Peck Expeditionary Learning School
Client: Guilford County Schools
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
- A new 142,000sf K-8 expeditionary learning school.
- Features student-centered learning environments that promote creativity, innovation, collaboration, problem-solving.
- Spaces reinforce student agency through challenging, project- and presentation-based curriculum that distills a connection with oneself, with others, and with nature.
- The design includes a courtyard between the school’s academic wing and the shared spaces, allowing students and their teachers to have quick, direct access to a secure space for outdoor learning.
Interesting Fact: The initial concept is inspired by, and interactive with, the natural elements of the surrounding site, including the tree canopy of the existing forest.
Architecture|Interior Design
The new Peck Expeditionary Learning School strengthens programming at Guilford County Schools by developing spaces that support an expeditionary learning model and provide more equitable access to high-quality facilities. Built on the same site as the previous building, the flagship K-8 facility has five learning communities that cluster similar grade levels, allowing for co-teaching and age-appropriate collaboration.