CEFPI is a Registered Provider with The American Institute of
Architects Continuing Education Systems (AIA/CES). Credit(s)
earned on completion of this program will be reported to AIA/CES for
AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and
non-AIA members are available upon request.
This program is registered with AIA/CES for continuing professional
education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or
construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material
of construction or any method or manner of handling, using,
distributing, or dealing in any material or product.
Questions related to specific materials, methods, and services will be
addressed at the conclusion of each presentation.
Learning Objectives
STEM – A National and International Perspective
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how the world of education has changed over the last decade
and how those changes will affect educational design.
2. Explore how disruptive technology, blended learning and global competition
will force an educational design revolution, especially as it relates to
entrepreneurship.
3. Learn about planning strategies to help bring school design into the 21st
century.
4. Understand how to better engage our key constituency, the students.
Learning Objectives
Of the People, By the People, and For the People – CommunityCentered Learning Environments for the 21st Century
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Learn about a tried and true community based process for school facilities
programming and design.
2. Explore how all community stakeholders were actively and authentically
involved in the design of a new school in Alexandria, Virginia.
3. Learn about the connections between school design and community
programming.
4. Explore some natural principles of Systems Thinking and how they relate to
school facilities design.
Learning Objectives
Facilities Matter – A Systemic Approach to Building 21st Century
Schools
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how a school district leverages public school lands.
2. Understand how to engage the community via the Nexus Concept*
(developed by Concordia, LLC).
3. Implement legal and policy reform and develop a financing mechanism.
4. Design a long-range systemic plan.
Learning Objectives
The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how educators can use vibrant techniques to keep the attention
of students and how classroom design can help that.
2. Explore how design can support and atmosphere of civility in the classroom
and be conducive to learning.
3. Consider design solutions that support innovation, while teachers apply
innovative ways to instill manners and respect.
4. Investigate ways to instill in students global awareness.
Learning Objectives
Visible Learning and the Third Teacher
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand John Hattie’s "Visible Learning".
2. Explore some of the design solutions presented in "The Third Teacher" and
build connections with creating learning environments where the tenets of
"Visible Learning" are embraced.
3. Engage in a conversation between educators and architects on design
solutions for learning..
4. Be more inspired to work together-architects and educators to transform the
education landscape.
Learning Objectives
Student Engagement – Creating Relevant Learning
Opportunities During Design & Construction Projects
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Learn from practical experience how to involve students, in a relevant and
educational way, in a design and construction project.
2. Gain valuable lessons learned from a case study example of an integrated
design and construction curriculum.
3. Hear from school faculty about how students were included in the design
and construction process and what feedback they received in post-project
review.
4. Leave with creative ideas that can be utilized in their own upcoming projects.
Learning Objectives
How an Integrated Team Approach Saved Jefferson-Houston
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand challenges associated with developing and implementing
innovative design concepts.
2. Explore techniques for effectively managing client decision making and
external influences and understand the impact on project planning.
3. Consider key components of an effectively integrated project team and their
respective importance to a project’s success.
4. Investigate some of the latest concepts in designing dining, sustainability,
exterior classrooms, and performing arts spaces in schools.
Learning Objectives
Wakefield High School – A Community Gateway
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand methods for collaboration with the wider community during the
design process.
2. Explore Integration of Community Uses in a Public High School.
3. Consider creation of ample project-based learning spaces that can also
serve the public.
4. Investigate environmental strategies which benefit the community.
Learning Objectives
Student Design Competition Winners
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how the proposed learning environment connects learning to the
community and benefits both.
2. Examine how the school of the future helps students tie learning to real life.
3. Consider how learning is better in the environment they have created.
4. Investigate how the unique design of learning environments ensures health
and safety of students, staff and community, preserves the environment,
saves energy and engages the community.
Learning Objectives
Optimizing Teaching & Learning Through Responsive STEM
Strategies
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Learn about trends in STEM education from a state and national
perspective.
2. Understand how STEM programs are being addressed at both the middle
and high school levels with issues that are both similar and different.
3. Learn about the process and steps a student driven project will take to move
through a STEM lab.
4. Learn about the physical environments that help facilitate a STEM education.
Learning Objectives
Found Space: Infill Design Case Studies to Maximize
Educational Outcomes and Conserve Real Estate
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the key issues for review when considering reuse over new
construction.
2. Explore cost and schedule opportunities when repurposing space.
3. Consider effective methods for planning an infill project.
4. Investigate value and environmental benefit of repurposing existing space.
Learning Objectives
Synthetic Turf – What We’ve Learned Over the Years
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Learn about Synthetic Turf Design.
2. Learn about Synthetic Turf Systems.
3. Learn about Aggregate Base and Drainage Systems for Synthetic Turf
Systems.
4. Learn about Synthetic turf testing and maintenance criteria.
Course Evaluations
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the evaluation for this course by logging into CES Discovery and
clicking on the Course Evaluation link on the left side of the page.
This concludes The American Institute of Architects
Continuing Education Systems Course