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The Indoor Learning Commons can be built out at a new campus. It supports multiple learning styles simultaneously and serves as an extension of the footprint of the Learning Studios. Commons can also support the vertical and horizontal collaboration is occurring within OUSD. The Commons must have a direct line of sight from the studios for supervisions and to encourage students to take ownership of their learning. The space should ideally be sized to accommodate one Small Learning Community of 150 students for a gathering or presentation. The space can serve as a shared resource for other large groups such as after school programs, and staff professional development. Courses with low enrollment can be taught in a zone of the commons instead of a Learning Studio. Media Resources can be accessed here, and the highly agile space can be outfitted with project tables to support wet and messy project-based learning and eating.
The Ed Specs serve to illustrate concepts that will inform the master plans based on OUSD's aspirations to the audience of future architects who will implement them as well as for OUSD stakeholders to understand the reasoning behind modernizations.
Project Support
Provide space where students can spread out for projects with storage for work in progress.
Comfortable Seating
Provide a variety of seating to empower students with choice to choose what suits their needs and provide variety in body posture.
Easy Supervision
Provide a line of sight for supervision of students in one class using more than one space.
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Variety of Zones
Provide learning environments that vary in shape and size.
Small Groups
Provide space defined for breakout spaces for small groups to collaborate.
Resizable Zones
Provide learning spaces that can expand and contract to support shared use by different programs.
Transparency
Provide transparency to make the learning taking place explicit, to support the synergy between programs and make student supervision easy.
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Writeable Surfaces
Provide writeable surfaces for brainstorming and active learning that supports movement.
Acoustics
Plan acoustical enhancement for an acceptable level of interior learning space "buzz" with noise absorbed by soft fixtures and furnishings.
Pin Up
Provide pin up for students to share work such as gallery walks during class time.?
Digital Display
Provide digital displays for student-centered learning. Provide a setting for listening and viewing a lecture or demonstration with digital display and sound amplification.
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Easy to Reconfigure
Provide learning spaces agile enough to be reconfigured quickly by students and teachers with no help from Maintenance and Operations staff.
Student Display
Provide 2D and 3D display in highly trafficked learning environments.
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Industry Partners
Provide space to invite industry partners to work with high school students within the line of sight of school staff.
Labs Expansion
Provide adjacent space for the learning taking place in labs to spill out onto.
Technology Rich
Provide computer labs, technology carts, or 1-on-1 tools for technology to be used in a fluid manner in the inquiry-based learning cycle.
Flexible Walls
Provide walls that can open up to make rooms larger for team teaching or expanding the classroom's footprint.
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