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The New Century School House was created and is maintained by David Warlick and The Landmark Project.

Project Guidelines

ClassPict.jpgThe best ideas about redefining education will come from "outside the box." These will be ideas that make no assumptions about what schools SHOULD be like. In an attempt to facilitate this "outside the box" style of thinking, you should avoid where at all possible using terms in your room and component descriptions that create in the innocent passerby the image of a traditional, industrial age classroom.

Description Style

Make your description practical.  They should include philosophical ideas about styles of learning and teaching, but also describe in appropriate detail exactly what students and educational staff will do in your room. The purpose of this project is to describe what should be happening in our schools and what our learning evironments need to facilitate these activities.

Words & phrases to avoid are:

Classroom
Teacher
Student
"Columns of Desks" (this one will deliver a mild electrical shock through your keyboard)
Detention
Social Studies Class, Science Class, etc.