This will promote a healthier community exchange. Allocate new and existing spaces within the school that foster interchange and dialogue by providing parent information centers, opening up the media center for public use, and in short, allowing the school to be a place of community life-long learning. We all know about these design strategies. Optimal learning environments foster strong formal and informal leaders where teachers are treated as professionals. Positive educational leadership is the catalyst that encourages a positive school climate.
Leadership often means delegating responsibilities.
In the case of schools, teachers must be a part of the leadership team. Provide private workplaces for teachers, away from students, for them to be creative and engage in personal inquiry, and to plan learning activities. Teacher workrooms need to be transformed into teacher studios that include private workspaces, teaming spaces and areas for private reflection. Ultimately, optimal learning environments are about learning not about supervision, lock-down, or controlling behavior in the classroom. Teaching and administration are simply support functions to the central task of learning.