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Tools, insights, and inspiration for school leaders, architects, and changemakers creating learning environments that put students first.

Our new book

Radically Student Centered™

Learning Space Integration for Lasting Impact

By Kevin Stoller · Foreword by Dr. Robert Dillon

  • People
  • Pedagogy
  • Place

Schools invest enormous resources into buildings, renovations, and furniture, yet the systems guiding those decisions were never designed to align space, learning, and implementation around students. Even well-funded, well-intentioned projects often fall short of their potential.

This book names that gap and introduces a new category to close it: Learning Space Integration, and the role of the Learning Space Integrator, a partner responsible for aligning purpose, process, and people so learning environments actually work.

“This book defines a problem school leaders have felt for years but have not fully diagnosed: we spend millions on buildings without aligning space, vision, and practice.”

Nathan Strenge, Senior Learning Designer, Fielding International

“Learning Space Integration is the category schools and designers have been missing. This book reframes learning environments as systems — not just spaces.”

Brenda Swirczynski, MSc, ALEP, Educational Planner, Former K–12 Educator

Free for school districts

The LSI Toolkit

Four ready-to-use procurement tools for selecting a Learning Space Integrator through a qualifications-based process. Edit them to fit your district and state requirements.

  1. Process to Solicit an LSI

    A four-phase procurement guide with checklists, a timeline, and award letter templates.

  2. RFQ Template

    A complete Request for Qualifications with conflict-of-interest disclosure and school-by-school scope.

  3. Evaluation Scorecard

    A nine-criteria rubric with 29 scored sub-criteria, plus an Excel calculator that weights and ranks firms.

  4. Finalist Interview Guide

    A structured interview, a 19-question bank, anti-bias rules, and a reference check guide.

New to the idea? Learn what a Learning Space Integrator does.

Lookbook · Gallery of Inspiration

Bridging the Gap: Where Pedagogy Meets Place

A field guide to 12 learning environments designed around the student

Explore how schools across the country have transformed their learning environments through Kay-Twelve’s Radically Student Centered™ approach. The lookbook showcases real projects that show what’s possible when educational vision and physical space are intentionally aligned.

Inside the lookbook

  • Inspiring learning environments from districts nationwide
  • Design ideas for classrooms, commons, libraries, CTE spaces, and more
  • Before-and-after transformations that support student success
  • How Learning Space Integration connects pedagogy, people, and place
  • Practical ideas to help shape your next renovation or new construction project

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