The Academy for Global Citizenship (AGC) is a non-profit public PreK-8 charter school housing a community-based health center, a Head Start center, teaching kitchens, and a three-acre urban farm with fresh food market. AGC reimagines the education model by embracing a pedagogy of self-directed experiential learning, emphasizing relationship-driven environments beyond traditional classrooms. The building embodies AGC’s mission of earth stewardship, physical connection to nature, community engagement, health, and wellness. Upon entering, occupants are immersed in a two-story greenhouse leading to a central gathering space, surrounded by learning villages equipped with individual teaching kitchens and wonder labs for unique breakout activities. The 71,000 sf learning laboratory is the largest Phius-Certified School in the world and is in the final steps of becoming Living Building Challenge-certified. The building is all-electric and designed for climate resiliency with battery back-up and achieves net-positive energy with a geothermal heat-pump system for heating and cooling via radiant slab, energy recovery ventilation, and a super-insulated air-tight building envelope.
