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Using Windows and Doors to Provide Safety and Security

Is it possible for schools — specifically window and door elements — to look good and offer protection at the same time?

Custodial Staffing Guidelines for Managers

Custodial staffing is just one of a manager's many responsibilities, yet it takes a lot of time. Knowledge and sensitivity make custodial staffing a bit easier.

Keeping Old Doors And Windows

How architects avoid tearing out and replacing the original doors and windows on aging campus buildings.

Grade Configurations

It is essential that school administrators and school boards seek community input when making decisions to change the grade configurations for their school district

Improving Campus Safety

From sexual assault to high-tech thievery, college campuses can be dangerous places. What's happening on campuses today and how can administration be more proactive in keeping students safe?

Staffing Resources

Do you want to know more about the staffing guidelines Wormwood mentioned?

Tips On How to Minimize Risks Associated With Staff Hiring

Hiring the perfect maintenance person for that position is always a challenge, in addition to managing employee turnover.

Up on the Roof

Each geographic area of the country requires special considerations when it comes to roofing materials and maintenance.

Profiles of Successful Schools

Everyone will agree that a "successful" school must enhance the students' learning, but we may not agree on how that success is measured — or maybe we do.

Using Windows and Doors to Provides Safety and Security

Is it possible for schools — specifically window and door elements — to look good and offer protection at the same time?

Who's Maintaining What?

Schools do spend a lot of money on maintenance each year but not enough to keep up with need.

FIRST DAYS IN SCHOOL

A plan for designing an effective and useful early childhood education center.

ACOUSTICS TAKE THE LEAD IN CLASSROOM DESIGN

Using a national standard, administrators can be sure classrooms are planned and designed to achieve excellent acoustics.

Moveable Walls Allow for Space Flexibility

With a variety of options, moveable walls allow for flexibility when space is limited, dollars are tight and change is constant.

Editor's Notebook -- A LOOK AT BUILDING COMMISSIONING

Many schools look at commissioning as an extra, unnecessary layer in an already expensive construction process but when measured against the savings to the annual utility bill, the lower costs for maintenance and operations, and improvements to the learn

Makover

Do any of your schools need a cosmetic makeover that also serves to make them safer?

A GOOD RESOURCE

Creating small learning communities within large high schools takes more than a declaration of intent. It takes commitment and agreement among faculty, administrators, students and parents.

Up to Speed

Effective safety requires the ability to periodically assess our safety and emergency preparedness measures in a critical manner. A thoughtful self-evaluation of campus safety plans can save lives.

Outfitting Fitness Facilities

The number of machines available is staggering — but what students want is extremely predictable.

Tiny Electronic Devices Go to College

The proliferation of shrinking electronic technologies promise big benefits (and big headaches) for college and university administrators.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION FACILITIES

As we look to the future, planning physical education spaces in educational environments may present a challenge to develop a more direct relationship between traditional teaching/learning spaces and gross motor activity spaces.

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