Teacher Meeting11.15.12

Preparing the Environment. Growing your future.

Chiaravalle Montessori School

DISCOVER. ACTIVATE. DESIGN.

DISCOVER ACTIVATE STRATEGIZE LAUNCH

PROTOTYPEEMERGE DEVELOP REFINEINQUIRE

OUR PROCESS

OUR CALENDAR

Tuesday, October 2Early & Lower elementary shadow, hangout, interviews

Friday, October 12Middle school shadow, hangout, interviews

Friday, October 12Process presentation & parent coffee hour

Wednesday, October 3Upper elementary shadow, hangout, interviews

Tuesday, November 15Educator and Staff working meeting

Thursday, October 25Student design workshop

Monday, October 8Technical survey of building

December/January 2013Scenarios & refinement

Thursday, November 29Community Workshop

OCTOBER NOVEMBER DEC/JAN

CHIARAVALLE MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Tuesday, October 9Town Hall, Board meeting

• Present what we’ve learned from Discovery so far

• See you apply emerging themes

• Hear your reactions (survey if leave early)

• Use your design challenge concepts to begin to

define the space program

GOALS FOR TODAY

Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment.

MARIA MONTESSORI

OBSERVATION & SHADOWING

UNCOVERING PATTERNS & OPPORTUNITIES

it was raining!

INTERVIEWS & COFFEE HOURS

DISCOVERY THROUGH DISCUSSION

STUDENT DESIGN LABHONORING STUDENT VOICES

STUDENT DESIGN LABHONORING STUDENT VOICES

SURVEYREFINING THEMES AND GATHERING INSIGHT

EmpowerMONTESSORI PRINCIPLES

AchieveDESIGN GOALS

ReimaginePROGRAM

AREAS

MONTESSORI PRINCIPLES

Prepared Environment

Follow the Child

Independent Children

Process-based

Grace and Courtesy

Conceptual and Physical

1. Ease transitions for students

2. Support independence in students

3. Welcome families

4. Celebrate the Chiaravalle community

EMERGING DESIGN GOALS

Target experiences:

Continue to ‘follow the child’ and create a prepared environment throughout the school as well as in the classroom

AchieveDESIGN GOALS

Ease transitionsAs students venture outside of their classrooms

“[Specials] is one of my hardest parts of the day. It doesn’t feel

Montessori at all. It’s very directed and orderly and puts us

all in a different place, which of course affects the children.”

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• Learning in transition spaces• Waiting• Supports to guide students• Prepping the room• Pick up/drop off

AchieveDESIGN GOALS

Support independence in studentsAs they take on self-directed learning

IAGE

Target experiences:

Provide tools for independent exploration. Create flexibility for different types of use. Honor learning spaces as the students’ domain.

“Children are so persistent if we leave them alone – they’re little

scientists”

• Outfit space to the scale of a child• Design for independent navigation

of tools• Consider boundaries between

parent space and learning space

Sharing work.

AchieveDESIGN GOALS

Welcome and extend an invitation to current and prospective families

Target experiences:

How can the family-centered culture expand to support parents as they learn about Montessori and consider the progression through Chiaravalle?

“As much as this is a learning exploration for the child, it also is

for the parent”

• Capitalize on moments with families during pick up/drop off

• Design places for parent gathering• Create opportunities for parents to

engage in their child’s learning outside the classroom

AchieveDESIGN GOALS

Celebrate Chiaravalle communityAcross classrooms and age levels

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Target experiences:

Create a unified identity that champions compassionate peer learning and the Montessori philosophy.

“Give them opportunity to enter into their own development, but

also the development of their community”

• Design for beneficial exchange between age groups

• Honor each level and celebrate the progression as a child gets older

• Create tangible identity by showcasing what defines Chiaravalle Montessori School

PROGRAM AREAS

Gym

Performance Area

Learning Resource Rooms

Kitchen and Café

Meeting Space

Entry

Outdoor Area

instead of using nouns to design…

PROGRAM AREAS

Movement and Play

Peer Exchange

One-on-one Instruction

Eating

Greeting

Hosting

Celebrating

…we use verbs

your turn!

DESIGN CHALLENGE

Use verbs to describe an ideal Chiaravalle that excellently lives up to your assigned design goal.

1. Read over your assigned design goal2. Choose/generate verbs that support your goal3. Arrange the verbs in a bubble diagram to imagine how the school

can better live up to your goal4. Present!

ACTIVATE

Design Thinking

DESIGN CHALLENGE

Consider:

• How is the design goal applied?• Who is participating? (students, teachers, staff, families)• What happens where? Name clusters of verbs.• What technology could be incorporated to help facilitate the goal?

ACTIVATE

Discussion.