Pre-AP English Period 7 is designing a student study space to suggest to the administration at the end of the school year, after posing the question “How can we take advantage of the spaces of the school so that there are more spaces for the students to work in?”

After a great deal of research on student needs and space design, proposals from each student (see blogs), and multiple discussions, the students have decided to make two proposals to the administration:

1) Build a large common room between the A & B wings where High School students can work on individual and collaborative assignments without the distractions currently present in other spaces.

2) Add modular furniture to existing spaces where students currently congregate, but sit on floors or benches that make work difficult.

Today, the students began measuring the spaces and creating their own diagrams so that they can identify furniture they would like to include and begin creating a budget. They will also be requesting a meeting with school architects to help make their building project proposal as accurate as possible.

You can read students’ original proposals on their blog posts.