How to improve your learning environment
With help from the Planning Learning Spaces in Practice Framework Get in touchTeacher reviewsIt’s time for a rethink
Traditional learning spaces no longer meet the needs for 21st century learning.
We understand the demands on you and your teaching space. Using our proprietary tools we guide schools – in the UK and overseas – through a reflective process, building the link between curriculum and design via a structured framework.
Focusing on your school’s vision, values and ethos, the process helps translate learning behaviours and activities into learning space design principles, enabling you to create new, or refurbish existing, spaces that actively support your learning goals.

Reimagine your learning space
The project is ideal for schools wanting to refurbish existing learning environments or design new spaces that actively support their learning goals.
We will guide you
The Planning Learning Spaces in Practice Design Framework helps schools to translate their educational vision into learning space design principles. Schools are guided through a reflective process, building the link between curriculum and design through a structured framework. We work with lead staff and other appropriate stakeholders through a series of workshops, which can be delivered online or in person.
Steps in the process
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Your plan, your outcome
Years of teaching experience
See how we helped one school transform their learning space. The teachers explain the benefits of their new environment.
About us
The Planning Learning Spaces in Practice Framework has come from the team behind the best-selling book ‘Planning Learning Spaces’ which brought together educationalists and innovative school architects to pool their collective expertise and inspire the design of more intelligent learning spaces.
The book shows the importance of understanding the intended learning and teaching approach before thinking about the physical design of schools and classrooms, while the framework enables teachers and school staff to apply the same principles to their existing spaces to make tangible improvement to student outcomes.

Terry White
Project Director, Co-Author of PLS and Chairman of a4le

Bhavini Pandya
Project Director and Gratnells Learning Rooms Leader
Planning Learning Spaces
The framework has been developed by the team behind the book.