ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Have you ever been frustrated by the largely immobile set-up of a typical classroom? 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.” Have you ever participated in classroom redesign?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 11, 2023

The idea that the space in which you do something, affects the thing you do is the basic premise behind active learning classrooms (ALCs). Zero to Go: The Factors that Lead to Growing Active Learning Classrooms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

There is a fair amount of research into the impact of classroom design on student learning. Spaces flooded with natural light that allow for a variety of learning methods and activities, and spaces that let students feel a sense of ownership over the classroom, demonstrably affect how well students learn. Four years ago, I became an inaugural recipient of a Steelcase Education Active Learning Center Grant.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Imagine a 5 th grade classroom in the middle of a lesson. This has been the traditional classroom for decades. Any generation could walk into a room and immediately identify it as a classroom. Rolling chairs are an essential part of Steelcase Active Learning centers. This is my active learning center, no longer the traditional classroom we remember. Next page: How this classroom redesign success goes beyond test scores).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2018

Education eats good ideas. Modern classroom design is sitting on this precipice. What then happens is instead of designing classrooms that positively impact students, we are decorating classrooms, celebrating the new, and then moving on to the next shiny thing. Pinterest-pretty classrooms bring instant gratification, but little else. Designers aren’t led by momentum, inertia, tradition or the latest education fads.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 23, 2022

Over the last several years, I have done a lot of work with active learning classrooms (ALCs). These are classroom spaces that are intentionally designed to optimize active learning and amplify its positive effects.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Steelcase Education grant leverages classroom space to implement new teaching practices. Steelcase Education on Dec. The ALC grant program leverages classroom space to implement new teaching practices, centering on student focus and collaboration. 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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The USDOE’s Office of Educational Technology places emphasis on students and educators having access to a robust and comprehensive infrastructure when and where they need it for learning. Access to mobile devices that connect learners and educators to the vast resources of the Internet and facilitate communication and collaboration. Check out Steelcase for an array of ideas and solutions specific to education. Times are a changing in case you haven’t noticed.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

“ We need to move away from classroom design that is “Pinterest pretty” and use research/design thinking to guide the wor k.” – Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray When Tom Murray and I set out to write Learning Transformed our goal was to connect as much research as possible to our ideas and statements as well as the amazing work taking place in schools, known in the book as Innovative Practices in Action (IPA’s). Designing classrooms to maximize student achievement. Steelcase Education.

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Edsurge

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. I’ve kept my eyes open, taken a notebook full of notes, and spent time every day processing what I was seeing and speculating about how the best things I saw might function in higher education.

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