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MiEN Company Releases White Paper on How Flexible Furniture Creates Active Learning Environments

eSchool News

To help educators, Dr. Christina Counts, the vice president of education at MiEN Company, and Dr. Kristen Brittingham, the chief learning officer for Modern Teacher, have co-authored a white paper titled “Active Learning Environments Support Student Engagement, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking.”.

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New Gaggle White Paper Helps Districts Understand and Support Students Struggling With Mental Health

eSchool News

To help educators understand and respond to this deepening crisis, Gaggle has published a new white paper titled “ Addressing the Crisis in Student Mental Health: How Districts Can Identify and Support Struggling Students.”. It shares four case studies highlighting different ways of accomplishing this goal.

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How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

A flexible classroom is a learning environment that utilizes an “agile physical setup that will accommodate both independent and group work,” according to a CDW white paper on constructing modern classrooms. Currently, few studies have looked deeply into the benefits of flexible classroom design. What Is a Flexible Classroom?

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Leading Change? Start by Talking About What You Value

Education Elements

Our team has compiled a series of illustrative case studies of district stories and practices, but we wanted to learn more to help answer these questions. We conducted a deep study with 100 leaders from 60 systems across the country to understand how they are making decisions about how to lead innovation work in their communities.

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ICE 2019: Physical Arrangement Sets the Tone for K–12 Modern Learning Environments

EdTech Magazine

In a three-year study , researchers at the University of Minnesota were able to determine that students in an active-learning environment performed as well or better than their counterparts studying in a lecture-style format — and did so in a shorter amount of time. Research Supports the Benefits of Modern Learning Environments.

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Understanding How Spatial-Temporal Math Works

MIND Research Institute

In this white paper, you will learn how: Game-based learning can provide a preferred means to teach math. Studies reveal that creative reasoning outperforms algorithmic approaches by allowing students to be creators of their own knowledge. Read more about its concepts, mechanisms, and efficacy in the white paper.

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How our changing world is shifting the way Gen Z is influenced by post-secondary marketing

eSchool News

Glacier and Academica Group’s annual White Paper Report, ‘State of Advertising to High School Students in 2020′, sheds light on Gen Z’s changing social media habits and how they respond to advertising. This year, TikTok emerged as a widely popular platform globally and also in the study.