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CEFPI is a Registered Provider with The American Institute of
Architects Continuing Education Systems (AIA/CES). Credit(s)
earned on completion of this program will be reported to AIA/CES for
AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and
non-AIA members are available upon request.
This program is registered with AIA/CES for continuing professional
education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or
construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material
of construction or any method or manner of handling, using,
distributing, or dealing in any material or product.
Questions related to specific materials, methods, and services will be
addressed at the conclusion of each presentation.
Learning Objectives
Changing Rules of Urbanization
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the issues that forced Pittsburgh to transform itself when its
economy collapsed.
2. Understand the choices made by a visionary leadership and how community
support was achieved.
3. Understand the creative ways used to find financial support and partnership.
4. Understand the choices made to promote sustainability and reduce
environmental pollution.
Learning Objectives
Classroom of the Future Presentation
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Explore how the learning environments of these projects enable all learners
to be successful.
2. Learn how the physical environment of these facilities supports the learning
environment and supports sustainability through creative solutions.
3. Discover how the planning and design involves community support and
promotes a culture of sustainability and strong environmental awareness.
4. Review the methods utilized in the planning process to meet sustainability,
safety and accessibility needs.
Learning Objectives
Not Old School: Architecture in Support of Learning
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the research and theory that support a learning commons
approach to education.
2. Understand how academic and community support was developed for a
learning commons.
3. Learn how the learning commons is being put to use by educators.
4. Understand the acoustical, lighting and cost considerations in planning for a
learning commons.
Learning Objectives
Imagining the High School of the Future
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the changes in patterns of learning.
2. Understand what type of space is required to accommodate these changes.
3. Understand how an existing, rigidly structured high school can be
transformed to a more communal setting.
4. Understand how transparency and visibility can support collaboration and
innovation.
Learning Objectives
Finding Certainty in Uncertain Times: Using Strategic Planning to
Maximize Capital Investment
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the financial, demographic, and structural trends in public schools
districts.
2. Understand the relationship between student enrollment and budgeting and
their impact on school facilities.
3. Explore the available tools that aid schools districts in prioritizing funds to
invest strategically in capital improvements.
4. Apply the concepts of strategic planning and investment by studying the
ongoing modernization of District of Columbia Public Schools.
Learning Objectives
Effective School Design for Innovative Curriculum Models:
Incorporating Content, Context, and Learning Processes
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the context, concept, and learning processes of each of four
innovative school models.
2. Understand the intersection of architecture and education when planning
and designing learning environments for these school models.
3. Understand what designers and facility planners can do to support and
facilitate the learning environments of each mode.
4. Understand some of the practical design approaches and components that
may be used to facilitate the context, content, and learning processes of
each innovative school model.
Learning Objectives
Improving the Educational Environment without Raising Taxes in a
Challenging Economy
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Respond to the Challenging Economy with positive changes.
2. Overcome poor retention rates for enrollments, declining population, and
migration to cyber charter programs.
3. Build consensus to make the appropriate decision to consolidate facilities,
reduce operating costs, and improve educational facilities.
4. Regain students with an enhanced curriculum and and improved learning
environment
Learning Objectives
Transforming a Diamond in the Rough
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand creative adaptive re-use and renovation design strategies for
transforming existing historic assets.
2. Learn how end user/community engagement and a hybrid DesignBuild
project delivery optimized design innovation.
3. Learn how to overcome obstacles of time, money and prejudice against
using existing schools.
4. Understand the impact of design on the learning and behavioral outcomes of
the students.
Learning Objectives
High Impact Learning Environments
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the Learning Environment continues to evolve at a rapid pace.
2. Understand that not all students learn in the same manner.
3. Understand that the learning environment has a profound effect on rate and
quality of learning.
4. Understand that correct design and function can improve learning
experience and overall success.
Learning Objectives
Modernizing Early 20th Century Buildings for 21st Century STEM
Education
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how the Common Core Standards and the 4 C's of 21st
education are affecting the design of contemporary learning environments.
2. Understand the opportunities and challenges of modernizing an early 20th
century building for 21st century education.
3. Understand the framework of the District of Columbia's multi-phase Master
Plan to modernize its schools.
4. Understand the opportunities and challenges of a fast track design build
delivery method for school construction.
Learning Objectives
Getting from a 21st Century Vision Statement to Construction Details,
The New Guilford High School
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the meaning of 21st Century Pedagogy.
2. Understand the techniques used to make the leap from Educational Vision to
construction details.
3. Know how implementing a "model" classroom can help test a concept.
4. Develop thoughts on how education will be delivered in the future.
Learning Objectives
Mind the Gap
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the issues and opportunities facing educators and an
understanding of their barriers.
2. Understand how educators are moving pedagogy and the part which
technology and the physical environments play
3. Know where technology is developing and the likely impact upon school
design and needs in the future
4. Know where to look for examples of best practice from a number of different
countries and relate to the issues they are facing .
Learning Objectives
Falk Laboratory School
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the solution adopted to preserve the original facilities and make
them energy efficient.
2. Understand the strategies adopted to make the addition design integrated
with the original facilities.
3. Understand the design solutions that promote wellness for the occupants,
providing clean outdoors air and daylighting.
4. Understand the health and sustainability benefits of using outdoor spaces for
learning.
Learning Objectives
The Neighborhood Academy
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how design can support holistic education.
2. Understand how a school can be a catalyst for community improvement.
3. Examine the design solutions adopted to support small classes and
community gatherings.
4. Understand the non-linear funding strategy adopted to support the operation.
Learning Objectives
Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Examine design solutions that support performing arts learning and training.
2. Examine the partnerships and collaborations with national and local cultural
organizations that make the school attractive to students and teachers.
3. Examine design solutions that enable the school to offer both performing arts
training and college and university preparatory instruction,
4. Explore the relationships between school, families and community at large.
Learning Objectives
Renaissance of Tragedy – School Safety Design for the Unthinkable
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the extent of the problem of safety and security in schools.
2. Examine the designers that result in weakness in terms of safety,
3. Understand the process and the solutions that reinforce safety and security.
4. Understand how the design can save lives and effect the options available.
Learning Objectives
Fallingwater Tour and Presentation
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Review the history of Fallingwater and the application of FLW's ideas of
organic architecture.
2. Examine the original technical solutions adopted to incorporate nature into
the facility, with respect to both.
3. Examine the geological characteristics of the site and how they were
respected and enhanced by the building.
4. Understand how Fallingwater is being preserved, maintaining the purity of
FLW's intended relationship of the house with its natural surroundings.
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This concludes The American Institute of Architects
Continuing Education Systems Course
CEFPI