Sometimes architects stretch out there to try to create something new and fail because the educators haven't participated in the solution. If the educators don't buy into it and aren't willing to teach in that environment, it's not going to work. I'm excited about some of the middle school concepts that are catching on and moving into the high schools. I see it as a more pronounced change and adjustment in the way we look at the delivery of the educational curriculum of any that this country's gone through in many, many years. Smaller, more intimate spaces, more real-world relationships, more interdisciplinary curriculum delivery, team teaching.
Teachers can learn to work together and show kids that there's an interconnectedness among subjects.
Maybe you're a great mathematician, but if you can't communicate with people, you can't get your ideas across. It doesn't work very well to give kids 50 minutes to learn math, and 50 minutes later they're expected to learn social studies, and 50 minutes later they're expected to learn something else, and there's no interrelationship between them. You want a school that is welcoming in appearance. You want some color, you want some interest, you want people to feel good about the entry. And it goes without saying that it needs to function.