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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

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? Designers are connecting with places like the University of Melbourne , Steelcase, and Meteor Education who are doing the action research on current best practices.

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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

Check out Steelcase for an array of ideas and solutions specific to education. During events like concerts, plays, and art shows these devices can easily be temporarily placed in these spaces to meet the power needs of stakeholders visiting the school while showing off some school pride in the process.

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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. She sets multiple alarms during the day to keep everyone on task, which enables her to schedule her own calls and Web meetings.

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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. I know that I need that time to recharge.

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What it's like to teach in an active learning classroom

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

As most readers know, I spent the 2017-2018 academic year on sabbatical at Steelcase doing research on active learning spaces, which resulted in this comprehensive literature review paper co-authored with architect Anat Mor-Avi. .; 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. One such practice I saw at Steelcase was remote work.