Tanner Forecasting and Planning Group

Leading & Empowering Educational Organizations to Design Programs & Age-Appropriate Learning Environments for Students!

School Evaluation

Let TFPG evaluate your school facility & its design. Discover its strengths and weaknesses.
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Student Population Forecasting

The TFPG offers Student Population Forecasting & Planning Services for School Districts, Independent Schools, Planning Districts, and State Agencies! District and Regional Area & Demographic Analysis.
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Two Ideal School Designs

School Buildings Influence Student Achievement. We advocate designs that are based on functional, research-based spaces and places that maximize learning, minimize discipline problems, and enhance cultural experiences during the formative years.
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Core Services

The TFPG and its partners have provided Pre-Design and Pre-Planning Round Table Seminars, school facilities evaluation (mechanical and learning aspects), educational planning assistance, including student population forecasting, guidance for planning capital projects, and data-based program evaluation for over 30 years.

New Service: Our Basic 5-Year, Overnight Forecast

The cost of TFPG's Basic 5-YEAR, OVERNIGHT student population forecast begins at $500.00. This is an online service that provides schools with a quick and reliable 5-year system forecast, plus a FREE update within one year. Your school system gets a 6-YEAR STUDENT POPULATION FORECAST for less than $100.00 per year. These forecasts are delivered through E-mail similar to this example, excluding the maps and analysis. This is the best futuristic investment schools can make.

Our Latest Book

Dr. C. Kenneth Tanner and Dr. Jeff Lackney have coauthored Educational Facilities Planning: Leadership, Architecture, and Management. (2006 by Allyn & Bacon). Design issues are discussed extensively in this book.

How to Develop Goals for Educational Specifications and Concept Design: TFPG's 10-Step Process

Facilities Evaluation
The TFPG has developed instrumentation to detect school design flaws that interfere with student learning, even if you employ excellent teachers. Allow the TFPG to evaluate your existing schools and show you how to improve the physical learning environment and raise student achievement scores!
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Program Evaluation
We evaluate programs and students according to stated objectives and benchmarks.

Program Evaluation Points the way to School Design, which is vital to student outcomes. TFPG conducts planning and design workshops to improve harmony between the school, the program, and the community on effects of built learning environments.
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Capital Project Planning
The TFPG can specify for clients many of the possible organizational constraints and phases that facilitate educational facilities planning. The obvious assumption is that a decision has been made to plan by people who control the budget. It is at this point that focused planning can begin.
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