meaningful
  • Construction, not instruction
  • Production, not reproduction
  • Real projects, places, problems
  • Public performance
  • Value-added
  • Community-based
  • Integrated
  • Experiential
47. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Contradictions
  • Predefined problems
  • Answers in books
  • Isolated from community
  • No resources
  • Move to new task and work environment every hour
48. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Contradictions

Example from your experiences?

49. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments

Community as School

Ariel photograph of the city of Chetek, Wisconsin

Chetek Area Schools, Chetek, Wisconsin

50. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments

Downtown School, Minneapolis, MN

  • Business
  • Arts and Entertainment
  • Government
  • Education
  • The River

Blueprint of the Downtown School and Off-site learning settings.

51. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments

Real, Changing

Photographs of the Ville de Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada

52. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environment

Resemble workplaces; project based, cooperative, interdisciplinary

Photograph of a classroom at the MET, Providence, Rhode Island

53. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments

Provides valued services

Photograph of students in the river.

School for Environmental Studies, Apple Valley, MN

54. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments

Used by the community.

Entrepreneurial Schools, Kawasaki City, Japan

Photograph of equipment and blueprint of school layout

55. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environment

Example from your experiences?

56. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning
  • Engagement
  • Personalization
  • Connectivity
  • Authenticity
  • Technological Enhancement
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Facilitation
  • Accountability
  • equity
  • Accessibility
  • Investment
57. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Relation Among Ideas - Convergence? Synergy?

Bubble drawing of connectivity, authenticity, accountability, lifelong, facilitated, personalization, technology enhanced

58. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Linking Learning and School Design

Drawing of learning plan going into facility plan - time and intensity

59. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Elements of Learning Plan
  • Learning context
  • Learning audience
  • Learning signature
  • Learning expectations
  • Learning process
  • Learning organization
  • Learning staffing
  • Learning partnerships
  • Learning environment
  • Learning accountability
  • Learning celebration
  • Learning finance

Arrow going down

60. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Elements of Learning Plan
  • Learning context
  • Learning audience
  • Learning signature
  • Learning expectations
  • Learning process
  • Learning organization
  • Learning staffing
  • Learning partnerships
  • Learning environment
  • Learning accountability
  • Learning celebration
  • Learning finance

Two arrows pointing up and down

61. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Linking Learning and School Design

Drawing of learning plan, facility plan, curricular plan, staffing plan, accountability plan - time and intensity

62. Linking Learning and School Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas

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Colorful picture wavelike

63. Linking Learning and School Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas - The Future

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64. Linking Learning and School Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas - The Future
  • Ubiquitous
  • Creativity

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65. Linking Learning and school Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas

Contact Information

George H. Copa, PhD, Director
New Designs for Learning
6058 Riverdale Road South
Salem, Oregon
503-580-5997
copag@oregonstate.edu

Questions:   Shannon Farrell-Hart | sfarrell@cde.ca.gov | 916-323-3923
Last Reviewed: Tuesday, October 29, 2024