Research Links
Center for Education, Environment and Design Studies (CEEDS) at the University of Washington, Dr. Sharon Sutton, director. http://ceeds.caup.washington.edu/
Center for Health, Environment and Justice. The Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ) is a national environmental organization founded and led by grassroots leaders. Started by activists from Love Canal, the organization provides technical assistance, information, and training to community groups interested in organizing to address environmental threats in their communities. CHEJ supports several campaigns related to making communities more environmentally safe for infants and children. CHEJ's Web site includes links to publications in English and Spanish regarding children's environmental health. http://www.chej.org
Children's Environmental Health Network. The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national, multidisciplinary organization, whose mission is to protect the fetus and child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment. The network has worked on the national level since 1992, focusing on the areas of research, policy, and education. Its goals are: to promote the development of sound public health and child-focused national policy; to stimulate prevention-oriented research; to educate health professionals, policymakers and community members in preventive strategies; and to elevate public awareness of environmental hazards to children. Its Web site provides information on issues specific to children's environmental health and links to outside sources of information and resources. http://www.cehn.org
Children, Youth and Environments (CYE). Arefereed journal and multidisciplinary, international network dedicated to improving the lives of young people. The journal targets researchers, policy makers and professionals and is guided by a distinguished Editorial Advisory Board. In addition to peer-reviewed research articles, on this site you will find field reports, book reviews, a database of individuals and organizations worldwide, a calendar of upcoming events, an extensive searchable bibliography, video links, and much more. Our unique combination of information resources facilitates the sharing of knowledge and experience concerning the development of children and youth in different environments. http://cye.colorado.edu/
Design Education provides information and resources about K12 design education. The four major areas of design education are Environment Design, Information Design, Object Design, and Experience Design. This site also includes information about teaching the design processes. If you are interested in helping young people learn about Design Education this is the site for you. http://www.designeducation.org/index.html
Design Share is an on-line library of facility planning information dedicated to collaboration and excellence in the built-environment managed by Randy Fielding. This is an excellent place to start any exploratory research effort if you want to know the state-of-the-art research on school planning and design issues. http://www.designshare.com See specifically http://www.designshare.com/Research/ResearchIndex.htm
Dr. Joe Frost Play Environment Research Collection - The University of the Incarnate Word now houses the largest children's play and play environment research collection in the United States by Dr. Joe Frost, often called the contemporary father of play advocacy. http://www.uiw.edu/frost/
EDSPACE. Creative Environments for Learning Organisations: The web site that provides information about design and development of Educational facilities. http://www.edspace.school.nz/
Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment, which includes air, water, and land. EPA has developed the Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Kit, which shows schools how to carry out a practical plan of action for improving indoor air problems at little or no cost using straightforward activities and in-house staff. More information, including how to obtain a free copy of Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools, can be found on the EPA's Web site. http://www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/tools4s2.html
Facility Energy Services, Inc., A consulting engineering company dealing with Issues of facility management, deferred maintenance, capital Improvements, long-range Planning, intelligent buildings, technology planning in schools. Edward H. Brzezowski, P.E. http://www.fes-nj.com/
Funders'
Forum on Environment and Education. Funders' Forum on Environment
and Education (F2E2) is a philanthropic affinity group with the mission
of increasing the quality and quantity of grants made at the intersection
of environment and education. It works to leverage private foundation
funds for building public schools that are healthy, high performance,
educationally appropriate, and community-based schools. 18310 Scottsdale
Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44122, 216.991.3085.
Green Schools Program. Alliance to Save Energy developed Green Schools--a comprehensive program designed for K-12 schools that creates energy awareness, enhances experiential learning, and saves schools money on energy costs.Site for Green Schools program helps schools use energy efficiently through building retrofits, changes in maintenance and operational maintenance routines, and changes in the behavior of building users. http://www.ase.org/greenschools/
Health and Environmental Funders Network. The Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) is primarily a virtual network for funders working at the interface of human health and environmental or ecological health. HEFN provides education and support to its more than 100 members through e-mails, conference calls, and meetings regarding environmental health issues. http://www.hefn.org
Innovative Design, Inc. An architectural firm dedicated to the design of sustainable architecture, energy efficiency and daylighting strategies. http://www.innovativedesign.net/
Inside/Out Architecture, Inc. This site offers two articles on current ideas in science facility design. "The High School Science Resource Area" describes a wide variety of spaces that should be provided for a hands-on, inquiry-based program; "What Goes Around, Comes Around" describes a trend in the US in which science faculties are taking over former vocational shops to enhance students' abilities to create large, long-term projects. http://www.insideoutarch.com
International Secretariat for Child Friendly Cities. This organization has been established by UNICEF, UN-HABITAT, the Italian Committee for UNICEF and the Istituto degli Innocenti. In operation since September 2000, the Secretariat aims to provide information and support to interested municipalities with the key objective of sharing experiences and encouraging networking among cities committed to improving the quality of life for their children and fulfilling their rights. http://www.childfriendlycities.org
Korean Institute of Education Facilities (KIEF) was founded in December of 1993 as an academic association (or society) of the parties who are interested in educational facilities (academic, private sector and government) with purpose of doing research for educational facilities to improve current educational facility and meet future educational needs. Their major activities are to do research on educational facility, to held conference(April, Oct), seminar, and symposium ,to publish a bimonthly journal, and evaluate school designs. The institute covers a variety of topics related to educational facilities such as environmental comfort (thermal, visual, acoustic), open school, the relationship with community, evaluation of school design, modeling school needs for renovation, educational facility design criteria, schools for 21st century. In addition, they have investigated the current situation of educational facilities in other countries (Japan, China, USA, German, France, UK). Refering to USA, they have benchmarked and published reports on three American schools, Quincy community school in Georgia, a Magnet school in Miami, and a elementary school. Unfortunately, they do not provide english-version website. http://www.kief.or.kr
MIG Communications (Moore, Iacofano and Goldman, Inc.) MIG Communications' experience addresses the entire range of issues that are centered on environmental design for youth, including public policy, design, accessibility, programming, management, safety, maintenance, and staff development. Their multi-disciplinary design team has backgrounds in child development, recreation, landscape architecture, education, curriculum and program development, exhibition and industrial design, and environmental psychology. Their work combines these disciplines to develop special places to support the development and educational needs of children. http://www.migcom.com/childdesign/index.html
New Designs for Learning is a research center out of the School of Education at Oregon State University run by Dr. George Copa. New Designs for Learning is a comprehensive approach to educational reform and revitalization. The aim of New Designs is to significantly enhance learning results for all students through their life spans. Application of the design process and resulting recommendations have been made to a wide range of settings including K-12 schools, community and technical colleges, universities, and community-based training agencies. Key design themes include using active learning strategies; integrating subject matter areas; linking learning in school, college, and community-based settings; and leveraging partnerships among educational levels and with businesses and community organizations. New Designs for Learning incorporates insights from research and development and promising professional practice; variations in organizational structures and settings; strategies used in other countries; imaginative ideas by futuristic educators; and collaboration among innovative teachers, policy makers, and community representatives. The resulting design recommendations equip educational leaders with new capabilities in designing learning experiences and environments. The site has a good description of his design process and describes his educational planning work for the School for Environmental Studies (Zoo School) in Apple Valley, MN. among other more recent projects. http://newdesigns.oregonstate.edu/Newpages/contacts.html
North Carolina School Design Clearinghouse. Board of Education funded site for prototype schools. "...expected to result in cost and time savings in the design phase of school construction; provide broader access to architects that specialize in school design; and increase awareness of current trends in school design." http://www.schoolclearinghouse.org/
Program on Educational Building (PEB) a division of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); members include national governments, state and provincial government and research organizations. Promotes the exchange of ideas in the field of educational facilities. http://www.oecd.org/
School Design and Planning Laboratory, established and managed by Dr. Ken Tanner, advocates curriculum driven design and the planning of safe, comfortable, developmentally appropriate, and environmentally friendly learning environments for students (k-12) and is full of abstracts of current research on learning environments. http://www.coe.uga.edu/sdpl/sdpl.html
School Design Research. Located at the College of Design at the North Carolina State University, funded by NCEF and managed by Henry Sanoff provides a number of resources for assessing school environments. http://www4.ncsu.edu/~sanoff/schooldesign/home.html
SchoolDesigns.com is the industry's top online resource for educational architecture information. Showcasing exterior and interior designs from outstanding schools across the country, SchoolDesigns.com is the place to be for anyone interested in the latest educational facility ideas and information. http://www.schooldesigns.com/
SchoolDude.com. This members-only website is the online home for school facility, maintenance, and operations professionals. The site connects school facility professionals to each other to solve problems, share best practices, and improve the nation's learning environments. Includes tools for work management, information, and resources as well as online procurement for equipment and school supplies. http://schooldude.com
School Works. School Works is a UK organisation which links the design of secondary school buildings to the educational agenda. At School Works we argue that the environment impacts on teaching, learning, the culture and management of a school and we have sought to understand the inter-relationship between these ‘hard’ design and ‘soft’ educational issues. We believe that it is possible to use existing resources differently to create beautiful places designed to raise educational achievement and support lifelong learning in local communities. Our work is focused on the particular issues faced by secondary schools. We argue that it is not only what you spend, but how you spend, and that attention to design and detail need not cost more. http://www.school-works.org
Small Schools Project. The Small Schools Project works with both new schools and small schools created by redesigning large comprehensive high schools into smaller, autonomous schools. Tools for Schools: Facilities and Space lists connections to the growing literature about small schools and their physical space, see http://www.smallschoolsproject.org
Smart Schools Clearinghouse assists Florida school districts that seek to access School Infrastructure Thrift (SIT) Program; developing an on-line library of school designs which serve as a resource to districts. http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/smartschools/index.html
The American Institute of Architects (AIA), Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE), "Explores changing educational needs; promotes design excellence for educational facilities and cultural spaces." http://www.aia.org/PIA/cae/ (new site in development)
The Children's Environmental Health Network. This is a national, multi-disciplinary organization, whose mission is to protect the fetus and child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment. The provides information about the Network, children's environmental health, and links to sources of information and resources. http://www.cehn.org/
The Children's Environments Research Group (CERG), a branch of the Center for Human Environments, provides an important link between University scholarship and the development of design, policy and programs that both improve the quality of environments for children and enhance children's interaction with them. CERG assists in the design and redesign of children's environments and strives to encourage programs that foster more dynamic and empowering relationships between children and the environment. Managed by Dr. Roger Hart. http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/cergfr.htm
The Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI). CEFPI founded in 1921 as The National Council on Schoolhouse Construction. The mission is to promote the development of educational facilities that provide the best possible learning environment. A bibliography of research articles is being developed http://www.cefpi.org
The Educational Design Institute (EDI) was created to promote safe and developmentally-appropriate learner-centered environments for Pre-K-14 http://www.edi.msstate.edu/
The Healthy Schools Network. The Healthy Schools Network (HSN) is a New York-based advocate for the protection of children's environmental health in schools. HSN strives to build awareness of children's environmental health needs and to assure every child and school employee an environmentally healthy school through research, information and referral, advocacy, and coalition building. It promotes schools that are environmentally responsible to children, to personnel, and to communities. http://www.healthyschools.org
The Lifelong Kindergarten Group, The Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab aims to re-invent learning and education in a digital society. We develop new technologies that, in the spirit of the blocks and fingerpaint of kindergarten, expand the range of what people design and create -- and what they learn in the process. Our ultimate goal is a world of playfully creative people, who are constantly inventing new possibilities for themselves and their communities. http://llk.media.mit.edu/
The National Center for Technology Planning (NCTP) is a clearinghouse for the exchange of many types of information related to technology planning. Founded by Larry Anderson, Ph.D. http://www.nctp.com/
The National Clearinghouse For Education Facilities: serves as an excellent resource for the nation's school personnel and allied professionals who plan, design, construct as well as maintain educational facilities. http://www.edfacilities.org specifically see http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/impact_learning.cfm
The Rural Trust works with many small rural towns and counties in which the school remains the center of the community. Managed by Barbara Lawrence. http://www.ruraledu.org/issues/facilities.htm
Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Daniel Duke, director. Promotes the design of learning environments that foster the acquisition of knowledge (what), skills (how), and wisdom (why) in a climate of caring, cooperation, and mutual respect. A wealth of policy papers and research reports available. http://www.tjced.org
Urban Educational Facilities (UEF-21) is a Chapter of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International, Prakash Nair, current president. The mission of UEF is to promote the development of urban educational facilities that provide the best possible learning environment for children. A emerging research component to this organization is being developed. http://www.designshare.com/UEF.htm
