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Discovery by Design – Discovery, Data & Designing for Program Needs

Learn how discovery, data, and stakeholder input can uncover the unique needs of K–12 esports programs and translate them into purposeful, student-centered…

Align by Design – Creating High-Impact Spaces for Competition, Collaboration, and Career Pathways

Explore how zoning, technology, furniture, and flexible design can create high-performing K–12 esports environments for competition, collaboration, instruction, and CTE pathways.

Develop by Design – Foundations of Esports Learning Environments

Explore how intentionally designed K–12 esports environments can strengthen student engagement, belonging, collaboration, digital skills, and connections to CTE pathways.

Is STEM/STEAM Enough? Evolving Toward Systems Thinking

Explore how learning environments can move beyond traditional STEM/STEAM models to support interdisciplinary thinking, collaboration, and complex problem-solving.

The Empowered Instructor — ProSocial Skills in the World of Work

Explore how CTE learning environments can empower instructors, strengthen technical instruction, and intentionally develop the communication, teamwork, adaptability, and ProSocial skills students…

Designed for Every Learner — Inclusive CTE Environments and the Exploratory Pathway

Explore how inclusive CTE environments can expand access, reduce barriers, and help students discover workforce pathways from middle school exploration through high…

Value Equation — Community Impact, Accountability, and the Design Evidence

Explore how CTE facility design can strengthen communities, support workforce partnerships, meet accountability requirements, and create equitable opportunities for students and adult…

Trades at a Tipping Point

Explore how workforce trends, emerging technologies, safety requirements, and evolving CTE programs are reshaping the design of modern career and technical education…

Environment as a Tool — Beyond the Classroom Door: Designing Cafeterias, Commons, and Hallways That Support Self-Regulation

Explore how cafeterias, commons, hallways, and transition spaces can reduce sensory overload and support student self-regulation, safety, and belonging.