March 24, 2025
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Calling All K-12 Education Enthusiasts,
I am looking forward to seeing you at our next Enthusiasts meeting on Monday, March 24 at 2ET. If you have not yet registered to receive the Zoom link, please do so
here. Our topic is Architecture Week plans. This is the second year that Architecture Week, with its focus on K-12 outreach, exists at AIA. It is a week designed to inspire K-12 architecture and design outreach as well as to celebrate the K-12 outreach that occurs throughout the year. We have tried to provide a variety of calls to action on the
ArchWeek webpage so everyone can find something that works for them. Our goal is to reach 15,000 students this year. With 100,000 AIA members, imagine if each member inspired just one student!
If you are willing to share your ArchWeek25 ideas with the group at our March meeting, it would be great to hear the various ways individuals, firms, and chapters plan to participate so we can generate ideas for this year and years to come.
AIA’s K-12 webpage is updated on a weekly basis as resources are added and 2025 dates are released. A few recent additions:
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Hot off the presses and available today–an esteemed member of AIA’s K-12 IDEA Group, Anne Taylor, Ph.D just released the second edition of her “
Architecture and Children” teacher guidebook. The first edition was released in 1991!
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The Architectural Foundation of San Francisco’s
HS Design Competition is open and accepting applications. High schoolers worldwide can enter.
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The House That She Built launched their
6-unit curriculum focused on architecture and engineering for students in grades K-3. They would love feedback from anyone willing to try it out!
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AIA’s
Build the Block has been recently updated and opened to all. It is a virtually led design challenge that anyone can use with students.
Lastly, I recently received a request from a teacher at a school for vision-impaired students. She has an aspiring architect in her class who would love to do a Zoom interview with a successful vision-impaired architect. If you know of someone who fits this criteria, could you please let me know?
Please share this email with anyone who would like to join the K-12 discussion. Reach out at any time!
See you on March 24,
Devon
Devon Davis (she/her)
Sr. Manager, K-12 Initiatives & Engagement
Relator | Consistency | Harmony | Empathy | Achiever
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By Stacey Ruhle Kliesch, AIA, AIA NJ Advocacy Consultant | Posted in K12 Architecture Education | Tagged: #K12 | Comments (0)
