Educational Visioning group explores learning goals aligned with facilities needs
During several sessions throughout November, a group of Cape Elizabeth administrators, teachers, parents, students, and community partners went through a step-by-step visioning process to inform the design of renovated or new school facilities.
The Cape Elizabeth Educational Visioning Group (EVG) participated in three workshops run by Harriman Architects and New Vista Design. Participants were led through a step-by-step visioning process aimed at building off of the community’s previous visioning work, capturing the best thinking about CESD’s current and future educational goals and priorities, and connecting them to best practices and possibilities in innovative school facility design.
Topics covered as part of the workshops included:
Priority Goals for Cape Elizabeth programs and facilities
Future-Ready Teaching and Learning Practices that the district is considering
Discussion of the district’s Portrait of a Graduate and its implications for the design of facilities
Strengths, challenges, opportunities, and goals associated with the district’s current academic programming as well as the district’s vision for its future
21st Century design patterns and approaches that innovative schools throughout the U.S. have put into practice
Guiding Principles for the design of new or renovated facilities
Bubble diagramming of conceptual design ideas for CESD facilities