Designing for Student-Centered Learning

Student-centered learning is Individualized, community-based, experiential, and collaborative. The Learning Community model supports students in all four of these defined areas, as demonstrated by the Norma Rose Point School community in Vancouver, British Columbia.

[@3redtail]

How marvelous! This school is a great marriage of vital learning spaces and engaged learners and teachers. You can see deep learning principles at work and at play in both the school’s design and the students and teachers’ practices. I loved that the video featured the voices of students, teachers, a parent and the principal. Their testimony carried such natural credibility. It was also inspiring. All in all, this “learning building” represents an outstanding collaboration of educators, students, parents, community members and architects.

[@davel8903]

Nice video piece Randy. At 64 years old I look back and realize a school like this would have been perfect for me. Keep up the good work!

[@alecrengifo8447]

Once again a great example of a holistic approach with students at the center. Congratulations, and keep building more!

[@jackbimrose2602]

Kudos to FNI for giving visionary shape and form to student-centered learning. The "soft revolution" has begun!

[@brkuhn]

A fabulous design for a school and a staff that gets it and uses the space in the way envisioned by the architects and educators involved in the design. Congratulations!

[@todschneider]

As usual, Fielding Nair sets the standard for cutting edge schools. This is such an outstanding example of where schools should be heading!

[@stevenedwards7418]

LOVE IT, this is what all schools and leaning spaces need to look and feel like. The learning experience is relevant and authentic.

[@Andrearandomvideos]

Wonderful!!!!This video brings to life the amazing and transformative work of FNI.They reveal a new and flexible way to use space and learn. FNI's designs take us from the old assembly line educational system into the new and collaborative learning environment this central to our interconnected world.Well done!

[@waynejennings5892]

A superb video about a fabulous program and an exciting facility. This firm really captures modern educational research and principles in concise and clear language and then embodies those ideas in wonderful surroundings. Nice going!

[@LizSublewski]

Amazing design...amazing teachers to complement and work with the design!

[@piebotting]

Well done. The school is beautiful. Great to see the teachers, students and parents are so excited and inspired.

[@gaylejohnson7627]

Thanks so much for sharing, Randy! It is always enlightening to see the wonderful "Designs" in their full beauty...

[@gabederksen4310]

Great work FNI! I love the playful glulam "spine", and the collage of cubbies in the Media Centre. Beautiful, thoughtful spaces.

[@ideasrule1]

Hey, so great to hear from you Randy. Wonderful job, another FNI 10/10... I expect no less. Now you must come support Mundo Verde in DC and the new international high school we are erecting! I wonder, do you ever touch small projects like playground / outdoor leaning environment design? That's the next immediate challenge. Tedd PS: Please say hello to Prakash... hope he touched base with my international educator friend Sunita Ghandi.

[@nationalschoolreformfacult5293]

What an amazing school! Thanks for sharing.

[@NTAGblog]

Great video! The school looks amazing.

[@c.kennethtanner6004]

Excellent for these upper-middle class students that may be self-motivated! Have this program and facility design been explored in lower SES populations? Great program and facility design for charter schools.Best Wishes, Ken Tanner

[@jcl0305]

Beautiful!!

[@howardwilliams7229]

Well done! Would you consider 10/10/10? 10th anniversary of The Language of School Design / Learning = 10 / Spaces = 10. Congratulations to our modern day Henry Higgins for teaching the language of school design. I think Eliza's got it. Be well.