New learning lab for K-8 students becomes a model of 21st-century learning
By Alison Rooney
More than just a physical delineation, Haldane’s new “Makerspace and Learning Lab” embodies changes the school’s administration is already implementing to better prepare young people to enter the brave new world of the workforce 15 or 20 years from now.
Funded by a grant from the Haldane School Foundation, the rededicated second-floor classroom in the center of the elementary/middle school building had its official opening Wednesday, Oct. 22, in a ceremony attended by many of the parents, staff and others in the community instrumental to its development and execution.
A few days prior to the opening, Elementary/Middle School Principal Brent Harrington…