To make students and faculty more comfortable, school administration is planning to use a grant to change the set-up of some rooms in the school. The goal is to make the rooms more flexible for both students and teachers as well as more technologically advanced.

District 95 Creative Spaces Grants provide money to the person or persons who wish to remodel a District 95 building in order to make it more user-friendly. The grant money is donated by local businesses, families, and PTOs.

Not every room in the building can be fixed up, and as a result, administration had to prioritize and decide which rooms would benefit the most from remodeling.

According to Lauren Katzman, English department chair, the S104 classroom will undergo improvements inorder to make it a more collaborative space, but they are still in the process of making decisions about what exactly to do with it.

Some current classrooms already allow students to be more flexibility, according to Nightlinger.

“We’re asking ourselves what kind of furniture should we use to make a class more interactive? For example, the [current] math desks open up opportunities; they are flexible and move away from the traditional desk,” Nightlinger said. “The typical desks [like some of those in the D and E wings] are too small to hold a textbook and a notepad on them.”

In addition to classroom changes, there is a $30,000-$40,000 budget to remodel the small auditorium.

“The plans for the construction of the small auditorium are for this summer,” Ryan Rubenstein, assistant principal of student activities and facilities, said. “The plan is to make it a more conducive space. Right now, we have a lot of unutilized space.”

According to Nightlinger, overall, the plan is to make the school environment more flexible for learning, teaching, and to brighten up the school.

**Updates on 2/12/14**