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Prakash Nair’s Keynote Presentation to Key Biscayne’s community stakeholders

Click here to see youtube Videos of Prakash Nair’s Keynote Presentation to Key Biscayne’s community stakeholders as they plan the first new Municipal Charter High School within this Island Paradise near Miami Beach, Florida. Presentation is titled: Best Practices in Education and Facilities Design:

Prakash Nair on School Design

Intended Consequences, 24 January 2008

“A great interview with a very interesting person.” Tim Holt interviews Prakash Nair for his regular podcasting series

Education 2020: From Knowledge to Wisdom (Full Video of Keynote address)

Baruch College Teaching and Technology Conference, 26 April 2006

Prakash Nair discusses the future of education and educational technology in the keynote address to the 2006 Baruch College Teaching and Technology Conference, City University of New York.

Visions of a Brave New Washington: Contest Shows the D.C. of 2108 Salvaging Decay For New Modes of Harnessing Water, Food, Energy

Washington Post, 16 January 2008

FNI Senior Planning Consultant Isaac Williams leads the team of faculty and students from University of Maryland, winners of the IBM Innovation Engineering Award at the History Channel/IBM/Infiniti “City of the Future” competition at Union Station, Washington DC.

Washington and Virginia Schools to Receive 2008 Architectural Awards from AASA

US Fed News, 4 January 2008
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FNI wins a citation award for design of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center, Minneapolis.

Schools for the Future: Design Proposals from Architectural Psychology

(To be published by Hogrefe & Huber in 2008)
Jeffery Lackney has contributed Chapter 6, A Design Language for Schools and Learning Communities to this international publication.

Local education gets attention

Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 2 January 2008

‘Celebrated international name in education’, Prakash Nair, credited in Cayman Islands’ presentation in London at the prestigious World Ministerial Seminar on Technology in Education.

Friends share mission of advocating for quality education

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, MN, 26 December 2007
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FNI Associate Tiffany Green speaks about her twin roles with FNI and the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) in Minneapolis

Worldwide Forecast 2008: Asia, Eastern Europe to See Heavy Investment in Educational Facilities

CEFPI e-News, December 2007

Randy Fielding consulted on worldwide school building trends

Randall Fielding is CEFPI 2007 Planner of the Year

CEFPI News Release, 18 October 2007

“Planner of the Year is the highest and most distinguished individual honor conferred by the international organization. It is presented annually to the individual whose professional facility planning activities have produced a significantly positive regional, national or international impact on educational facility planning.”

Spaces for Learning

Architecture Australia, September/October 2007

Prakash Nair listed as a partner in Victorian Government’s ‘vast’ education facilities investment program

Cayman Islands Ministry Blog

“Not education as usual — History in the making as the Cayman Islands take a holistic approach to the transformation of its entire government education system and blaze the trail towards building the ultimate 21^st century learning spaces.”

New Education offices at Countryside

Prakash Nair and Stephen Heppell

Randy Fielding, School Planner, wins international award

Cayman school campus designs set new benchmark for innovation

$122 million would revamp Middletown schools

The Providence Journal, RI, 21 November 2007
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FNI makes recommendations for Rhode Island district’s schools: “The plan, while certainly expensive, would be more beneficial to modern learning and more cost-effective than remodeling the district’s aging school buildings (to the tune of $108 million)”

1 campus, at last, for Duke School

The Herald-Sun, NC, 17 October 2007
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“‘We think the facilities are pretty cutting-edge,’ said Dave Michaelman, the head of the school.”

A Comfortable Truth

Edutopia Magazine, April 2007

Randy Fielding and Prakash Nair advocate an ergonomic, humanistic approach to the design of learning spaces

Healthy Schools Campaign Blog

A Comfortable Truth: School buildings and healthy learning

7 May 2007

The Healthy Schools Campaign gives Randy Fielding and Prakash Nair’s article, A Comfortable Truth, the thumbs up

Traditional buildings inspire new schools’ architecture

Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 19 March 2007

The Cayman schools’ design team studied the local shapes, sounds and traditions for reflection in their world-leading designs

Award-winning school planners promise world-class design

Kapi Mana News, New Zealand, March 2007
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FNI worked with the Porirua College community to envision the spaces that would best support students for the 21^st Century

“Building Futures” Interview with Prakash Nair

Department of Education, Victoria, Australia, 2006
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An in-depth discussion of the basic principles of 21^st Century school design with Prakash Nair

Minister heralds change for education at annual conference

Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 4 December 2006

“I believe that the work we are undertaking to transform our education system is to produce students and young adults, allowing them to emerge more and more as empowered, self-positioned, motivated, capable individuals, able to hold their own in the global market place,“ — The Hon. Alden McLaughlin, Cayman Islands Minister for Education, Training, Employment, Youth, Sports and Culture

Education stakeholders to gather for another conference

Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 24 November 2006

Prakash Nair, “a globally acclaimed change agent for the enhancement of teaching and learning through improved school design, ” is one of the keynote speakers at a conference on the future of education in the Cayman Islands

New primary school planned for George Town

Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 24 November 2006

“With the major cost implications of the planned new facilities, it is essential that we seek world class advice and get it right. There is no second chance,” — The Hon. Alden McLaughlin, Cayman Islands Minister for Education, Training, Employment, Youth, Sports and Culture

New ideas for old-school school

Kingborough Times, Australia, 12 November 2006
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INTERNATIONAL school design expert Prakash Nair met with students, staff and key community representatives in Kingston this month to discuss its $30 million new high school.

Designing Healthy Schools Our Children Deserve

School Planning and Management, 1 November 2006
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A discussion of knee-jerk and constructive responses to anti-social student behaviour, by Jeff Lackney and Christian Long

US firm hired as architects for three new public schools

Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 24 October 2006

Announcement of design team for 3 new public high schools on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Randall Fielding interviewed on Charlotte radio

The American Institute of Architects had a symposium in late September 2006 to improve the quality of schools in Charlotte. Randy is interviewed along with Harvey Gantt, former Charlotte Mayor.

Randall Fielding interviewed on WCCO radio: “Human Rights and Design for Learning”

New School Design

Blog for TheThinkingCurriculum.com, Australia, 6 September 2006

A reflection on Prakash Nair‘s presentations regarding new schools in Bendigo, Australia

Building boon

The Age, Australia, 28 August 2006
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Jeff Lackney, Prakash Nair and Randy Fielding all mentioned in article on recently-developed and in-planning respectful spaces in Victorian high schools.

Proposal to build world-class education and community facilities in Vines Road

City of Greater Geelong, Australia, 8 August 2006

“Apart from the obvious benefits to local students, this innovative concept would mean the wider community would have access to the very latest facilities including a new library, performing arts and recreation facilities and learning areas” Kildare Ward Councillor Stretch Kontelj

Getting beyond the School as Temple

Edutopia Magazine, July 2006

A discussion of two community-centric approaches to school design: the ‘Community Learning Center’ and ‘Community as School’ models

Learning by Liberation

The Hobart Mercury, Australia, 21 July 2006
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On Reece High School, the design of which won Prakash Nair the McConnell Award for school planning: ‘The school is now protected by something proving far stronger than razor wire: pride. Since the opening of the rebuilt $10 million school in 2003, there has been very little vandalism.’

Master Classroom: Designs inspired by creative minds

Edutopia, June 2006

Randy Fielding, Prakash Nair and Jeff Lackney introduce several new design solutions for student-centred teaching and learning

What They See is What We Get: Ten myths about lighting and color in schools

Edutopia, March 2006

Randy Fielding debunks some of the myths associated with use of lighting and colour in schools

Knowledge Gap in School Building Design

Place, Australia, April 2006

Discussion of school building design in Australian architectural magazine; mentions Prakash Nair as international expert

Learning to the Max

The Age, Australia, 27 February 2006
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Prakash Nair’s work referenced in discussion of larger, non-traditional settings in Victorian schools

Small is Big

Edutopia, November 2005

Randall Fielding and Prakash Nair introduce the concept of the Small Learning Community

Putting Facilities into Words

School Planning and Management, 1 August 2005
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Tassie urged to make classrooms enjoyable

The Hobart Mercury, Australia, 22 April 2005

Tasmania commended on learning system

ABC News Online, Australia, 21 April 2005

Learn the fun way

The Hindu, India, 4 March 2005

Prakash Nair applauds Thiruvananthapuram (India) school

Education’s Radical Idea: Child-Centric Schools

Nation’s Cities Weekly, 29 March 2004

“So many new schools look alike, asserts Prakash Nair, international school building consultant and architect, because we continue to ‘warehouse’ children with too little thought to how the design will impact student learning.”

Workshop focuses on education

The Daily Targum (Rutgers), NJ, 5 November 2003

Jeff Lackney and Prakash Nair present at workshop ‘focused on education reform, design and redesign issues facing American schools today.’

Schools of the Future

ABC 936 Hobart (radio), Australia, 29 April 2003

“In the same way the rest of the world has changed, education is finally catching up,” Prakash told 936 Drive Presenter Anthony Frangi.

Tasmania leads world in approach to teaching

ABC 936 Hobart (radio), Australia, 2 October 2002

Speaking to Annie Warburton on 936 ABC Hobart’s Afternoon show, Prakash Nair said Tasmania’s teaching and assessment strategies are decided after looking at the concept of schools and learning, while most other places start with assessment or test scores, “and then back their way into learning and teaching.”

International Conference on Schools of the Future

University of Western Australia, 20 May 2002

“Dr Lackney will discuss the relationship between educational environments and educational outcomes. Prakash Nair will lead an interactive workshop session on Thursday morning on designing schools for 21^st Century Learning.”

Sunny addition nicely blends Yeshiva school with neighborhood

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI, 26 November 2001
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On Randy Fielding’s design: “In the play area below, little boys in yarmulkes tumble down a curvy, bright blue slide, shrieking with delight… A lot of architects would kill for raves like that.”

Architects hear the benefits of the future’s classrooms

Grand Rapids Business Journal, 15 October 2001
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A presentation by Jeff Lackney, who “consults nationally as an educational facility planner, advocating innovative, vision driven approaches to education.”

Prakash Nair

Isaac Williams (center) leading the victorious University of Maryland team in the City of the Future competition

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Twin Cities

The cutting-edge setting soon to be a part of powerful everyday teaching and learning for students of the Cayman Islands

Tiffany Green, Associate Educational Planner with FNI, and Minnesota Project Manager at BAEO

Randy Fielding: CEFPI 2007 Planner of the Year

Prakash Nair and Stephen Heppell: ‘singing from the same hymn book!’

The Duke School, after years of planning, crosses the final hurdle to construction

‘A Comfortable Truth’ — comfort has nothing in common with these plastic chairs (picture: Edutopia.org)

“‘Getting Beyond ‘School as Temple’” (picture: edutopia.org)

FNI has worked with the Cayman Islands Government and school communities to forge an education plan for the 21^st Century

On Reece High School, Tasmania, Australia: “In 2003, Reece was rated among the top seven schools of the 21st century by The New York Times and it is the first school outside North America to win the James D. MacConnell Award” — Hobart Mercury

Scotch Oakburn College, Tasmania, Australia

Visioning in Melbourne, Australia

The Da Vinci Studio: Student-scaled space for hands-on projects

Natural lighting is precious (pictures: www.designshare.com)

‘Small Learning Communities’ are key to the Bendigo Secondary Schools’ designs

‘Putting Facilities into Words’: Nair and Fielding’s Language of School Design

High School for Recording Arts: the line between curricular and extra-curricular activities is blurred and space becomes student-owned. Stay tuned for news about a forthcoming MTV feature on the school, ‘Hip Hop High’.

Pathways World School, New Delhi, India

On Yeshiva Elementary School: “A sun-drenched, skylighted corridor, its wall punctuated above and below by bands of windows, bridges the old and new sections and sends light into basement classrooms and other connecting rooms.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

	LATEST NEWS Mid-Year News Update: New projects, EFEI launch and publications. Details The Cristo Rey Jesuit High School & Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center has been awarded Details Randall Fielding awarded CEFPI International Planner of the Year Details Microsoft Taps FNI For Key Role in Global Innovative Schools Program Details Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center in operation in Minneapolis. Details Health and Fitness Centre Opens at Scotch Oakburn College. Details Groundbreakings on Cayman Islands. Details A Comfortable Truth – 8 Truths about Comfort in Schools. Click here for link to new article. FNI Adds several new consultants and expands service offerings. Click here for details. Building Futures – Video Interview with Prakash Nair Click here to see video. Randall Fielding Interviewed on Charlotte Radio Click here for streaming audio or download MP3 files to your desktop. Details Randy Fielding interviewed on WCCO radio: “Human Rights and Design for Learning” Click here for streaming audio or download MP3 files to your desktop. New Project Wins in 7 American states, and 6 countries. Details The Language of School Design – New book by Nair and Fielding. Available Now Fielding Returns from Sri Lanka and Heads to Azerbaijan and Australia Details Dr. Lackney criss-crosses land to lead design efforts on behalf of FNI – Details Nair’s Latest trip covers 5 Australian States, Thailand and Singapore Details Nair Returns from Planning & Design Consultation Workshops in 4 Australian States and Singapore Details Nair in Australia – Nair to Keynote Australian Conference in April 2005. Details Fielding in Singapore and Australia Details Nair in Alaska Details Fielding at NAF – Randy Fielding addresses National Audience at NAF Conference in New York. Details Better Schools for Ohio – State of Ohio hires FNI to conduct detailed study of school designs. Details FNI Wins MacConnell Award – Reece School in Tasmania Australia by FNI is MacConnell Award winner! Details		FNI in the News Prakash Nair’s Keynote Presentation to Key Biscayne’s community stakeholders Click here to see youtube Videos of Prakash Nair’s Keynote Presentation to Key Biscayne’s community stakeholders as they plan the first new Municipal Charter High School within this Island Paradise near Miami Beach, Florida. Presentation is titled: Best Practices in Education and Facilities Design: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Prakash Nair on School Design Intended Consequences, 24 January 2008 “A great interview with a very interesting person.” Tim Holt interviews Prakash Nair for his regular podcasting series Education 2020: From Knowledge to Wisdom (Full Video of Keynote address) Baruch College Teaching and Technology Conference, 26 April 2006 Prakash Nair discusses the future of education and educational technology in the keynote address to the 2006 Baruch College Teaching and Technology Conference, City University of New York. Visions of a Brave New Washington: Contest Shows the D.C. of 2108 Salvaging Decay For New Modes of Harnessing Water, Food, Energy Washington Post, 16 January 2008 FNI Senior Planning Consultant Isaac Williams leads the team of faculty and students from University of Maryland, winners of the IBM Innovation Engineering Award at the History Channel/IBM/Infiniti “City of the Future” competition at Union Station, Washington DC. Washington and Virginia Schools to Receive 2008 Architectural Awards from AASA US Fed News, 4 January 2008 DOWNLOAD PDF FNI wins a citation award for design of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center, Minneapolis. Schools for the Future: Design Proposals from Architectural Psychology (To be published by Hogrefe & Huber in 2008) Jeffery Lackney has contributed Chapter 6, A Design Language for Schools and Learning Communities to this international publication. Local education gets attention Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 2 January 2008 ‘Celebrated international name in education’, Prakash Nair, credited in Cayman Islands’ presentation in London at the prestigious World Ministerial Seminar on Technology in Education. Friends share mission of advocating for quality education Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, MN, 26 December 2007 DOWNLOAD PDF FNI Associate Tiffany Green speaks about her twin roles with FNI and the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) in Minneapolis Worldwide Forecast 2008: Asia, Eastern Europe to See Heavy Investment in Educational Facilities CEFPI e-News, December 2007 Randy Fielding consulted on worldwide school building trends Randall Fielding is CEFPI 2007 Planner of the Year CEFPI News Release, 18 October 2007 “Planner of the Year is the highest and most distinguished individual honor conferred by the international organization. It is presented annually to the individual whose professional facility planning activities have produced a significantly positive regional, national or international impact on educational facility planning.” Spaces for Learning Architecture Australia, September/October 2007 Prakash Nair listed as a partner in Victorian Government’s ‘vast’ education facilities investment program Cayman Islands Ministry Blog “Not education as usual — History in the making as the Cayman Islands take a holistic approach to the transformation of its entire government education system and blaze the trail towards building the ultimate 21^st century learning spaces.” New Education offices at Countryside Prakash Nair and Stephen Heppell Randy Fielding, School Planner, wins international award Cayman school campus designs set new benchmark for innovation $122 million would revamp Middletown schools The Providence Journal, RI, 21 November 2007 DOWNLOAD PDF FNI makes recommendations for Rhode Island district’s schools: “The plan, while certainly expensive, would be more beneficial to modern learning and more cost-effective than remodeling the district’s aging school buildings (to the tune of $108 million)” 1 campus, at last, for Duke School The Herald-Sun, NC, 17 October 2007 DOWNLOAD PDF “‘We think the facilities are pretty cutting-edge,’ said Dave Michaelman, the head of the school.” A Comfortable Truth Edutopia Magazine, April 2007 Randy Fielding and Prakash Nair advocate an ergonomic, humanistic approach to the design of learning spaces Healthy Schools Campaign Blog A Comfortable Truth: School buildings and healthy learning 7 May 2007 The Healthy Schools Campaign gives Randy Fielding and Prakash Nair’s article, A Comfortable Truth, the thumbs up Traditional buildings inspire new schools’ architecture Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 19 March 2007 The Cayman schools’ design team studied the local shapes, sounds and traditions for reflection in their world-leading designs Award-winning school planners promise world-class design Kapi Mana News, New Zealand, March 2007 DOWNLOAD PDF FNI worked with the Porirua College community to envision the spaces that would best support students for the 21^st Century “Building Futures” Interview with Prakash Nair Department of Education, Victoria, Australia, 2006 Audio Transcript (PDF) An in-depth discussion of the basic principles of 21^st Century school design with Prakash Nair Minister heralds change for education at annual conference Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 4 December 2006 “I believe that the work we are undertaking to transform our education system is to produce students and young adults, allowing them to emerge more and more as empowered, self-positioned, motivated, capable individuals, able to hold their own in the global market place,“ — The Hon. Alden McLaughlin, Cayman Islands Minister for Education, Training, Employment, Youth, Sports and Culture Education stakeholders to gather for another conference Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 24 November 2006 Prakash Nair, “a globally acclaimed change agent for the enhancement of teaching and learning through improved school design, ” is one of the keynote speakers at a conference on the future of education in the Cayman Islands New primary school planned for George Town Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 24 November 2006 “With the major cost implications of the planned new facilities, it is essential that we seek world class advice and get it right. There is no second chance,” — The Hon. Alden McLaughlin, Cayman Islands Minister for Education, Training, Employment, Youth, Sports and Culture New ideas for old-school school Kingborough Times, Australia, 12 November 2006 DOWNLOAD PDF INTERNATIONAL school design expert Prakash Nair met with students, staff and key community representatives in Kingston this month to discuss its $30 million new high school. Designing Healthy Schools Our Children Deserve School Planning and Management, 1 November 2006 DOWNLOAD PDF A discussion of knee-jerk and constructive responses to anti-social student behaviour, by Jeff Lackney and Christian Long US firm hired as architects for three new public schools Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands, 24 October 2006 Announcement of design team for 3 new public high schools on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Randall Fielding interviewed on Charlotte radio The American Institute of Architects had a symposium in late September 2006 to improve the quality of schools in Charlotte. Randy is interviewed along with Harvey Gantt, former Charlotte Mayor. Randall Fielding interviewed on WCCO radio: “Human Rights and Design for Learning” New School Design Blog for TheThinkingCurriculum.com, Australia, 6 September 2006 A reflection on Prakash Nair‘s presentations regarding new schools in Bendigo, Australia Building boon The Age, Australia, 28 August 2006 DOWNLOAD PDF Jeff Lackney, Prakash Nair and Randy Fielding all mentioned in article on recently-developed and in-planning respectful spaces in Victorian high schools. Proposal to build world-class education and community facilities in Vines Road City of Greater Geelong, Australia, 8 August 2006 “Apart from the obvious benefits to local students, this innovative concept would mean the wider community would have access to the very latest facilities including a new library, performing arts and recreation facilities and learning areas” Kildare Ward Councillor Stretch Kontelj Getting beyond the School as Temple Edutopia Magazine, July 2006 A discussion of two community-centric approaches to school design: the ‘Community Learning Center’ and ‘Community as School’ models Learning by Liberation The Hobart Mercury, Australia, 21 July 2006 DOWNLOAD PDF On Reece High School, the design of which won Prakash Nair the McConnell Award for school planning: ‘The school is now protected by something proving far stronger than razor wire: pride. Since the opening of the rebuilt $10 million school in 2003, there has been very little vandalism.’ Master Classroom: Designs inspired by creative minds Edutopia, June 2006 Randy Fielding, Prakash Nair and Jeff Lackney introduce several new design solutions for student-centred teaching and learning What They See is What We Get: Ten myths about lighting and color in schools Edutopia, March 2006 Randy Fielding debunks some of the myths associated with use of lighting and colour in schools Knowledge Gap in School Building Design Place, Australia, April 2006 Discussion of school building design in Australian architectural magazine; mentions Prakash Nair as international expert Learning to the Max The Age, Australia, 27 February 2006 DOWNLOAD PDF Prakash Nair’s work referenced in discussion of larger, non-traditional settings in Victorian schools Small is Big Edutopia, November 2005 Randall Fielding and Prakash Nair introduce the concept of the Small Learning Community Putting Facilities into Words School Planning and Management, 1 August 2005 DOWNLOAD PDF Tassie urged to make classrooms enjoyable The Hobart Mercury, Australia, 22 April 2005 Tasmania commended on learning system ABC News Online, Australia, 21 April 2005 Learn the fun way The Hindu, India, 4 March 2005 Prakash Nair applauds Thiruvananthapuram (India) school Education’s Radical Idea: Child-Centric Schools Nation’s Cities Weekly, 29 March 2004 “So many new schools look alike, asserts Prakash Nair, international school building consultant and architect, because we continue to ‘warehouse’ children with too little thought to how the design will impact student learning.” Workshop focuses on education The Daily Targum (Rutgers), NJ, 5 November 2003 Jeff Lackney and Prakash Nair present at workshop ‘focused on education reform, design and redesign issues facing American schools today.’ Schools of the Future ABC 936 Hobart (radio), Australia, 29 April 2003 “In the same way the rest of the world has changed, education is finally catching up,” Prakash told 936 Drive Presenter Anthony Frangi. Tasmania leads world in approach to teaching ABC 936 Hobart (radio), Australia, 2 October 2002 Speaking to Annie Warburton on 936 ABC Hobart’s Afternoon show, Prakash Nair said Tasmania’s teaching and assessment strategies are decided after looking at the concept of schools and learning, while most other places start with assessment or test scores, “and then back their way into learning and teaching.” International Conference on Schools of the Future University of Western Australia, 20 May 2002 “Dr Lackney will discuss the relationship between educational environments and educational outcomes. Prakash Nair will lead an interactive workshop session on Thursday morning on designing schools for 21^st Century Learning.” Sunny addition nicely blends Yeshiva school with neighborhood Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI, 26 November 2001 DOWNLOAD PDF On Randy Fielding’s design: “In the play area below, little boys in yarmulkes tumble down a curvy, bright blue slide, shrieking with delight… A lot of architects would kill for raves like that.” Architects hear the benefits of the future’s classrooms Grand Rapids Business Journal, 15 October 2001 DOWNLOAD PDF A presentation by Jeff Lackney, who “consults nationally as an educational facility planner, advocating innovative, vision driven approaches to education.” Prakash Nair Isaac Williams (center) leading the victorious University of Maryland team in the City of the Future competition Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Twin Cities The cutting-edge setting soon to be a part of powerful everyday teaching and learning for students of the Cayman Islands Tiffany Green, Associate Educational Planner with FNI, and Minnesota Project Manager at BAEO Randy Fielding: CEFPI 2007 Planner of the Year Prakash Nair and Stephen Heppell: ‘singing from the same hymn book!’ The Duke School, after years of planning, crosses the final hurdle to construction ‘A Comfortable Truth’ — comfort has nothing in common with these plastic chairs (picture: Edutopia.org) “‘Getting Beyond ‘School as Temple’” (picture: edutopia.org) FNI has worked with the Cayman Islands Government and school communities to forge an education plan for the 21^st Century On Reece High School, Tasmania, Australia: “In 2003, Reece was rated among the top seven schools of the 21st century by The New York Times and it is the first school outside North America to win the James D. MacConnell Award” — Hobart Mercury Scotch Oakburn College, Tasmania, Australia Visioning in Melbourne, Australia The Da Vinci Studio: Student-scaled space for hands-on projects Natural lighting is precious (pictures: www.designshare.com) ‘Small Learning Communities’ are key to the Bendigo Secondary Schools’ designs ‘Putting Facilities into Words’: Nair and Fielding’s Language of School Design High School for Recording Arts: the line between curricular and extra-curricular activities is blurred and space becomes student-owned. Stay tuned for news about a forthcoming MTV feature on the school, ‘Hip Hop High’. Pathways World School, New Delhi, India On Yeshiva Elementary School: “A sun-drenched, skylighted corridor, its wall punctuated above and below by bands of windows, bridges the old and new sections and sends light into basement classrooms and other connecting rooms.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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