Learn how the concept of the Extended Learning Area (ELA), currently underway in Dayton Public Schools, Ohio, is being used in all academic spaces. This presentation will highlight the design of ELAs as dynamic educational spaces and identify how the users will transform these spaces to meet their specific needs and teaching styles. Strategically, the introduction of ELAs combined with a flexible arrangement of classroom spaces works to encourage both cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary discourse and promotes a district-wide initiative to mainstream its significant special needs population.