Educational Visioning

The Purpose of a Facility Master Plan is to ensure that facilities support the vision for educational outcomes. With an understanding of California education standards and curriculum frameworks, the planning team worked closely with the District to identify ways facilities could better support the activities and experiences of respective users. 

The Student Experience 

Student developmental needs evolve. The educational experience's vision is designed to support students' current stage of development and foster long-term growth.

The Role of Facilities
Space facilitates experience. The role of the school facility is to support the experiences that aid in achieving desired outcomes. Facilities should support and enhance multi-modal, social, and emotional learning.​They should also serve as spaces that support strong work cultures and professional connections for adults.

School facilities are also community assets. The outside community's access to and interaction with these spaces should be given strong consideration.

Vision for the Student Experience
Stakeholders shared various ideas for how their environments might support engaging learning experiences. Common themes emerged, which highlighted the desire for flexible learning environments, connectivity, and spaces that support hands-on and experiential learning, student wellness, athletics and extracurricular programs, and operational efficiency.

BIG IDEAS

The inclusive engagement process surfaced a range of perspectives—but also a clear consensus around a set of guiding priorities, or “Big Ideas,” that reflect what school leadership and communities believe are essential to the future of PESD facilities. These Big Ideas reflect a shared vision for how facilities can better support learning, wellness, and equity across the district. Through stakeholder input and data analysis, several common themes have emerged: the need to modernize aging systems, create flexible and program-aligned learning environments, improve campus safety and site circulation, replace portable classrooms with permanent buildings, and expand support spaces for counseling, early education, and student services.