🡠 Education Specifications

Transitional Kindergarten / Kindergarten

As students transition from preschool to the elementary grades, play-based play remains important, especially for the school’s youngest students. The TK-K Learning cluster should be configured as its own community within the larger campus structure. Outdoor learning environments and play areas are easily accessible to all classrooms. Ideally, the TK-K community is located with easy and close access to a parent drop-off/pick-up area that is separate from the school’s main drop-off/pick-up area.

Spatial Characteristics

Flexible Furniture

To reconfigure rooms with a variety of spatial setups for different modes of learning. Open floor space to allow for sitting on the floor and circle time activities, as well as play-based learning stations.
Truckee Elementary
Storm Lake Early ES

Educational Technology

Shall be purposeful and age-appropriate. Classrooms will have wall-mounted interactive displays, sinks, and voice amplification systems. Consideration of appropriate and secure spaces for the storage of shared mobile carts to support the occasional use of student devices and well-placed outlets for flexible use of technology is important.
Storm Lake Early ES
Roosevelt ES

Outdoor Connections

Classrooms shall have direct views to the outside, plentiful natural daylight, and fresh air. Connection to natural landscape features will encourage healthy breaks from indoor focused learning.
Meadows ES
Lawson Early Education Center

Transitional Kindergarten

As students transition from preschool to the elementary grades, play-based learning remains important, especially for the school’s youngest students. TK spaces in particular will support sensory tables, mud kitchens, and dramatic play as well as spaces for art, music and movement, language and literacy, science, and mathematics and manipulatives.
Montgomery College Germantown Child Care
Culver City Child Development Center
Space Types
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