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High school students build pieces of structures to imagine what a real-world “peace house” would look like, part of a Project World Peace workshop put together by the Abdullahs in 2010, which incorporated award-winning curriculum produced by the American Architectural Foundation. Through an exhibition of skills learned at the workshop, participants begin to experience each other’s thoughts and views on world peace while learning about architecture through a didactic experience.


TCAAD’s leadership has also started a campaign to raise funds needed to fully implement the school’s design cur- riculum. “We plan to use 2016 and 2017 to fund a smooth opening of the school, with hopes to open the K-6 portion in time for the 2018-2019 school year,” says Abdullah. As the school receives more funding, there are plans to add a grade each year up until the 12th grade, he adds.


Also, in July this year, the concept for the high school portion of the school was named as a finalist in a $50 million contest called XQ: The Super School Project. Spon- sored by the nonprofit XQ Institute, the competition aims to reimagine high schools across the U.S. and is funded by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple’s Founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. TCAAD was selected as one of the top 50 final- ists (out of 1,700 contenders) due to the charter school’s innovative curriculum centered on architecture and design for learners in kindergarten through 12th grade—the first of its kind in the nation.


HELPING STUDENTS DESIGN THEIR FUTURES


TCAAD’s education program aims to involve architecture in each content area, which includes math, reading, science and social studies. Students’ learning outcomes will


reflect common core and Georgia Performance Standards set forth by the Georgia Dept. of Education, as well as a fundamental understanding of architecture.


“It’s not really teaching them to be architects,” Abdullah says about the school and its curriculum. “It’s about teaching them to design their own futures.”


In addition to architecture, the design component of the educational curriculum will include creative media, film and music. The school’s three learning studios—archi- tecture, engineering, and creative media and design—are intended to create a dynamic discovery environment for thinking, designing and developing objects and projects. For example, in the architecture studio, kindergarteners could start to develop an architecture vocabulary using an alphabet word wall. In the creative media and design studio, learners can create visual reproductions of con- cepts to reinforce verbal and written instruction, or write and record narratives about life as an architect or engi- neer. Students in the makerspace engineering studio could create 3D replicas of well-known structures designed by noteworthy architects.


As a charter school, TCAAD will have the flexibility to create learning standards that build skills in creativity,


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