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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. Powerful learning devices. High-quality digital learning content.

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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

Remote learning is a brave new world for both of us — one we’ve entered with little warning. Having things like a schedule is very important,” says Hertirch, an account manager for office furnishings company Steelcase. And like me, parents everywhere are grappling with remote school while trying to work remotely. .

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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. But I’m not going to report back on those things for now.