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6 new grants to consider in the new year

eSchool News

School leaders consistently identify high costs and shrinking budgets as a top barrier to implementing new technology tools and programs. Check out the following six grants, which cover literacy, learning spaces, drug awareness, and more. Deadline : Feb. 1, 2019.

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New grant will provide active learning spaces to schools

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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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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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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

The chairs detach from the desks and the tables tilt up and down to accommodate the use of new tools, like interactive white boards and handheld technology. Rolling chairs are an essential part of Steelcase Active Learning centers. This is my active learning center, no longer the traditional classroom we remember.