Teachers have long known that not every student is perfectly suited to traditional classroom setups, but with budgets tight, doling out individual attention is not always a reality. What if there was ...
Walk into Jeff Conner’s classroom at Union High School and you’ll wonder if you’ve entered a Silicon Valley tech startup rather than a geometry class. Students sprawled out on a couch, leaning over ...
Wearing a sweatshirt over a bright blue anti-bullying shirt, Alayna Hurley sat in a chair facing Kristi Sikora- Blankenship’s desk, working quietly on a test as her classmates were strewn behind her ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best classroom seating arrangements? Figuring out seating arrangements is one of the most important decisions we teachers have to make—not only about ...
More teachers are using flexible, or flex, seating inside their classrooms. It allows students to learn while sitting on the floor, a yoga ball, or even on a crate at school. For the second year in a ...
Andersen Elementary School teacher Alexandria Gladstone-Lamas wants her classroom to be more like a Google office. Gone are traditional desks and chairs — they were moved to a separate room at the ...
Education eats good ideas. It boils down its best levers for change into cliches and shells of ideas. The complex is turned into checklists and clickbait. Modern classroom design is sitting on this ...
The teacher’s educational philosophy will be reflected in the layout of the classroom. Robert Sommer Ever walk into a classroom and just feel good? I certainly have. On a few recent school visits, I ...
CHINQUAPIN, N.C. (WECT) - LeAnn Hunter believes her students are exceptional in more ways than one and she’d like to reward them with flexible seats in her classroom. Specifically, the preK teacher at ...