Here are four school leaders who are successful at inspiring and encouraging the leadership team, and at taking responsibility for implementing the district's vision.
School roofs are expensive. Their cost is apparent from the beginning, and their reliability, or lack of it, can affect future expenditures.
Properly conceived, designed, and integrated into a community, a school can contribute to economic well-being or even economic recovery.
During visits to other countries and through his role with an international organization, this nationally known crusader for better restroom care confirms his expectations that some problems are not unique to U.S. schools.
We all have spent time trying to anticipate the future of schools. One approach opens up many opportunities for our high schools and middle schools of tomorrow the laptop computer/e-school.
If someone suddenly handed me some extra dollars and said,Use them in one of five ways to improve student achievement,” I wondered what I would do and where I would do it.
Innovative School Building Continues to Make the Grade… And Then Some
Unlike schools in the past, there is a lot of thought and logic behind the way learning spaces are being designed and decorated.
In an excellent media-relations presentation, a state police press officer recently used the analogy of hungry dogs. He said the press during a crisis can be like hungry dogs, they are okay as long as you feed them regularly.
Successful landscape architectural design in an educational setting not only resolves obligatory envrionmental, safety, and secruity concerns, it also contributes to the education of students and to the welfare of the community.
What LEED for Schools says about reducing energy used by lighting, while improving the performance of students, teachers, and administrators with natural daylight.
School safety is an issue that cannot be ignored.
"The same, yet different," aptly explains six specific characteristics of rural school districts when compared with urban districts. Sure, each rural characteristic has its challenges, but then again, so do the urban districts'.
It takes more than classroom space to make a school run properly. Sometimes, like it or not, adding space is a necessity.
We are blessed with a world-class educational system, burdened by many students and parents who take the immense opportunities our schools provide for granted.
With savvy in procurement and consumption, administrators can reduce their energy bills.
The design of educational facilities often face the challenge of state education department codes and rules.
In the world of school construction and renovation, whatever can go wrong will go wrong.
…a window opens, if it's operable that is. What's new in windows and doors in the school market?