Alec Resnick, anticipated principal
of Powderhouse Studios, an XQ Award - winning
new school design in Somerville, notes that the hardest
thing about designing his school is finding «a
way to say «no» to a lot
of what school normally
attempts [to
do] in order to
do just a little bit very differently... It can be very difficult to resist the chorus
of «methods» or «best practices» which offer answers to all the complex questions school confronts» — particularly in the face
of those who might «see
new things as some form
of threat or critique.»