The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning

Created by an international team of architects and designers concerned about our failing education system, The Third Teacher explores the critical link between the school environment and how children learn, and offers 79 practical design ideas, both great and small, to guide reader’s efforts to improve our schools. Written for anyone who has school-age children in their life, from educators and education decision-makers to parents and community activists, this book is intended to ignite a blaze of discussion and initiative about environment as an essential element of learning. Including a wealth of interviews, facts, statistics, and stories from experts in a wide range of fields, this book is a how-to guide to be used to connect with the many organizations, individuals, and ideas dedicated to innovating and improving teaching and learning. Contributors include children’s singer and advocate Raffi, author and creativity consultant Sir Ken Robinson, scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki, inventor James Dyson, and other experts who are working to create fresh solutions to problems and create a new blueprint for the future of education.

• Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning
• Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration
• The Space: A Guide for Educators
• The Language of School Design: Design Patterns for 21st Century Schools. Revised 3rd Edition - Dec. 2013
• Redesigning Learning Spaces (Corwin Connected Educators Series)
• What′s in Your Space?: 5 Steps for Better School and Classroom Design
• The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World
• The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
• Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
• The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education: Fostering Responsibility, Healing, and Hope in Schools (Justice and Peacebuilding)