One can’t help but love the sight and sounds of young kids becoming ’school designers’ under the tutelage of passionate architects. The following video was recently released by John Sole at his Guerrilla Educators blog, a new venture he’s put together that is focused entirely on Project-Based Learning (PBL) programs and connecting with school designers/architects to develop truly hands-on learning environments. The following video offers a wonderful summary of a 10-week program involving 4th graders at an inner-city school in Philadelphia:

Over the last few years, we’ve had the pleasure of interviewing John Sole — master service teacher and Project-Based Learning (PBL) expert — to discuss the connection between PBL and school design:

• “Getting Real” (Part 1 of 2 conversations with John and Jeff Lackney)
• “Getting Real: The Philadelphia Story” (Part 2 of 2 conversations with John, architect Dave Schrader, and Jeff Lackney)
• “Sparking School Design with Project-Based Learning”

In addition to being fortunate enough to team up with John in giving leading workshops with a wide array of educators and architects, we consider the work he’s beginning to share through his blog to be a great asset in supporting the passions everyone in the DesignShare community shares. Check it out when you have time! We definitely think you’re going to like what you find.

And if you’re interested in having John connect with your educational and/or architectural team to help develop hands-on learning environments, let us know. He’s beginning to develop a series of DesignShare workshops for 2007 and beyond that look really exciting!