Willard PK-12 Tour Summary

What features that you saw would help you be a better teacher?

• Teacher workroom close to set of classrooms
• Grade-level classrooms together in a pod with intervention space and locker space
• Collaboration space
• Flexible spaces for pull-outs, occupational & speech therapy, resource room
• Decision on seating choices by grade level / some more flexible than others
• Movable casework
• Elementary classrooms with sinks
• PK/K rooms with restrooms
• Glass doors – closed to keep separate or open for collaboration
• Use of color, especially in lower grades
• Use of “outdoors inside” / enclosed outdoor space / Outdoor performance area in courtyard
• Fine arts all together in their

2. What about the building would appeal to students and support student academic achievement?

• Pod area to themselves (ownership-flexibility)
• Playground (with safety designed into it)
• Color
• Classrooms are larger
• Wall murals about local businesses / positive quotes
• Speakers/sound system in every room / amplification systems
• Nice lockers
• Natural lighting
• Outdoor learning / courtyard
• Good technology
• Sound barriers in open areas
• It didn’t look like a school
• Security system /cameras
• Sinks outside of elementary bathrooms
• DID NOT LIKE
• Media center
• Weak facility design
• Stationary teacher desks

3. What community use aspects of the building would appeal to our district residents?

• Staffed, exercise facility w/treadmills, elliptical machines, walking track, etc.
  • One door access
  • No access to academic area
• Trophy cases, tribute mural walls
• School spirit graphics
• Safety buttons and associated training
• Energy-efficiency
• Historical things from our old buildings / heritage wall
• Easy visibility on main entrance, visitor parking, etc. – inside too
• Steel beams
• Dedicated bus loop
• Walk-in clinic during school hours
• DID NOT LIKE
• Bus traffic flow
• Inconvenient parking
• Not sure how cafetorium really would work for presentations