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How Biophilic School Design Removes Barriers to Learning

This session empowers you to activate biophilic design on your campus and advocate for nature as a requirement of all school facilities improvements projects targeted at removing barriers to learning.

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Have you ever been moved to wonder and awe by studying a flower or gazing out upon a sunset? If so, then you have experienced Biophilia, love of nature. In this sensory immersive talk you will hear how incorporating biophilic design strategies on your campus removes barriers to learning by improving student emotional wellbeing, circadian system functioning, and cognition. You will leave with the power to activate biophilic design on your campus and advocate for nature as a requirement of all school facilities improvements projects targeted at removing barriers to learning.

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Anna Harrison

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December 15, 2020

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Students are Humans. Nature is Universal.

Classrooms as Ecosystems

Kate Rancourt discusses the idea of an ecosystem of ‘regions’ within a classroom designed to inspire diversity and mimic what we encounter in the natural environment.

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Being in nature returns us to the environments where as humans we feel most at ease, and it reconnects us to our innate sense of creativity. What if classrooms could feel more like natural environments, helping to make us happier, more connected, and kinder learners and educators?  What if going back to our roots, connecting with nature and biophilic elements, could redefine what learning spaces could be?

Kate Rancourt discusses the idea of an ecosystem of ‘regions’ within a classroom designed to inspire diversity and mimic what we encounter in the natural environment. Starting from a place where learners are seen as humans first, we can understand the needs of the individual at a biological and psychological level and tap into our powerful relationships to nature. 

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Kate Rancourt

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The Higher Education Deck of Spaces

Introducing The Higher Education Deck of Spaces

Gain a new vocabulary and methodology you can take directly to your campus to support student engagement, faculty training, endowments, and more as we teach you how to use the UDL Learning Spaces Idea Kit for Higher Education.

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Space design strategy development at any level can be difficult to initiate. Whether it be within your college or department to full campus- or university- wide, come prepared with a UDL toolkit. Gain a new vocabulary and methodology you can take directly to your campus to support student engagement, faculty training, endowments, and more as we teach you how to use the UDL Learning Spaces Idea Kit for Higher Education.

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David Reid
James Basham

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March 23, 2021

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The Higher Education Deck of Spaces

Introducing The Higher Education Deck of Spaces

Gain a new vocabulary and methodology you can take directly to your campus to support student engagement, faculty training, endowments, and more as we teach you how to use the UDL Learning Spaces Idea Kit for Higher Education.

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Space design strategy development at any level can be difficult to initiate. Whether it be within your college or department to full campus- or university- wide, come prepared with a UDL toolkit. Gain a new vocabulary and methodology you can take directly to your campus to support student engagement, faculty training, endowments, and more as we teach you how to use the UDL Learning Spaces Idea Kit for Higher Education.

Session Video Recording Part One
Session Video Recording Part Two
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Interactive Notes Document

Authors/Creators
David Reid
James Basham

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March 23, 2021

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