ISCA Weekly Chair Post
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November 20, 2025




Board Tool:

Assess Your School's Physical Spaces for Optimal Learning


Do you ever wonder whether your school’s physical spaces truly support your vision, program, and community needs? In yesterday’s webinar with James Seaman of Fielding International, we were inspired by how the redesign of just two classroom spaces fully reimagined the student learning experience. When vision, program, and physical environment are thoughtfully aligned, the teaching and learning experience is elevated in powerful ways.


James shared a helpful tool during our webinar that I'm sharing with you today. It is an interactive tool you can use with your board that incorporates a series of questions pertaining to the school's physical spaces and how those spaces serve the following:

Vision & Mission
The Learner Experience

Belonging & Well Being

Future Readiness

Community & Story


Using the interactive platform, Miro, you can use this assessment tool with your board - dragging "post-it notes" to each area and making it an interactive whiteboard. This would be great for a board retreat or an exercise to do at the beginning of some campus master planning. If you want to watch the webinar, Click Here.


Board Tool To Assess Your School's Physical Spaces






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Weekly Chair Post written and compiled by
Bethany Di Napoli, ISCA Executive Director

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