Healthy Schools
5 Ways to Infuse Collaboration into a New Learning Space
How one Hillsborough County Public Charter School built the collaborative, modern school facility of its dreams from scratch.
By Lesley Logan
At our first school, student collaboration had to take place out in the hallway or in other makeshift spaces. When I decided to build a new facility from the ground up, I knew right away that I wanted students to have fun, comfortable, modular spaces to collaborate in. I had the chance to start from scratch and design the new facility exactly how we wanted it—from the foundation to the structure to the wall colors and furniture design.
As a technology-focused and Franklin Covey Leader in Me Light House school, I knew that if companies like Google and Apple were cultivating greater levels of…
