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Tour & Happy Hour
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Tour: MiEN Landing
5:00 pm Eastern
1661 Monroe Ave. NW
Parking near the corner of North Monroe and Ann Street
Happy Hour: MiEN Showroom
6:00 – 8:00 pm Eastern
2547 3 Mile Rd NW STE F,
Grand Rapids, MI 49534
Parking on the north east side of the building
MiEN Landing
A guided tour of the 150-year old furniture factory that will become the world headquarters of MiEN Environments. We will discuss the history of the building and our plans to modernize it over the next couple of years. Afterwards, we will head over to the current MiEN showroom for some food and drinks.
Learning Objectives:
- We will discuss how reuse of a this historic factory is a tribute to the Dutch furniture makers, who made Grand Rapids their home.
- We will also highlight how this large space fits into our environmental goals, while helping us cultivate new furniture concepts for the education industry.
- Finally, we'll discuss how this project fits into the Grand Rapids Whitewater plan for restoring the river.
Members / Public Sector: Free | Non-Members: $20
Event Sponsor:
Educators Educating Us Event
October 26, 2022
3:00 – 4:00 PM Central
We Live in a Designed World
In this session of Educators Educating Us, Linda Nelson Keane will share; ‘We live in a Designed World’ which is a toolkit that teachers, students, and families can use to connect with the place in which they live, learn, work and play with creative careers. With the
NEXT.cc STEAM by DESIGN E-learning resource we can learn about nature and the built environment together and find a place to contribute.
Linda Nelson Keane, FAIA, AIADO
Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
This is a free event!
The Zoom link will be sent the day prior to anyone who registered.
Educators Educating Us Event
August 31, 2022
3:00 PM Central
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Designing for People, Pedagogy, and Place
In the most successful learning spaces, form and function blend in order to support both teaching and learning. In this way, the spaces themselves support the pedagogical strategy of the school. Before students ever set foot in these spaces, it is important that the school community has made a collective commitment to a chosen pedagogical strategy. From project-based learning to inquiry-based learning, different pedagogical models have different space needs.
Learning Objectives:
- How can spaces in our schools enhance the learning outcomes we want.
- Helping schools arrive at these shifts on their own through intentional activities.
- Tools to hopefully help you continue to support schools in this work of thinking differently about spaces.
Travis Lape
Travis is passionate about creating learning environments that leverage the best instructional practices that we know get the largest effect on learning. In 2015, Travis was recognized for his work with integrating technology into classrooms by being named TIE Technology Leader of the Year. Travis believes that by empowering learners to drive their learning we can start to create a new system that honors all learners and their cultures. When Travis is not at work you can find him spending time together with his wife Lynn and their two boys DJ (4) and Tyler (1).
This is a free event!
The Zoom link will be sent the day prior to anyone who registered.
Virtual Presentation
December 8, 2021
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern
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Passcode: DUpK#6hS
“Educators Educating Us!”
Linking SEL, Multiple Intelligences, and Educational Environments, to Support All Educators and Learners
Space and Multiple Intelligences
Drawing from his years leading a multiple intelligences school and his experiences in teaching at a university, Dr. Tom Hoerr will share the theory of multiple intelligences and show how space can be – should be - a powerful factor in a school’s culture. “Ambient learning” should be the norm, i.e., everyone feels values and learns simply from walking through the halls.
Learning objectives for this session include: (1) an understanding of multiple intelligences; (2) an appreciation for the role that space plays in culture: and (3) seeing examples of how space can be used to facilitate education.
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Speaker
Thomas R. Hoerr, PhD
Scholar in Residence, UMSL
Emeritus Head, New City School
www.thomasrhoerr.com
Dr. Tom Hoerr led schools for 37 years and is currently a Scholar In Residence at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he teaches in the educational leadership program. He holds a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, has received honorary doctorates from two universities, and is the Emeritus Head of School of the New City School.
Hoerr’s newest book is
The Principal As Chief Empathy Officer: Creating A Culture Where Everyone Grows. In his last book,
Taking Social Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff, he showed how school culture can be a tool to prepare students to succeed in life. His previous book,
The Formative Five: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs, set out the success skills that students need. Hoerr also wrote four other books:
Fostering Grit;
The Art of School Leadership;
Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School; and
School Leadership for the Future. He currently writes a monthly blog for ASCD, and has written more than 160 articles. His “Principal Connection” column was published in Educational Leadership 2004-2018. Hoerr has presented at conferences around the world on grit, leadership, multiple intelligences, faculty collegiality, social-emotional learning, and the Formative Five.
Free to attend.
Registration closes at 5:00 pm on December 7, 2021.
The link will be sent to all registered participants before 12:00 pm on December 8, 2021.
We will be giving away 3 of Dr. Hoerr’s book: Taking Social-Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff
Virtual Event
May 27, 2021
4:00 – 5:00 pm
“Educators Educating Us!”
UDL: How can the science behind learning inform more effective Instructional practices and impact space design for Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive opportunities for all learners?
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an internationally recognized framework to improve, optimize and create equitable diverse and inclusive teaching and learning opportunities for all people. UDL is based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Developed by neuro-psychologists at Harvard, UDL takes advantage of innovative instructional methodologies, flexible diverse technologies, and space design to support variabilities across all learners. This session will introduce attendees to:
- An overview of UDL
- How UDL practices can shift teaching and learning practices
- How to use principles of UDL to think more intentionally about learning space design
Facilitators will share examples of how UDL creates equitable diverse and inclusive opportunities for all learners. They will also introduce attendees to the Deck of Spaces which identifies some specific examples of how space design helps support goals for achieving diversity, equity & inclusion – better meeting the needs of all learner variabilities.
Presenters
Susan Hardin, Universal Design for Learning Coordinator at Macomb ISD in Michigan
David Reid, Architect and Principal at Gould Evans, in Kansas City Missouri
Members / School Districts: FREE | Non-members $20
Virtual Event
March 11, 2021
4:00 – 5:00 pm
TBD
“Innovation in Education Event” featuring our special series of “Educators Educating US!”
We’ll explore the ways in which pedagogical innovation and cutting-edge design impact the relationship between facilities and learning and how changes in pedagogy converge with design.
Perrysburg Schools’ new state of the art STEM 5-6 grade school, Hull Prairie Intermediate School, was designed to reinforce collaboration and teaming. The school is only one of 42 schools in Ohio to receive STEM recognition; part of a statewide push to find ways to make learning more engaging for students. New features include flexible learning environments, open collaborative spaces, STEM, Music, Art and Innovation spaces to create a dynamic multi-purpose venue to meet a wide variety of needs and styles. The Collaborative TMP Architecture and Perrysburg Schools collaborated to create a unique, student-centered learning environment by examining current curricular learning objectives and designing spaces to reflect these trends.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify key programmatic building elements – centralized STEM labs, open collaboration areas, outdoor learning spaces – that support innovative teaching & learning techniques.
- Learn how flexible learning environments and integration of technology support progressive approaches to specific instructional activities.
- Explore the innovative methodology for professional development used to reinforce the overall vision of the school.
- Discover how to develop curricular partnerships that promote community & student engagement.
Presenters
- Mr. Scott A. Best, Principal, Hull Prairie Intermediate School, Perrysburg Schools, Ohio
[email protected], Cell: 419.819.8809 or School: 419.873.6293
- Mr. Jason Hubbard, STEM Educator, Hull Prairie Intermediate School, Perrysburg Schools, Ohio
Members / School Districts: FREE | Non-members $20
Registration closes at 9:00 am on March 11, 2021.
The Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants before 2:00 pm on March 11, 2021.