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Specialized Learning &
Education continually evolves and educators adapt. Haddonfield has reached the point where building conditions limit what our top-notch teachers can do. Additionally, schools must meet the growing needs for small-group, personalized learning and must set aside space for important mandated support services.
Specialized Learning:
Specialized Learning:
Often, programs such as testing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech services and small-group instruction take place in hallways and converted offices.
Increased need for space has driven a series of modifications that are stressing the educational programs.
Lessons in music or world languages have been relegated to traveling carts.
The multidisciplinary approach of STEAM does not get adequate square footage.
At Haddon Elementary:
At Haddon Elementary:
Two additional small group instruction spaces would bring the total to seven. Three new classrooms would bring the total to 23. Art and music would have dedicated space with two “flex” rooms that can be used for world language and future growth.
At Tatem Elementary:
At Tatem Elementary:
Three additional small group instruction spaces would bring the total to seven. Three new classrooms would bring the total to 25. Art and music would have dedicated space with four “flex” rooms that can be used for rooms for world language and future growth.
At Central Elementary:
At Central Elementary:
Renovated space would bring the total number of small group instruction spaces to six. Three new classrooms would bring the total to 23. Art and music would have dedicated space with two “flex” rooms that can be used for rooms for world language and future growth.
Media Centers
Media Centers
Media Centers were designed to house books and host solo study. Expansions and reconfigurations would transform them into the kinds of collaborative learning spaces that meet modern instructional needs.
At Haddon Elementary:
At Haddon Elementary:
The current Media Center is not large enough to serve the school’s population. A new, second-floor Media Center could be built over the existing one-story building on the West Redman Avenue side.
At Tatem Elementary:
At Tatem Elementary:
The current Media Center is barely adequate for the size of the school’s population. A “throughway” unnecessarily consumes floor space and provides frequent distractions. Building a new, second floor Media Center would solve both issues. The current center’s space would be ideal as a concentrated location for support services and a counseling office.
At Central Elementary/Haddonfield Middle:
At Central Elementary/Haddonfield Middle:
Part of the shared-building concept involves a Media Center that relies on a sizable circulation desk to divide elementary and middle school use. That desk – and a 3-feet-wide zone for foot traffic around it – consumes almost one quarter of the Media Center’s square footage. Improvements would remove that desk to create more space for student use. Additional renovations would place more separation between elementary and middle school students, although a doorway would make it possible for them to access different areas to meet individual reading needs.
At HMHS:
At HMHS:
The Media Center in the ‘C’ Wing could use a boost in functionality. Opening that space would better serve today’s collaborative education and outfitting it with more flexible furniture would accommodate a variety of instructional settings.
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