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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. But there are a couple of problems with these reports and all the others I was able to find. The HBR report above is from 2018 and the Forbes report is from 2009, which is eons ago.

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New grant will provide active learning spaces to schools

eSchool News

Steelcase Education grant leverages classroom space to implement new teaching practices. Steelcase Education on Dec. Up to 15 grant recipients will have the opportunity to install one of four learning environments featuring Steelcase Education’s state-of-the-art furniture and technology.

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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The report indicates clear evidence that “well-designed primary schools boost children’s academic performance in reading, writing, and math” (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett, 2015, p. Steelcase Education. Visual environment, attention allocation, and learning in young children: When too much of a good thing may be bad.

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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. That question is the topic of this research paper, which I’m reporting on today: Beaudry, S. But there’s quite a bit of that hype.

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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. After ten weeks of teaching in an ALC, I wanted to report back on what it's like.

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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.