Provide areas for students to focus, reflect, engage in quiet individual reading and do research. Spaces for students to reflect and feel they are away from the larger group yet must permit natural surveillance by adults while providing privacy for the learner.

The Ed Specs serve to illustrate concepts that will inform the master plans based on OUSD's aspirations to the audience of future architects who will implement them as well as for OUSD stakeholders to understand the reasoning behind modernizations.

Quiet Reading

Are there quiet spaces the learner can access to engage in reading? 

Playful

Are there accent walls, ceilings, or flooring color changes to make the space feel like it was made for the child?

Zoning and Acoustics

Is there furniture, fixtures and equipment and enhanced acoustics to define zones to support multiple learning activities simultaneously?