Rooted in community: a school is more than the bricks and windows that line its walls. It's more than the faculty and administrators who create stimulating curriculum. It's even more than the students who fill the halls with laughter and the classrooms with curiosity.(Modernization Awards)

Buildings,  October, 2006  by Goedken, Anne K.

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As demonstrated by Hunter Elementary in Hunter, NY, the community is an integral part of the school. When Hunter-Tannersville Central School District set out to modernize the pre-kindergarten through sixth grade school, the integration of community was central to the plans of the school district, construction team, and design professionals. Although this group encountered numerous obstacles in the course of the project, the communities of Hunter and Tannersville remained the focus of the team's vision and, at times, became their solution.

Constructed in the 1930s, rural Hunter ...

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