Webinar:Take A Walk On The Child Side

When:  Oct 24, 2014 from 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM (ET)

Webinar Description:

Early childhood learning environments may be the most important buildings of a child’s entire lifetime.  Come along on this webinar to understand why, and how to create the type of child sensitive environment that becomes a great place to be a kid.

Participants will be able to:

1.    Understand the implications of child care facilities on mental and physical health, school readiness and social development.
2.    Understand the design process as it relates to early childhood, and who the stakeholders are for a responsible and sustainable solution
3.    Understand the elements of design and construction that support developmentally  appropriate indoor and outdoor spaces for early care and education
4.    Understand why a child’s early learning center is the most important environment of his or her lifetime.


Speakers
Mike Wells, AIA, NCARB
Mr. Wells brings the project experience of more than one hundred early education centers for children in 24 states, including more than sixty centers for Bright Horizons. He is a frequent speaker and advocate for child-sensitive design, including workshops presented for the National Coalition for Campus Children’s Centers, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the National Head Start Association, the General Services Administration and components of the American Institute of Architects, and he has served as guest faculty for the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Child Care Design Institute. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the Children’s Environmental Health Institute, a not-for-profit child health advocacy organization, and has previously served the American Institute of Architects as president of the Dallas Chapter AIA and vice president of the Texas Society of Architects.

Bruce R. Wardell, AIA, IFRAA, NCARB - Principal, brwarchitects

Mr. Wardell has designed early learning and child development environments in a wide variety of settings over thirty years of practice. While working with over 70 congregations he has worked to integrate an understanding of the impact the designed environment has on how children learn and develop in their early years. He has also designed numerous educational environments, including Montessori and Waldorf schools, associated with a variety of pedagogical approaches to early
childhood education. Recently he designed, with Bright Horizons, the Sharon L. Hostler Child Development Center for the University of Virginia Physicians Group. His firm has won numerous design awards and he has served as President of the Central Virginia Chapter of the AIA, was a founding Board Member of Central Virginia Habitat for Humanity and currently serves on the Board for the New City Arts Initiative.

This webinar is free for AIA members and $39.99 for non-members.
This webinar is 1.5 LU/HSW.

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Report AIA Continuing Education
Attendees will earn 1.5 LU/HSW. A link to a survey will be provided both at the end of the webinar and in a follow-up email sent one hour after the end of the webinar. All attendees at each site submit one form:  1) page one: webinar survey and 2) page two: CES report form. The survey must be completed within 24 hours of the webinar. AIA members and IDP record holders will have their credit recorded within 48 hours of the webinar. All attendees will be prompted to download a certificate of completion at the end of the survey.

Questions

Questions about the webinar can be directed to knowledgecommunities@aia.org.