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Courtney Sevigny

Courtney Sevigny

Learning Environment SpecialistVS America

Courtney Sevigny is an accomplished educator, school leader, and Learning Environment Specialist with more than twenty years of experience advancing transformational change in K–12 education. Her work spans classroom teaching, instructional leadership, and systems-level initiatives. She collaborates with architects, designers, district leaders, and educators to align pedagogy, design, and well-being. Courtney brings experience across visioning, planning, implementation, and post-occupancy support, guiding schools through instructional and cultural transitions so learning environments meaningfully serve teachers and students.

Thu Oct 29•2:00 PM – 3:00 PM•Learning Space 2502A: Exhibit Concepts/MUZO

Designing for Instructional Impact: Beyond Good, Better, Best

School districts are being asked to deliver more with less: limited budgets, limited space, and rising expectations for student success. This session

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School districts are being asked to deliver more with less: limited budgets, limited space, and rising expectations for student success. This session addresses a critical challenge in K–12 planning and design: how to evaluate learning environments no

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School districts are being asked to deliver more with less: limited budgets, limited space, and rising expectations for student success. This session addresses a critical challenge in K–12 planning and design: how to evaluate learning environments not by what they promise, but by how they actually perform during instruction. Rather than framing decisions as “good, better, best,” this session shifts the conversation to a more meaningful question:

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School districts are being asked to deliver more with less: limited budgets, limited space, and rising expectations for student success. This session addresses a critical challenge in K–12 planning and design: how to evaluate learning environments not by what they promise, but by how they actually perform during instruction. Rather than framing decisions as “good, better, best,” this session shifts the conversation to a more meaningful question: What is the design doing during instruction? Using authentic K–12 classroom examples, step into the rhythm of a typical class period to examine how learning environments either support or disrupt teaching and learning in real time. Across a range of settings and budget levels explore how design choices can preserve instructional momentum or introduce friction that affects engagement, focus, movement, and participation. 

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EDsession (60 minutes in classrooms)Session TypeTRACK 3: From Vision to Reality — Planning, funding, delivery, operations, and safetySession Track
CEU Credits:1.00
Jill Ackers
Jill AckersDirector of Education, VS America
Courtney Sevigny
Courtney SevignyLearning Environment Specialist, VS America
Tags:Group B
Capacity Unlimited:Yes
CEU Selection:AIA HSW, IDCEC HSW
Cvent Session ID:66ab40d8-05e1-4237-a26a-4df630d3e890