Students Change.
Space Adjusts.
Mobile environments that expand learning capacity to reach
underserved and marginalized students without permanent construction.
Magic School Box™
A Two-Environment Learning System.
Each system pairs two complementary learning environments. Students enter a low-stimulation environment designed to reduce cognitive noise and prepare attention. They then transition into an active environment built for hands-on exploration and collaboration. One designed for regulation or reflection, one designed for active engagement or skill-building. The sequence supports readiness before instruction begins.
Reset Lab
38-foot expandable space for
Self-regulation and Focus preparation.
Maker's Studio
53-foot expandable lab for
Experimentation and Collaborative discovery.
Recognition
Magic School Box™ received the 2024 Bronze A’ Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid & Training Content Design category. The award recognizes the project’s spatial design approach to deployable learning environments. International design recognition provides independent validation of the system’s architectural and functional design.The system was developed through collaboration with large urban districts evaluating alternatives to permanent expansion cycles.
Enrollment changes. Programs evolve. Buildings do not. Traditional expansion fixes capacity to a site for decades. Deployable infrastructure allows capacity to move with need between campuses, between programs, and across school years. Schools can introduce new programs, evaluate them in operation, and scale only what proves necessary.
Each unit functions as owned infrastructure. It can be placed, relocated, and reassigned without rebuilding facilities. Expansion becomes an operational decision rather than a construction project.
The Magic School Box system is composed of independent environments that perform different learning functions. Environments can operate individually or as a coordinated sequence.
Primary Configuration
Reset Lab → preparation environment
Maker Studio → applied learning environment
Additional Roles
Creative Studio → reflection and ideation
Empowerment Center → skills and trades development
Innovation Lab → technology and STEM exploration
Campuses can deploy one configuration or combine multiple environments to form a distributed learning network.
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