Design39Campus

Design39Campus
Location

17050 Del Sur Ridge

San Diego, California
United States
Information
Type Public
Established September 2014
School district Poway Unified School District
Principal Sonya Wrisley
Grades PreK-8
Enrollment 1,700 (approximately)
Campus Suburban
Website Official website

Design39Campus is a pre-Kindergarten-8th grade public school that is part of the Poway Unified School District in San Diego, California.[1] It has operated for one year, the 2014-2015 school year.[2] The school enrollment of PreK-6 students is approximately 1,100 (as of 2015) with a full projected PreK-8 enrollment of 1,450. The school offers Early STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education. The school is notable for both its educational process and the facility design that supports it.

Facility

The 156,000 SF (total) buildings are located on a 22 acre site. The total cost of construction was $54 million.[3]

The school was designed to provide a "Design Thinking Environment” that will “change the way we do school”.[4] It was generated through a community-based planning process and resulted in a facility intended to support the school's STEM-based curriculum and a “Design Thinking” curriculum.[5][6] The process focused on three main aspects of design: Integration – Flexibility – Collaboration. The personalized learning needs of each student are supported by employing flexible instructional settings; multiple scales of instruction; transparency and multiple access points for connectivity between spaces; display and mobile marker surfaces throughout to encourage learning opportunities in every space.[4]

Non-standard names are used for much of the campus: the administration building is called the “welcome center"; the library is called the “loft”; art rooms and lab spaces are called "makeries"; teacher planning rooms are called "design centers"; the multipurpose room is called the “showcase”. “If we change the way we talk about things, we’ll change the way we do things,” school principal Wrisley explained.[7]

Teaching methods

The school uses teaching methods that are different from those used in traditional schools. Instead of teaching students in one regular classroom throughout the day, collaborative "pods" of 5-6 classrooms plus a "makery" allow students and instructors to move between spaces and subjects.[2] Grade-based instruction is replaced with students in multiple grades and teams of instructors who rotate students each day according to individual progress.[7] Teachers do not "own" their classrooms; they use multiple rooms throughout the day. The school uses the Design Process for their instructional approach:

To foster collaboration, the administration personnel have movable tables in an open area instead of private offices. Teachers in each of the learning "pods" are responsible for setting their own schedule. Teachers are called “learning experience designers” since instead of teaching lessons to students, they are to encourage students to do their own exploration and ask questions, not just memorize facts.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "PUSD SCHOOL LISTINGS AND REPORTS". Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 Garske, Monica (August 16, 2014). "New Design39Campus Opens in North San Diego". NBC San Diego. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Architect's webpage. Retrieved 2015-11-01
  4. 1 2 LearningSCAPES Conference 2015, Design 39 Campus, USGBC, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-01
  5. ↑ American Institute of Architects San Diego. Retrieved 2015-11-01
  6. ↑ Starting From Scratch: A Public School Built on Dreams of Students and Parents, KQED News, August 20, 2014. Retrieved 2015-11-01
  7. 1 2 3 Get a peek at Design 39 Campus on Saturday, Pomerado News, August 14, 2014. Retrieved 2015-11-01

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Coordinates: 33°01′05″N 117°07′21″W / 33.018187°N 117.122444°W / 33.018187; -117.122444

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