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• Describe how flooring performance characteristics address exposure and risk with improved indoor air quality, reduce absenteeism, lower maintenance outlay, reduce musculoskeletal fatigue, offer operational cost savings, reduce surface contamination, reduce slips, trips and falls, and improve speech intelligibility and sustainable life cycle cost.
Catherine Prossen, Education Market Segment Manager, Interface
Catherine is an Education Market Segment Manager for Interface with a specific interest in the K-12 Education Segment. Catherine has a bachelor’s degree in interior design and a 20-year career in architectural product sales with a personal passion to expand industry knowledge and understanding of her customers needs. She is constantly researching the statistics and trends that impact the learning environment for students, teachers and staff. Catherine is focused on building relationships with architects, designers and end users in order to supply long-term flooring solutions that improve the learning experience while reducing maintenance costs for the school district.
Friday, October 15, 2021 - 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
Blurring the Lines 2.0: Agency, Personalization, and Lifelong Learning in the Future
1 LU
The impetus for change is expanding into many facets of our lives. In 2015, DLR Group authored a provocation that proposed
a radical integration of education into the fabric of our communities and businesses, founded on the principles of personalized and lifelong learning. This provocation was predicated on the access of every learner to a network of peers and experts in support of their goals. Today, the current trajectory of education is being altered by events both within and outside of our control. Will our reactions to these events be passive or pro-active? In this session, we’ll explore what education can be in the distant future, leveraging key concepts of student agency and personalization. Join us on for this deep dive session into the possibilities of what ‘might be’ when we leverage disruptive optimism to reimagine learning for the benefit of all.
Learning Objectives:
• Ideate the impacts of AI/technology on the future.
• Work to define the collective role of community in a new paradigm.
• Consider equity and justice for learners in the future.
• Consider how the workforce will evolve to infuse academic opportunities.
Jason Lembke, AIA, Senior K-12 Education Leader, Principal, DLR Group
Jason is an instigator of innovation for design teams across the firm. As a mentor to young professionals, he provokes designers to help them arrive at original and progressive solutions that elevate education for students, teachers, and communities across the globe. Jason is a K-12 designer with expertise in the planning and design of future facing learning environments. Practicing from the firm’s Charlotte studio, he leads visioning and community engagement processes for school districts, securing funding and creating successful road maps for their future. His portfolio includes new school construction, and facility modernizations and renovations for Pre-K and K-8 schools to major high school campuses.
Tim Shimp, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools, Yorkville District 115
Dr. Shimp is currently the Superintendent in Yorkville CUSD 115 in Yorkville, IL. Over his 27 years as an educational leader, Dr. Shimp has been instrumental in curriculum development and instructional best practice implementation, raising student achievement outcomes, bringing greater equity, access and rigor to student learning experiences, and supporting a district culture of personalized learning.