We believe in the importance of ensuring you, the educator, have access to industry aligned digital content that is current, relevant, and timely. Our resources will serve many of your instructional needs, be it concerning digital marketing, fashion, design, branding, visual merchandising, e-commerce, interior/store design, or trends, and also as a service to you through our opportunities to create online portfolios, industry connections, live and virtual classroom events, and onsite educator professional development.
Benefits
Since WindowsWear is industry driven, it was created with that audience in mind and so will read as such. As an educator, it is vital the pre-professional (your students) are aware of real world platforms, how to utilize it to ensure industry understanding is aligned with current and relevant practices, and to establish relationships with industry partners early in their careers.
WindowsWear can be invaluable to your students over their entire career as they:
✔ Learn about the ever-evolving industry practices from those presently working in the industry.
✔ Create their own collection of best work through brand projects and portfolio creation (which could catch the attention of industry partners).
✔ Secure internships and focus on industry transitions, thus building resumes and relationships with both emerging and established design houses.
✔ Meet their job responsibilities as a newly hired professional which requires trend identification, marketing/sales analysis and even in identifying new talent for hire through the same portfolio, internship and project partnerships experienced when they were pre-professionals.
Access
All students and faculty have all the benefits of membership, including full access to WindowsWear content & community including our databases, archives, news, trends, events, and reports.
We authenticate all users through individual accounts. Users can log-in with their verified school email addresses as well as through IP proxy (if offered). All users can access WindowsWear from the school’s library portal and / or directly from our site. We also offer a custom URL for any new users to sign-up with their school credentials.
Sign-Up for a Free Trial!
WindowsWear offers all academic programs a risk-free 6-month trial! Just sign-up for a free account and email us at education@windowswear.com with your name, school, telephone number and school email address (.edu or similar) and we will upgrade you!
Pricing
After the free trial, the discounted annual membership rate for colleges/universities is US $3,499, and the discounted annual membership for middle/high schools is US $225. We accept all forms of payment (credit card, ACH, check).
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Download Lesson Plans Created by Educators from our Community
Building Brand Identity
Gayla Randel, FCS Education Consultant
Customer Service: Returns and Exchanges
Pamela Babb, Teacher at Burlington High School (Burlington, Kansas)
Design in Merchandising
Gayla Randel, FCS Education Consultant
Four Basic Principles of Design
Joshua Williams, Professor at Parsons School of Design (New York, NY)
Politics & Propaganda
Joshua Williams, Professor at Parsons School of Design (New York, New York)
Value vs. Worth
Joshua Williams, Professor at Parsons School of Design (New York, New York)
Please email us at education@windowswear.com with your lesson plan so we can also include it on this page. Please note these lesson plans are not aligned to a format nor vetted to ensure it includes everything that our educational community may be looking for.
Family and Consumer Sciences “FCS” Education National Standards 3.0 Alignment to WindowsWear
Many of the Family and Consumer Sciences National Standards can be addressed through using the WindowsWear content. The following indicates what is most directly aligned to using WindowsWear as an educational resource.
1.0 Career, Community and Family Connections
| ID | National Standard | WindowsWear Connection |
| 1.2.1 | Analyze potential career choices to determine the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and opportunities associated with each career. | Community: Industry investigation assignments |
| 1.2.3 | Apply communication skills in school, community, and workplace settings and with diverse populations. | Channels: Research papers written after investigating information available through this content portal. Community: Interviews with industry professionals |
| 1.2.8 | Demonstrate employability skills, work ethics and professionalism. | Community: Interactions with industry professionals Education: Participate in student contests and virtual and in-person events sponsored by WindowsWear |
2.0 Consumer and Family Resources
| 2.1.1 | Apply time management, organizational and process skills to prioritize tasks and achieve goals. | Database: Research projects Community: Interactions with industry professionals which will require to work within their schedules. |
| 2.2.3 | Demonstrate behaviors that conserve, reuse, and recycle resources to maintain the environment. | Channels: Investigate “sustainability” channels for current trends and create local efforts to support them. |
| 2.4.2 | Analyze how media and technological advances influence family and consumer decisions. | Content: Investigate methods used by stores to promote sales. |
3.0 Consumer Services
| 3.1.1 | Analyze opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors. | Community: Research of industry professionals to explore employment opportunities. Education: Take part in student virtual and in person events sponsored by WindowsWear. |
| 3.4.4 | Examine waste management issues and local, national, international, and global issues. | Channels: Investigate “sustainability” channels for current trends and create local efforts to support them. |
| 3.4.5 | Examine roles of government, culture, industry, and family in energy consumption. | Channels: Investigate “sustainability” channels for current trends and create local efforts to support them. |
| 3.5.1 | Conduct market research to determine consumer trends and product development needs for diverse populations. | Database: Review historical trends to learn how to identify influencers to trend development. Channels: Investigate the “WindowsWear” filter for newest findings and “Trends” for support information. |
| 3.5.2 | Design or analyze a consumer product. | Database: Utilize archive data to locate a product to analyze. Channels: See Database. |
| 3.5.6 | Evaluate the labeling, packaging, and support materials of consumer goods. | Database: Utilize the e-commerce files to review packaging of selected fashion items. |
11.0 Housing and Interior Design
| 11.1.5 | Create an employment portfolio to communicate housing and interior design careers knowledge and skills | Education: Create an online portfolio to capture examples of interior design used in story layout and/or window design. |
| 11.1.7 | Analyze the attitudes, traits and values of professional responsibility, accountability and effectiveness required for careers in housing and interior design. | Community: Interviews with industry professionals |
| 11.2.1 | Evaluate the use of elements and principles of design in housing and commercial and residential interiors. | Database: Explore, analyze, compare, and contrast window design and store/ pop up layout. |
| 11.2.2 | Analyze the psychological impact that the principles and elements of design have on the individual. | |
| 11.2.3 | Analyze the effects that the principles and elements of design have on aesthetics and function. | |
| 11.2.4 | Apply principles of human behavior, ergonomics, and anthropometrics to the design of housing, interiors, and furnishings. | Education: Take part in student contests related to window or product displays to demonstrate abilities to apply the concepts. |
| 11.3.2 | Evaluate manufacturers, products and materials considering building codes and regulations, environmental protection, care and maintenance, and safety issues. | Database: Explore, analyze, compare, and contrast window design and store/ pop up layout o the next level by aligning examples to building codes and safety regulations for retail spaces. |
| 11.3.6 | Demonstrate design processes such as determining the scope of a project, programming, research, concept development, schematic design, design drawing and design development and presentation. | Education: Take part in student contests related to window or product displays to demonstrate abilities to apply the concepts. |
| 11.4.2 | Evaluate floor plans for efficiency and safety in areas including but not limited to zones, traffic patterns; storage, and electrical, plumbing, ventilation, and thermal systems. | Database: Analyze store/pop floor plan design. |
| 11.4.4 | Arrange furniture placement with reference to principles of design, traffic flow, activity, and existing architectural features. | Education: Take part in student contests related to window display or store layout to demonstrate abilities to apply the concepts. |
| 11.5.1 | Describe features of furnishings that are characteristic of various historical periods | Database: Review historical trends through window display analysis. |
| 11.5.4 | Compare and contrast historical architectural details to current housing and interior design trends. | Database: Analyze historical window displays to current displays to compare and contrast interior design features and details as an introduction to assignments with more flexible parameters. |
16.0 Textiles, Fashion & Apparel
| 16.1.2 | Analyze opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors. | Community: Research industry professionals to explore employment opportunities in textiles, fashion, and apparel. Education: Take part in student virtual and in-person events sponsored by WindowsWear. |
| 16.1.5 | Create an employment portfolio to communicate textiles, fashion, and apparel knowledge and skills. | Education: Create an online portfolio to capture examples of textiles and apparel experiences and samples of work. |
| 16.3.1 | Explain the ways in which fiber, fabrics, texture, pattern, and finish can affect visual appearances. | Database: Analyze fashion related window displays to identify apparel features and details which impact visual appearances. |
| 16.3.2 | Apply basic and complex color schemes and color theory to develop and enhance visual effects. | Database: Analyze fashion related window displays to identify apparel features and details which involve use of color. |
| 16.3.4 | Demonstrate design concepts using fiber, fabric, or digital means, employing draping and/or flat pattern making techniques. | Education: Take part in student contests related to demonstrating abilities to address the concepts. |
| 16.3.8 | Evaluate the impact of history of design and designers, arts and culture, trend setters, and global influences on textiles, fashion, and apparel. | Database: Analyze fashion related window displays from around the global to identify apparel features and details which indicate impact of a variety of influences. |
| 16.5.1 | Apply marketing strategies for textiles, fashion, and apparel in the global marketplace. | Database: Analyze store/pop floor plan design and e-commerce to learn marketing strategies used which can then be used to market new products. |
| 16.5.3 | Analyze ethical considerations for merchandizing textiles, fashion, and apparel. | Database: Utilize archive data to build foundational understanding through project analysis. Channels: Utilize archive information (print and video) to build foundational understanding of concepts. |
| 16.5.4 | Analyze external factors that influence merchandizing. | |
| 16.5.5 | Critique a variety of methods for promoting textiles, fashion, and apparel to diverse populations. | |
| 16.5.6 | Apply research methods, including forecasting techniques, for marketing textiles, fashion, and apparel. | |
| 16.7.6 | Demonstrate knowledge of the impact of external factors upon the textiles, apparel, and fashion industries. | Database: Utilize archive data to build foundational understanding through textile, apparel and/or fashion analysis OR use them as examples of external impacts. Channels: Utilize archive information (print and video) to build foundational understanding of concepts OR use them as examples to illustrate the impacts of external factors. |