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 ...

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 ...

Replace rows of desks with varied workspaces and movable furniture to empower students to take hold of their own learning. Eli has been eagerly pursuing a journalistic career since he left the ...

You won’t find second-graders arranged in rows of desks at the Oaklandvale Elementary School, where stability balls, hokki stools and standing desks are among the seating options afforded to students ...

Flexible seating options have been trending in classrooms for students of all ages in the past few years. Instead of requiring students to sit, sometimes for hours at a time, at traditional desks and ...

Classroom design plays a critical role in how students absorb information and interact with their surroundings. A ...

THOMASVILLE — A typical classroom is lined with standard desks. Vanessa Singley’s classroom at Scott Elementary is different. No “traditional” desks. A first-year fifth grade math teacher, Singley’s ...

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 ...