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Today’s Classrooms Should Be About Flexible Teaching—Not Furniture

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The facilitator shared pictures of sleek, stylish yet functional seats, tables and “Starbucks”-style setups while others asked questions and shared ideas about how to get the latest furniture in their classrooms. Some offered contact information about “classroom designers” and school vendors.

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Inside ‘Room 21C’: This Iowa Classroom’s Redesign Inspired Seven Other Districts

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(Room 21C) But there’s a problem: while teachers would generally be excited about the new resources available, they would return to the same old classroom they left. The lecture and the ole’ stand-and-deliver models of traditional practice tend to continue forward, resulting in little to no change in instructional practice.

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