AIA Live Course: Inclusive Restrooms & Locker Rooms in K–12 Schools

When:  Aug 29, 2024 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM (ET)

Inclusive Restrooms & Locker Rooms in K–12 Schools
1 LU|HSW

Description

Changing access and supervision requirements are beginning to challenge the traditional norm of designing segregated, gender-specific restrooms and locker rooms for K–12 schools. Inclusive facilities offer a more humane and dignified approach to the traditional toileting and locker room experience.

Learn the benefits and practicalities of designing inclusive restrooms and locker rooms—highlighting their role in promoting equity, accessibility, efficiency, and student health. 

Understand how inclusive facilities can reduce bullying, enhance privacy, and improve overall student safety and well-being. Gain practical tools to navigate conversations with community stakeholders, code officials, administrators, staff, families, and students—ensuring a smooth transition to more inclusive environments in K–12 schools.

Presented in partnership with the Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE).

Learning Objectives

  • Define key components of inclusive restrooms and locker rooms in K–12 schools.
  • Identify school facility design recommendations that support student health and well-being and explain how they can contribute to a more efficient toileting experience and a reduce anxiety, avoidance, bullying, and other unwanted or unsafe behaviors.
  • Describe design recommendations for enhancing physical and psychological privacy and how they accommodate various cultural, religious, and personal privacy requirements.
  • Identify the safety and security benefits of co-locating restrooms and locker rooms with other functions.
  • Describe key maintenance and plumbing considerations of inclusive facilities and how they are different from traditional, gender-specific facilities.

Speakers

Benjamin Fields , AIA, ALEP, LEED AP BD+C
Cheryl Jacobs , AIA, LEEP AP BD+C

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