Earthman, 2013 Glen Earthman speaks directly to educational administrators, explaining the educational facility planning process in clear and concise terms. His thorough and comprehensive description provides school leaders a valuable set of tools for meeting their obligations in ushering through school building projects. Readers benefit from Earthman’s future-focused view of school facility planning, including honest ...continue reading "Planning Educational Facilities: What Educators Need to Know"
National Science Teachers Association, 2007 For over 50 years, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has been providing information to teachers and schools regarding science facilities and equipment. To provide assistance in the design of secondary school science facilities, NSTA in 1954 published its first book on facilities, School Facilities for Science Instruction. This publication ...continue reading "NSTA Guide to PLANNING School Science Facilities"
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2008. The School Safety Planning Manual: Essential Resources for Developing Comprehensive Safe School Plan is a guide for the K–12 public school system to create and implement safety plans in compliance with both state and federal laws. View link
Education Law Center, 2005. The scope of this document is limited to the intersection of facilities planning and inclusion of students with disabilities. For further information about issues related to other aspects of facilities planning, you can visit ELC’s website at www.edlawcenter.org. With respect to other aspects of inclusion, please note that this document is ...continue reading "Long Range Facilities Planning And Design Implementation For Students with Disabilities: A Guide for New Jersey School Districts"
General School Facility Planning PK-12 Public Educational Facilities Master Plan Evaluation Guide (21st Century School Fund, 2011) Increasing Green School Participation Greening Our Nation’s K-12 Schools (Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, 2014) Planning with Facilities to Increase Academic Achievement The Interface Among Educational Outcomes and School Environment (Tanner, 2014) Do K-12 School Facilities Affect Educational ...continue reading "School Planning"
(2003). This guide was created by School Facilities Maintenance Task Force National Forum on Education Statistics and the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO®) Sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and the National Cooperative Education Statistics System. (Posted July 11, 2014). See Guide
Colorado School Safety Resource Center (CSSRC) (2012). This planning guide was modeled after the USDOE (2007) four-phase model of emergency planning: Prevention / Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery. In addition, this guide is in compliance with the Colorado Safe Schools Act CRS 22-32-109.1 which requires each school district to adopt and implement a safe schools ...continue reading "The Colorado School Safety Resource Center’s Comprehensive School Safety Planning Elements"
Litman, T. (2012). This paper discusses the concept of accessibility and how it can be incorporated in transport planning. Accessibility refers to people’s ability to reach goods, services and activities, which is the ultimate goal of most transport activity. Many factors affect accessibility, including mobility (physical movement), the quality and affordability of transport options, transport ...continue reading "Evaluating Accessibility for Transportation Planning"
Earthman, G. (2011). 2 (1) Originally, the purpose of the manuscript was to help members of a National Research Council Committee understand the process of planning school buildings in the public sector. It was intended to help members become familiar with the decisions that must be made and who was involved in that process. The ...continue reading "Decisions and Decisions-Makers in Planning Educational Facilities"
Gibson, H. J. (2011). 1 (1) This study begins by examining the relationship between public K-12 school facility age and student access to modern classroom technological resources, driven by questioning “newer equals better” assumptions. The method of analysis employed is multivariate cross-sectional regression. The unit of analysis is the individual school, by school type (elementary, ...continue reading "School facility age and classroom technology – The influence of stakeholder participation in the technology planning process."
