Frank M. Locker, PhD, AIA, REFP, Vice President of DeJONG, leads visioning, educational specifications, master planning, equity, and school restructuring projects. An architect, former educator, and trained facilitator, Dr. Locker has more than thirty years of education and school facilities planning experience.

Honored as the 'Planner of the Year' by the Council of Educational Facilities Planners in 1999, Dr. Locker is a frequent speaker at national and regional educational facilities conferences. Topics have included Team Teaching/Integrated Learning, Flexible Facilities, Small Schools, Relationship-Based Schools, and Designs to Support Constructivist Learning. His school planning articles have appeared in CEFPI Educational Planner and Designshare. He has been a frequent juror on design and honor awards competitions, including the CEFPI MacConnell Award jury, several Planner of the Year juries, and the Designshare/School Construction News Design Awards jury.

Recent educational planning projects have included the High Performing High Schools Initiative, Orange County Public Schools, FL; Desegregation Analysis of School Facilities, OCPS, FL; Early Childhood Center and Primary School Prototypes for Kuwait; Middle School Visioning for the Catholic Schools of Kalamazoo, MI; High School Visioning for Kalispell, MT; Middle School Educational Specifications for Grand Rapids, MI; High School Master Planning for Prince George's County, MD; and Elementary Master Planning in Concord, NH.

Projects

• Long-Range Facility Master Plan--Orange County Public Schools [ Orlando], FL
• Long-Range Facility Master Plan New Urban High School Prototype -Orange County Public Schools [Orlando], FL
• Long-Range Facility Master Plan Unitary Status Studies Analysis- Orange County Public Schools [ Orlando], FL
• High School Capacity Alternatives Study – Prince George’s County Public Schools, MD
• Ministry of Defense Campus- Country of Kuwait
• Design Charettes for Two Elementary School s- School City of Hammond, IN
• Community Engagement- Concord School District , NH
• New Middle School Visioning - Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo, MI

flocker@dejonginc.com