In this episode, Lauren Magee, an architect, teacher and mom, shares her process of engaging her 3-year-old, 7-year-old, and 9-year-old children in the design of a functional, educational space that works for their family! Lauren encourages her children to take an active role in the design and decision-making process of transforming a space in […]
Lauren Magee — architect, educator, and mother of a 3, 7 and 9-year-old — has recently found herself in a situation familiar to parents around the world, with her children distance-learning indefinitely due to the outbreak of COVID-19. To help other parents navigate this new set of challenges, Lauren and her family have decided to […]
Lauren Magee — mother of a 3-year-old, 7-year-old and 9-year-old, architect, and educator — has recently found herself in a situation familiar to parents around the world, with her children distance-learning indefinitely due to the outbreak of COVID-19. To help other parents navigate this new set of challenges, Lauren and her family have decided to […]
I’m a mom. I’m an architect. I’m a teacher. Those roles have each taken precedence in my life in differing ways in the past. Sometimes the roles converge, sometimes they clash, and it’s always a balancing act. Now, in the time of the Coronavirus, those roles need to mesh and balance with an immediacy that […]
When most people talk about designing an early childhood education program, they mean the curriculum, the funding, or the program. Not Dr. Sandra Duncan. When the Design Consultant for Early Childhood Classrooms and Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University talks about designing, she means it literally. To learn more, check out this video (filmed […]
Consider how this makes you feel. Are you calm or are your senses overwhelmed with all the colors? Can you find a comfortable spot to relax? Most likely, if you don’t feel comfortable, little ones will also feel uncomfortable or overwhelmed in this type of environment. This is a familiar aesthetic for teachers, but not necessarily the right one.
