Speaker 1: When kids walk into this building, they're enthused. They're excited. It's modern. It's awesome. It's like a whole new idea of how to do a school. People

Speaker 2: come in the school and they say, this is the Disney World of Schools.

Speaker 3: Centerview Elementary is one of our brand new buildings that was designed by teachers to support this fundamental shift in education toward personalized

Speaker 4: learning. As we started to create more spaces for personalized learning, one of the things that many school districts embraced was the idea that the Media Center could change, and out of that evolved the idea that we take what used to be called the library, then was called the Media Center, and turn it into a

Speaker 5: Learning Commons. The Learning Commons is truly the center of the building. All of the architecture around it really creates it as the focal point. It's really a flexible space, and not only is it housed some of the building's books, it also has a stage so that they can do some music performances or use it as an

Speaker 4: art gallery. So it's really not as much the repository of all the information anymore, as it is a place to go and think different about education and do different things than you can do in a classroom. Instead of a dedicated art room, we've built these flex labs. Certainly they have the facilities to work in art and music or science, but really they can all be adapted to different things. The teacher can come to that room, and the room is fully outfitted to adapt and be what those teachers need to do. We've really had to question what a classroom is, and really think about whether four walls are the best way to contain education. What we did is develop a concept of a learning studio. Learning studio breaks up the

Speaker 6: idea of a 1 to 25 ratio between teachers and students. Those learning studios have the ability to be extremely flexible, both in their furniture and in the way that spaces are either closed off or open up to combine with each

Speaker 7: other. Learning is transparent as you walk in there. You're able to see right into that classroom. I'm able to engage with the kids and ask them, tell me more about what you're working on. Tell me what you're learning. Each learning

Speaker 5: studio has a mudroom. The mudroom is where the student would start first when they leave the bus. It's kind of like walking into your own home. You have your own entrance, you hang your coats, you push your boots away, and then you go into your living space, which is your learning studio. When you walk into our

Speaker 7: learning studios, you immediately walk into a STEM maker space. We call it a STEM studio. It has a kitchenette with supplies and materials where kids are able to make, create, and design through science, technology, engineering, and math.

Speaker 8: The STEM spaces do allow students to be creative and allow them to reach that

Speaker 2: end goal of personalized learning. It's just a creative space to work in. It caters to teachers' creativity and it allows us to, you know, move things to the side and teach a big group lesson or jump into the active learning room. We have all of these spaces right at our fingertips. Centerview is an awesome

Speaker 9: place for students to learn because the building is supportive of everything that education is heading to. It's personalized education, it's differentiating for students' needs, it's very flexible for students. It is just awesome. I mean,

Speaker 7: the whole place is just amazing. We need to know our students deeply, and so we want to have those conversations about how are kids feeling valued, inspired, and having a sense of belonging within our school district. And if we're able to do that, then we're able to develop the skills and dispositions so they're able to be successful and ready for those career opportunities or those college opportunities once they leave our system.