Radically Student Centered™

Learning Space Integration for Lasting Impact

This book will have you questioning everything you think you know about designing schools.

Every school begins with a vision. All too often, that dream fades the moment construction starts.

In Radically Student Centered™, Kevin Stoller uncovers why so many well-meaning school projects fall short and offers a different path. Based on decades of experience transforming learning environments, Stoller presents a systems-based framework that brings together vision, budget, design, and implementation around one central focus—students.

Instead of treating architecture, furniture, pedagogy, and procurement as isolated decisions, this book demonstrates how integrating them from the beginning leads to spaces that actually support teaching and learning. It challenges the disjointed spec-and-bid model and calls on leaders to choose the right

partner before selecting products.

Schools are constructed once every thirty to fifty years. As such, these projects are generational opportunities. When communities come together early and execute with intention, they create environments that do more than accommodate learning—they elevate it.

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ISBN: 979-8-90026-075-4
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Categories:Amplify Publishing, Education, Thought Leadership, Professional and Technical

“This book is a road map for using student needs to design learning environments: because a great learning space doesn’t just accommodate students, it empowers them.”

—MARK OSBORNE, PhD, director of Leading Learning

“As school systems across the country rethink staffing models, reexamining how to better leverage the learning space is more important than ever. Radically Student Centered™ does just that with a hard-to-achieve balance of theory and action-oriented practicality.”

—BRENT W. MADDIN, EdD, executive director, Next Education Workforce Initiative, Arizona State University

“Where to start? This text not only calls out what I have been espousing for years but gives a new guiding path for moving forward into the future. Educating is about facilitating the learning process—learning how to learn. The refocus of this text is correct. It’s about the student.”

—DR. LENNIE SCOTT-WEBBER, owner and principal, INSYNC Education Research + Design

“As educators and designers rethink how learning happens around the world, Radically Student Centered™ captures that shift and translates it into action. It offers a clear framework for designing environments that advance deeper learning, collaboration, and student well-being—and points the way forward for education.”

—JOHN K. RAMSEY, CAE, ALEP, chief executive officer, Association for Learning Environments; president & CEO, EDmarket

Radically Student Centered™ clarifies one of education’s most complex challenges— the intersection of space design, pedagogy, implementation, and applied built environment research. Kevin turns evidence into action, providing institutions of learning and their partners authoritative direction and amplifying our society as a result.”

—MARK GOODMAN, publisher, Learning By Design

Kevin Stoller

Serial Entrepreneur, Cofounder, and CEO

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KEVIN STOLLER is the founder and CEO of Kay-Twelve, a national Learning Space Integrator dedicated to transforming school environments through a radically student-centered approach. Over the past two decades, he has partnered with school districts, architects, and education leaders across the country to align vision, design, and implementation around what matters most—students.

He is also the host of The Better Learning Podcast, where he interviews innovative leaders in education, design, and business to explore how systems, spaces, and culture shape learning outcomes.

Through his writing, speaking, and advisory work, Kevin helps communities maximize once-in-a-generation opportunities to build or modernize schools. His mission is clear: to ensure that every learning environment is intentionally designed to elevate students, support educators, and strengthen the future of education.