Inside, lots of light spills in from various heights and directions, giving the building, with its classrooms, offices and high-ceilinged exhibition spaces, an attractive buoyancy.
The facility, with its classrooms, turf fields and high white walls, opened in December 2014, a few blocks from where Neymar once lived on B Street, playing soccer on a road that was not yet paved.
In keeping with its classroom origins, the museum teaches students throughout the local school district about art and Latino culture.
Gethard refers to that space, with its eleven classrooms, three writers' rooms, and teachers' lounge, as "a temple of comedy".
Mr. Betheil, the city's technical education chief, said it was too soon to know which of Smith's trade programs would be revived in the charter school, but "we wouldn't be moving this school into Smith, with its 32 classrooms and 32 technical shops, if we didn't plan to use them," he said.
The former Soviet republic of Georgia is trying to improve the quality of the English instruction in its classrooms with a program that has hired 1,000 people from the United States, Canada and other English-speaking countries to teach in its schools.
Pennsylvania's Blue Mountain School District in March equipped all of its classrooms with a five-gallon bucket of rocks.
BRCK moved into education in 2016 with its KIO classroom tablets.
TerraVita takes this a step further with its sustainable classroom series that features a day of informal lectures, food preparation sessions and educational tastings--all with an emphasis on fair trade and sustainable practices.
Idodi Secondary School, plagued with the ghosts of victims of the kerosene lamp fire, is now fitted with solar-powered lighting throughout its classrooms and dormitories.
A local primary school -- its classrooms strewn with dolls, toys, exercise books, scraps of clothing and heaps of children's tables and desks -- suggest a sudden, scrambled exit.
