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

Edsurge

Designers are connecting with places like the University of Melbourne , Steelcase, and Meteor Education who are doing the action research on current best practices. They look for great examples from places like New Zealand where almost all of the public schools are on a journey toward modern learning spaces.

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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. And they should not be referred to as a separate group, for example What do the people on Zoom think? So I have a particular agenda with this topic. But I think I'm not the only one. you may ask.

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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

Examples include altering the classroom layout, designing classroom displays differently, and choosing new wall colors (Barrett et al., Steelcase Education. However, research indicates that schools don’t need to spend vast amounts of money to make instructional improvements. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1362–1370. Scott-Webber, L.,

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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. ” In other words, as parents learn to remote work, their children will also learn — by example. Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit [link].

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Renewing innovation

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

For example, take just a couple of items from Popular Science's top 100 innovations of 2022 : Phone (1) from Nothing. Ask any professor who's tried, for example, to use alternative grading or flipped instruction where those ideas were uncommon. I saw what real innovation looks like up-close during my sabbatical at Steelcase.

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Susan Cain’s Quiet Revolution

ProfHacker

As an introvert, for example, after attending several sessions at an academic conference and interacting with lots of people, I’m likely to head off to my hotel room for some quiet time before meeting up with a couple of friends for dinner. .”

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What factors help active learning classrooms succeed?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

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.