At first, we thought Patti Purcell thought quite differently than most elementary school principals. My SWA colleagues, John Loomis and Yoonju Kametani, and I were meeting with Patti to get her thoughts about a new outdoor classroom that we were designing for Bel Air School in Tiburon, California. “When students move on to 6th grade… Read more »
At first, we thought Patti Purcell thought quite differently than most elementary school principals. My SWA colleagues, John Loomis and Yoonju Kametani, and I were meeting with Patti to get her thoughts about a new outdoor classroom that we were designing for Bel Air School in Tiburon, California. “When students move on to 6th grade and up, all they really want to do is to hang with their friends, so why don’t we make this space for them to learn how to hang? Even a 5th grader needs to know how to hang properly.” (more…)
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