Stories

Cleaner Classrooms Start with Summer HVAC Work

Key Takeaways: Summer is the best time for school HVAC maintenance: duct cleaning, filter replacement, ventilation checks and humidity control can all happen without disrupting instruction. Poor indoor air quality...

State Budget Advances Major School Construction in Connecticut

Key Takeaways: Connecticut’s $28.1 billion budget funds $150.6 million for six K-12 school construction projects across Milford, Norwich, Seymour, Stamford, Waterbury and Westport. The state’s school construction reimbursement model uses...

Preventing Challenging Behavior Through Classroom Design

Key Takeaways: Challenging behavior in early childhood is often triggered by environment and routine, including sensory overload, poor sightlines and unclear transitions, not by the child alone. Classroom design prevents...

What Rising Temperatures Mean for School Facilities

Key Takeaways: Rising heat waves are disrupting school operations, stressing aging facilities, and creating health risks for students and staff. Effective school heat action plans set clear temperature thresholds, assign...

School District Summer Construction Strategy

Key Takeaways: School district summer construction should start with a building-use audit to identify instructional space needs and build a phased capital plan tied to multi-year goals. Go to market...

What Inclusive Play Looks Like in Practice

Key Takeaways: Radio Flyer and Understood.org updated three products using universal design principles to better support children with sensory and physical needs in school and early childhood settings. Universal design...