Flexible Classrooms
Flexible classrooms aren鈥檛 only about furniture鈥攖hey鈥檙e also about mindset and pedagogy. Learn how you can utilize space to amplify student engagement.
Designing Your Classroom for Collaborative Teaching
These design strategies can help support relationship-building and active learning in a team-teaching environment.
Classroom Design Essentials for Educators
A collection of our popular articles and videos on budget-friendly, research-backed ways to set up your classroom鈥攁nd how to keep students, spaces, and SEL in mind.21.6kYour content has been saved!
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Dos and Don鈥檛s of Classroom Decorations
What you put on your classroom walls can affect your students鈥� ability to learn.The Science of Classroom Design
Our comprehensive, all-in, research-based look at the design of effective learning spaces.4 Research-Backed Ideas to Upgrade Your Classroom
As teachers prepare their classrooms for a new school year, these low-cost changes can make a big difference in students鈥� learning experience.
Flexible Classrooms: Research Is Scarce, But Promising
An ambitious study of 153 classrooms in the United Kingdom provides the best evidence that flexible spaces can boost academic performance.48kYour content has been saved!
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7 Outstanding K鈥�8 Flexible Classrooms
K鈥�8 educators from across the country give you a peek at their classrooms鈥攁nd explain how they managed the transformations.48.7kYour content has been saved!
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Flexible Seating and Student-Centered Classroom Redesign
How a visit to Starbucks inspired a change to flexible seating鈥攁nd then some changes in teaching philosophy.28.8kYour content has been saved!
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Designing Flexible Seating With Students
A veteran elementary teacher shares what he鈥檚 learned from eight years of聽building a student-centered environment.16kYour content has been saved!
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High School Flexible Seating Done Right
Interested in switching to flexible seating? Get funding ideas, helpful tips, and how-to photos from the pros鈥攜our fellow high school teachers.19.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Reflections on Shifting to a Flexible Classroom
A middle school teacher shares聽the benefits of聽giving students voice and choice in their learning environment.12.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How to Set Up a Learner-Centered Classroom
From composing a class charter to practicing morning meetings, these student-centered strategies create a nurturing environment where learners can thrive.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.10 Common Flexible Seating Myths
An elementary teacher who has been using flexible seating for over a decade responds to the concerns he hears most frequently from other teachers.6.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Can Flexible Classrooms Boost Student Achievement?
The research suggests that flexibility and a sense of ownership make a real difference for students鈥攂ut it's not the furniture at work.6.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Learning to Be Flexible
For middle and high school teachers who avoid lecturing, the switch to flexible seating means the room aligns with their teaching style.5.9kYour content has been saved!
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