Frank Locker
Leader in School Learning Architecture
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Boston, MA, United States
Frank Locker
Biography
Honored as a Planner of the Year by the Council of Educational Facilities Planners, International, Frank has taught at the university level, and is a trained facilitator and a registered architect. He conceived and co-teaches the Harvard University School of Education/School of Design course for educators and architects, Effective Education/Innovative Learning Environments.
A frequent speaker at international, national, and regional school planning conferences, his recent keynote addresses have been in Vancouver; Dallas; London and Manchester, England; Frankfurt; and Abu Dhabi. Frank is an affiliate of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. His focus is on transformed education and the facilities that support it. Recent and upcoming topics have included:
-High Performing Learning Places
-School Transformation: Practices, Process and Places of Best and Next Practices
-Emerging Best Practices
-School Buildings -The State of Affairs
-State School Design Standards: Can't Live with Them; Can't Live without Them
-How to Create a Successful Master Plan
-Effective Schools; Innovative Facilities, Differentiated Learning Through Innovative School -Design
-School Design in the 21st Century
-Linking Student Success to School Facilities
-School of the Future
-Goldfish and Water
-Team Teaching and Integrated Learning
-Innovation in School Facilities: Planning, Places, + Process
Frank Locker
Featured Video
Current: Frank Locker: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
Time 18:36
Frank Locker
Featured Keynote Programs
Making Things To Learn
Making things to learn is the driving force behind two closely
related innovations in education: design thinking and maker
thinking. Design thinking recognizes that the processes routinely
employed by designers such as architects and industrial
designers embody many highly valued 21st-century skills:
innovation, creativity, problem solving, critical thinking and
collaboration. Maker thinking expands the concept to embrace the understanding that knowledge can be constructed by making things.
Frank discusses the importance of recognizing these two educational concepts along with the power of creating academic facilities to cultivate these skills in students.
Swiss Cheese Schools
Frank discusses the power of knocking down the school walls...literally. Learn how removing these physical barriers opens up opportunities for collaboration, and connectivity that is essential for 21st Century learning.
The Future Is Here
A new and collaborative learning environment is key to preparing students for success in the 21st Century. Frank has seen the power of this type of environment first hand, which led to higher graduation rates and scores on state standardized tests.
Learn how educators are building the future now and facilitating new opportunities to prepare their students for the present and beyond.
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