“What I like about the Zone is that as teachers, we no longer have to make compromises in our lessons to narrow down our ideas to conform to the space. The new spaces invite collaboration, creativity and kinaesthetic learning.”

“180 (kids) + 6 (teachers) + 1 (large open collaborative learning space) + 1 (wireless environment) = 0 (discipline problems)”

The factory classroom is dead: long live the learning community

Northern Beaches Christian School (twitter @SCIL) is moving into the future by re-conceptualising learning spaces.

• What if schools were no longer organised around separation, but collaboration?
• What if space became flexible and there were no longer 50 classrooms to allocate, rather 100 spaces from which to choose?
• What if inquiry-based collaborative learning became the predominant paradigm?
• What if students were empowered to learn?
• What if school was not only deeply engaging, but fun as well?