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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

Pause a second and think about companies such as Uber and Airbnb. 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. Where would many of us be without these or similar apps today?

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

ProfHacker

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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Coronavirus Triple Duty: Working, Parenting And Teaching From Home

MindShift

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

Edsurge

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

Edsurge

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 done design sprints with people high up the org chart.