What it takes to build 21st-Century Schools

摘要

Florida's Orange County Public Schools is the nation's 10th-largest school district, with 180-plus schools and 192,000 students in grades K-12. Making changes in a district this size "is like trying to turn a battleship," says Faz Ali, Senior Director of Planning and Design. His district has been taking what he describes as "baby steps" toward embracing design and construction innovations aimed at making schools more student centered, project oriented, and technology enhanced. Those are the three signposts of what, for an increasing number of public school districts and private schools across the country, has come to define a so-called "21st-century School."