Planning
We are stewards of your educational vision.

Discover the Possibilities
Envisioning a learning environment that supports your educational program is one thing. Turning that vision into a viable plan is another. And seeing it through to the final product? That’s something else entirely.
Our Planning team’s superpower is the ability to achieve all three. By creating a collaborative between our clients and our architects, we create a roadmap to the future of your school or district, and then we advocate for your needs at every step of the way. Through meaningful, engaging activities with educators, administrators, students, and community stakeholders, we help you develop master plans, long-range plans, and facility design concepts, all centered on educational delivery. From kickoff to closeout, we ensure your priorities stay integrated with the project.
Make Magic Happen
Magic happens where great environments and compelling learning intersect, and with decades of experience in educational design, our team of teaching and learning experts are best-in-class.
We’ll help you reimagine your current facilities to better support your desired modes of instruction, whether they’re teacher-led, geared toward wider collaboration and flexibility, or set on molding the shape of education to come. We can also help you envision facilities that you can modify as student needs and educational paradigms evolve. Together, we’ll affirm your commitment to today, even as we plan for tomorrow.

Planning Services
Visioning
Facility Assessments
Utilization, TEA, + Capacity Analysis
Education + Technical Design Guidelines
Educational Adequacy Reports
Long-Range Planning
Master Planning
Project Planning + Programming
Educational Master Planning
Higher Education Master Planning
Hands-on Educational Research
Instructional Guidebook for the Built Environment
Post Occupancy Evaluation
Meet the Team
Our Planning team represents former educators, administrators, and designers who are passionate and purposeful in their approach to articulating your vision.
CAse Studies
Planning a Roadmap for an Experience-Rich CTE Center
Through extensive research, data gathering, tours, and engagement, Huckabee’s Planning Team worked with Plano ISD’s CTE Leadership Committee to create a roadmap for building a new, innovative, student-centric, and experience-rich CTE center.
The first step was to work together to identify what CTE programs would be housed at the new CTE Center, and which ones would be at the high school and senior high campuses. Huckabee then led activities to define the user experience for the new facility, prompting stakeholders to articulate what perceptions and reactions they wanted the building to inspire in students, staff, and visitors.
CAse Studies
Planning for Parity and Innovation
The planning effort for Aledo ISD engaged the community in a combined visioning effort for both a new middle school and the transformation of an existing one, representing the first time the district split their secondary schools into two campuses.
Community input and targeted discussion around teaching and learning resulted in a conceptual framework for how spaces should function—not just for the middle schools, but for the district’s future campuses as well. In the end, the project proved that renovations can create parity with new construction, and that two schools can contribute to a united community and a shared sense of pride.
CAse Studies
Planning for STEM with a Focus on the Continuum of Learning
With a focus on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), Barton Reimagined replaces an elementary school built in 1955 with one that activates a more user-oriented experience.
Through a robust visioning and stakeholder engagement process, our team reached out for design input from the experts: students, teachers, educators, and community. Following multiple activities and design charettes, we developed objectives that outlined the learning environment’s exploratory nature, its vibrant aesthetic, its inclusive culture, its connection to the outdoors, a focus on STEM, and more.
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