Schrader Sole Global
This is a core statement
that delineates the mission and vision of Schrader
Sole Global (SSG), an international educational facilities
organization that works with clients to help design effective teaching and
learning programming strategies and then
to work with Educational facilities designers, planners, and architects and
other stakeholders to design the physical facilities in which teaching and
learning will take place. Our goal is to create an essential
non-difference between the physical structure of the school and the
teaching/learning activities that take place within the walls.
Our strategies for action include designing affordable, sustainable, flexible
educational facilities where the teaching and learning spaces will be able to
accommodate individual learning styles and give teachers the ability to
transform the many of those same spaces for multi-uses like quiet reflection,
group activities, spaces for cooperative hands-on projects, more traditional
pedagogical teaching, etc. as the needs arise. We are obviously not
re-inventing the wheel here, as there are many fine educational facilities
designers whose goal is to employ similar design concepts. We think that
the critical difference between SSG and other educational facilities designers
is that, in fact if not in theory, for most educational facilities designers
function invariably follows form so that what we end up with are very
aesthetically pleasing schools that are monuments to the design team but have
ultimately missed the point of the structure in crucial ways. Before a
shovel is turned, SSG authentically begins with the programming needs and
involves all interested community partners every step of the way (including and
especially students) in the design process, then uses design to inform teaching
and learning. This powerful, open loop begins to blur the boundary
between the physical facility and educational programming. We introduce Educational Commissioning
at the very beginning of the process rather than at the end, where
commissioning functions to address any problems in the design. Instead of
"cleaning up the mess" at the conclusion of the design, this
continuous quality educational programming check mitigates design
problems as the design evolves.
For more information about the conceptual basis of Schrader Sole Global, read
our article in the latest CEFPI Educational Facilities Planner Magazine...
http://guerillaeducators.typepad.com/ge/2009/01/cefpi-educational-facility-planner.html
Contact us here at Guerilla
Educators let to see how Schrader Sole Global can help you help your students every
step of the way to achieve at rigorous academic and social levels in teaching
and learning spaces that enhance academic and social advancement.
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