Findings about school designs

I found some interesting information about designing for schools, done by the American Architecture Foundation at the Design for Learning Forum.
Here are their ten findings:

+ Reinvent the design process to allow for greater innovation.
+ Design with flexibility in mind: give teachers and students the freedom and space for greater creativity in the learning process.
+ Respond more quickly to the ongoing paradigm change in teaching and learning.
+ Create stronger links to education reformers seeking to close the achievement gap and design with 21st century skills in mind.
+ Recognize the power of technology as well as its limits.
+ Make the design process more inclusive: recognize the voice of students and the role of citizen designers.
+ Design for the Age Wave: recognize that in this era of life-long learning, millions of retiring baby-boomers will want to use schools facilities.
+ Rebuild the connection between school and community: design the next generation of schools as community learning centers.
+ Provide school board members with a greater level of expertise and create a richer design matrix that moves school boards beyond the bottom line as the over-riding reason to choose one design over another.
+ Invest in research that links school design to student achievement including such indirect links as teacher retention, personalization, and conditions for learning.