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

Edsurge

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.

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New grant will provide active learning spaces to schools

eSchool News

Steelcase Education grant leverages classroom space to implement new teaching practices. Steelcase Education on Dec. 1 launched the second annual Active Learning Center (ALC) Grant , a program to provide active learning spaces to schools across North America. Grantees included P.K.

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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

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. Powerful learning devices. High-quality digital learning content. but it is a necessity if the goal is to support learning.

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Four rules for hybrid meetings

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

In 2017 when I was on sabbatical at Steelcase , the Steelcase Education team had an all-hands meeting every Monday morning. Zoom and Teams might have their downsides, but the technology for online meetings is light-years beyond what it was just 5 years ago. So you may have to learn some things, and this takes time.

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What factors help active learning classrooms succeed?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

The idea that the space in which you do something, affects the thing you do is the basic premise behind active learning classrooms (ALCs). 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. What is this study about?

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Can a simple classroom redesign inspire student achievement?

eSchool News

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. It’s flexible. It’s colorful. It’s engaging.

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

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

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. and easy access to digital and analog learning tools including whiteboards, projectors, and power supplies.