Architect Continuing Ed

Courses for topics from wellness, outdoor learning environments, and specialized areas such as esports and trauma-informed microenvironments.

  • Environment as a Tool — Within Arm’s Reach: Proximity, Line-of-Sight, and Agentic Engagement by Design

    Environment as a Tool — Within Arm’s Reach: Proximity, Line-of-Sight, and Agentic Engagement by Design

    Explore how circulation, sightlines, and furniture placement give teachers freedom to move while giving students greater agency in how they learn.

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  • Environment as a Tool — The Stuff Problem: Using Storage Research to Free the Student-Centered Classroom

    Environment as a Tool — The Stuff Problem: Using Storage Research to Free the Student-Centered Classroom

    Explore how smarter classroom storage can reduce clutter, free student movement, support modern instruction, and turn static classrooms into adaptable learning environments.

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  • Environment as a Tool — Reading the Room: A Leader’s Overview of How Built Environments Shape Behavior, Engagement, and Learning

    Environment as a Tool — Reading the Room: A Leader’s Overview of How Built Environments Shape Behavior, Engagement, and Learning

    Explore how learning environment design influences student behavior, engagement and well-being through sensory, spatial, social and structural decisions.

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  • Where Thinking Meets Doing — Designing Secondary Learning Environments for Cognitive Engagement

    Where Thinking Meets Doing — Designing Secondary Learning Environments for Cognitive Engagement

    Explore how elementary learning environments can spark deeper thinking through choice, movement, collaboration, visibility, and belonging.

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  • Designing for Thinking — Cognitive Engagement in Elementary Learning Environments

    Designing for Thinking — Cognitive Engagement in Elementary Learning Environments

    Explore how elementary learning environments can spark deeper thinking through choice, movement, collaboration, visibility, and belonging.

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  • How Learning Environments Shape Student Thinking

    How Learning Environments Shape Student Thinking

    Explore how classroom design influences attention, participation, collaboration, student agency, and deeper learning.

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  • Movement, Music, and Memory: Designing Spaces for Whole-Body Learning

    Movement, Music, and Memory: Designing Spaces for Whole-Body Learning

    Explore how movement, music, and sensory-rich design can strengthen memory, support well-being, and create more engaging learning experiences.

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  • Engaging Young Minds: Designing Spaces that Spark Curiosity and Learning

    Engaging Young Minds: Designing Spaces that Spark Curiosity and Learning

    Explore how thoughtful classroom design can spark curiosity, encourage play, and support the developmental needs of young learners.

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  • The Whole Genius — Designing for the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Lives of Gifted Learners

    The Whole Genius — Designing for the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Lives of Gifted Learners

    Explore how thoughtful learning space design can support the cognitive, sensory, and social-emotional needs of gifted and twice-exceptional students.

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