Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1921
Photograph of sketch of John Marshall elementary school, 35 Westville Street, published in Boston Herald, January 12, 1971. The school was designed to introduce open-space learning.
The principles of the plan were: Students working in multi-age groups, teachers as coaches, teams of teachers worked collaboratively with one another, spaces reconfigured to for large and small group projects and individual work, architects commissioned to design schools without walls, teachers given discretion to create new academic courses, and students direct their own learning. It is my impression that educators later decided the plan was unsuccessful for the elementary grades, but there seems to be a resurgence of interest with the advent of new technologies
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