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October 5, 2017
Check out my latest DLR Group Insight!
In 1999, the oft-cited Heschong Mahone study revealing the importance of daylighting was published. The research correlated the prominence of daylighting to improved elementary student test scores, pushing the pendulum away from ar...
August 17, 2017
Check out my latest DLR Group Insight!
As I've reached the halfway point of my Fulbright scholarship, I took an opportunity to revisit conversations I had with leaders from 15 Texas school districts prior to my February 2017 departure for Australia. Districts ranged fro...
April 13, 2017
Last week I had the pleasure of spending a day with James Riggall in Launceston, Tasmania (pronounced lawn-sest-un for those like me who struggle...). As soon as we met last month we hit it off with our mutual interest in co-working, the maker movement, and education s...
February 13, 2017
It has been well over a year since I began conversations with LEaRN about joining their team and thus, plenty of built up anticipation. I am glad to say that in my first two weeks they have lived up to my expectations 100%.
My goal is to have at least a blog post...
October 19, 2016
Check out this video about the research I'll be joining next year. While this highlights the issues from the Australian lens, schools throughout the United States also struggle to help teachers transition to teaching in innovative spaces. Often, new spaces are designed...
August 14, 2016
Next year, I will be heading to Melbourne, Australia to study school design and use as a Fulbright Post-Graduate Scholar. It has been a long process - I started my first application in June of 2014 and after not being selected on my first attempt, I tried again and fou...
I will be spending the majority of 2017 working with the Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILE+TC) research study with the University of Melbourne's Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN). I will also be working with various partner organizations, particularly Hayball Architects, Telstra, and Ecophon Saint-Gobain to dive deep into architecture, technology, and acoustics respectively. This page will feature posts related to this research and allow you to stay plugged in participating schools and their experiences, my work with partner organizations, and my thoughts on its ongoing incorporation into the design process and needs for organizational alignment.