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SCHOOL TOURScontinued... Irvine Tour
1) Portola High School
Portola High the new comprehensive high school for the highly respected Irvine Unified School District was guided by an intensive strategic plan and educational specification process. The result is an innovative 21st Century learning community. The tour will include insights from campus leadership, district planning staff and students discussing their multi-year, interdisciplinary passion projects.
The visit includes the Student Union, Innovation Lab, Learning Commons, 700-seat theater, dedicated teacher collaboration rooms and multi-use Student Collaboration spaces.
Portola High School boasts a WiFi system capable of up to five devices per person across the entire campus indoors and out. Video monitors, projectors and a robust fiber
optic system provide many ways to access and present information. Furniture is flexible and nestable throughout the campus, allowing each space to convert readily from one learner-centered arrangement to another.
The class schedule gives students flexibility and options in selecting their courses.
The 244,000 SF campus has fifteen one and two-story concrete block buildings that house 2,400 students on 43 acres that was formerly part of the-the El Toro Marine Corps Air station.
Sustainable features include low water, low maintenance landscape, a passive green roof system irrigated with captured HVAC condensate water, solar panels and electrochromic glass that darkens in response to the sun intensity and position to optimize daylighting.