The thousands of schools built in the 1950s and '60s have aged to the point that they desperately need modernization or replacement. As a nation, we will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on school construction over the next 10 to 20 years. We can choose whether to design the next generation of schools to teach about a more sustainable way of living, use minimal energy, eliminate the creation of toxins and waste, and be interdependent with natural systems. In fact, the last of the Hannover Principles for sustainable design is to “seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge.” The AIA Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) will bring experts to present current practices and projects demonstrating leading-edge design of sustainable learning environments so that we will leave our children with schools that not only meet today’s expectations but also set examples for tomorrow.