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Four rules for hybrid meetings

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Last week, I posted this article with thoughts for organizing and running effective meetings. I also said that I could do a whole blog post on "hybrid" meetings where some participants are in person and other remote. In this post I want to share four more rules for handling hybrid meetings. Well, here you are.

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

Edsurge

As educator Pernille Ripp recently reminded us, what is flexible furniture without flexible learning? I would go further to say, what is flexible learning without the long-term flexible mindset needed to meet the changing needs of the kids we serve? It is a journey, a mindset, and part of the change path to better learning.

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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. The essential components of an infrastructure capable of supporting transformational learning experiences include the following: Ubiquitous connectivity.

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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. ” In other words, as parents learn to remote work, their children will also learn — by example.

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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.

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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.