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6 new grants to consider in the new year

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JANUARY 6, 2019

Steelcase Education is seeking innovative middle and high school educators and educational institutions looking to implement and expand active learning initiatives to apply for its fifth annual Active Learning Center Grant. Check out the following six grants, which cover literacy, learning spaces, drug awareness, and more.

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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

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JUNE 12, 2018

Last fall I started my first day on the job as an embedded faculty member with a corporation—as a scholar-in-residence at Steelcase Education. Actually intern is probably the best lens through which to look at what I’ve been doing at Steelcase for the last eight months. One such practice I saw at Steelcase was remote work.

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Can a simple classroom redesign inspire student achievement?

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Rolling chairs are an essential part of Steelcase Active Learning centers. Ours was one of only a few dozen schools awarded similar classroom overhauls through the Steelcase Education Active Learning Center Grant Program. Here, students gather around teacher, Julie Marshall for a lesson.

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7 discoveries from an active learning classroom

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Four years ago, I became an inaugural recipient of a Steelcase Education Active Learning Center Grant. Through active learning, the teacher gradually releases control to the students, encouraging them to become independent learners.

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New grant will provide active learning spaces to schools

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Steelcase Education grant leverages classroom space to implement new teaching practices. Steelcase Education on Dec. Up to 15 grant recipients will have the opportunity to install one of four learning environments featuring Steelcase Education’s state-of-the-art furniture and technology.

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How Furniture and Flexible Seating Is Turning Classroom Design Into a Fad

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Designers are connecting with places like the University of Melbourne , Steelcase, and Meteor Education who are doing the action research on current best practices. Designers are researchers and learners. There is emerging research from Europe and Australia around space design.

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Get Involved In Classroom Design: A Grant to Upgrade Your Classroom

ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Here’s an opportunity: if you teach grades 8–12 or at an institution of higher education, Steelcase – a company that sells products and services for corporate offices, classrooms, and healthcare settings – is offering some substantial grants for you to redesign your classroom into an “active learning center.”

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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

Check out Steelcase for an array of ideas and solutions specific to education. Purchase furniture and accessories that have built-in electrical outlets. This strategy seems like a no-brainer when schools are looking to refurbish libraries and comfortable furniture for common areas.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Steelcase Education. Visual environment, attention allocation, and learning in young children: When too much of a good thing may be bad. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1362–1370. Scott-Webber, L., Strickland, A., & & Kapitula, L. How classroom design affects student engagement.

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Four rules for hybrid meetings

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 16, 2023

In 2017 when I was on sabbatical at Steelcase , the Steelcase Education team had an all-hands meeting every Monday morning. Plus, all of my classes this term are on our second campus, away from my office and the Math Department (where most of my meetings are held). So I have a particular agenda with this topic.

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To Get More Students to Office Hours, Colleges Rethink the Faculty Office

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Selingo, a former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, who wrote a white paper on innovative faculty office designs for the furniture company Steelcase. The concept is called “hoteling,” explains Jeffrey J. Everybody gets a space, but it’s not ‘your space,’” he explains.

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Coronavirus Triple Duty: Working, Parenting And Teaching From Home

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MARCH 18, 2020

Having things like a schedule is very important,” says Hertirch, an account manager for office furnishings company Steelcase. . “It’s interesting, a lot of what we do for work is also mirrored in the experience for my child.

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In the marketplace: Funding for active learning, a helping hand for innovative programs, and an interactive book program

eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Steelcase Education launched the third annual Active Learning Center Grant cycle, a program that provides modern and flexible classroom redesigns to schools across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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Renewing innovation

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JUNE 28, 2023

I saw what real innovation looks like up-close during my sabbatical at Steelcase. What innovation really means I've written about innovation before , and I've been steeped in it throughout most of my career.

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Susan Cain’s Quiet Revolution

ProfHacker

JUNE 30, 2015

Steelcase, a manufacturer of office furniture, has recently begun offering a line of quiet work cubicles called Susan Cain Quiet Spaces. Her company has been hired by high-profile corporate clients to provide managerial training to help recognize and integrate the strengths of introverts.

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What factors help active learning classrooms succeed?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 11, 2023

I’ve been studying ALCs for a while now — it was the subject of my sabbatical at Steelcase in 2017-2018 and this paper on the subject that resulted. I know Sharon because she was recently Scholar-in-Residence at Steelcase, the position that was created for, and which I held during my sabbatical.

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What it's like to teach in an active learning classroom

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 23, 2022

As most readers know, I spent the 2017-2018 academic year on sabbatical at Steelcase doing research on active learning spaces, which resulted in this comprehensive literature review paper co-authored with architect Anat Mor-Avi. .; and easy access to digital and analog learning tools including whiteboards, projectors, and power supplies.

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