Learning Spaces and Participation

How we designed a space where our students connect, collaborate, and flourish

eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2025

Designed and outfitted by MiEN and Meteor Education, the Empowerment Center is where kids go to hang out, collaborate, and/or participate in school club activities. This changed when we moved into our forever home in South Gate, where an on-campus Empowerment Center serves as a modern, welcoming “student hub.”

Students

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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Purposeful Application to Teamwork A practical and successful strategy is to design performance tasks using cooperative learning structures deliberately. Aside from promoting positive interdependence and individual accountability, students participate equally through simultaneous interactions.

Assignments

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Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical Thinking

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), microlearning, and learning analytics provides new dimensions to this pedagogical approach, enhancing both student preparation and in-class engagement. Addressing Fear Through Technology-Supported Safety Fear is one of the most formidable barriers to classroom participation.

Critical Thinking

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Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical Thinking

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), microlearning, and learning analytics provides new dimensions to this pedagogical approach, enhancing both student preparation and in-class engagement. Addressing Fear Through Technology-Supported Safety Fear is one of the most formidable barriers to classroom participation.

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes

The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Purposeful Application to Teamwork A practical and successful strategy is to design performance tasks using cooperative learning structures deliberately. Aside from promoting positive interdependence and individual accountability, students participate equally through simultaneous interactions.

Assignments

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation

AEF Schools: Empowering Students with Individualized Learning, Social Growth, and Real-World Skills

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. But more than their qualifications, AEFs teachers bring patience, creativity, and a deep understanding of how to engage students in meaningful learning experiences.

Skills

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Enhance Student Engagement with Virtual Social Learning Spaces

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Despite the challenges associated with this moment in education, technology is rapidly evolving to allow students more opportunities to engage in social learning spaces online. Virtual social learning spaces create opportunities for the social and academic aspects of learning to collide. Encourage self-assessment.

Learning Spaces

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Teachers say modern learning spaces are critical for student achievement

eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2018

And now, teachers are clamoring for modern learning spaces instead of rows of desks facing the front of the classroom, according to new research.

Learning Spaces

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6 ways to create engaging elementary learning spaces

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our goal is to shift pedagogy toward a “culture of thinking” that supports more student agency and more effective use of the learning space itself. As part of that mission, we knew we needed innovative furnishings for the learning environments, which would go hand-in-hand with that work.

Learning Spaces

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New grant will provide active learning spaces to schools

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Steelcase Education grant leverages classroom space to implement new teaching practices. 1 launched the second annual Active Learning Center (ALC) Grant , a program to provide active learning spaces to schools across North America. Steelcase Education on Dec.

Learning Spaces

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3 ways to support teachers in flexible learning environments

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

Teachers at the renovated schools started seeing an increase in student engagement and finding easier ways to encourage students to participate. Everyone found new ways to safely utilize the new learning spaces as we returned to in-person learning.

Teachers

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Nureva receives Frost & Sullivan 2020 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award

eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Nureva’s advanced audio systems leverage the technology to provide consistent full-room microphone pickup, continuous autocalibration and intelligent sound targeting to eliminate unwanted sounds, like HVAC, making them an ideal match for today’s hybrid meeting and learning spaces. About Nureva audio solutions. Nureva Inc.

Technology

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Eduprotocols Field Guide: Elementary Edition

Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

She is an original member of Equity in Action CA , which strives to create learning spaces rooted in diversity as well as implement strategies to design welcoming spaces for belonging and inclusion. The goal is to streamline the teaching process while maximizing student participation, understanding, and skill development.

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Friday 5: How esports engages students

eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2024

When schools invest in esports teams, they’re investing in high-level hardware that also integrates into STEM and STEAM programs, which means students wind up having more opportunities to get hands-on experience and learn in-demand skills for careers. How do I participate in esports tournaments? Here’s how to get started.

Students

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4 ideas to consider when designing a STEM lab

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

It’s a key area of teaching worldwide and thousands of schools are now investing in learning spaces specifically designed to support STEM–called STEM labs. A STEM lab is a learning environment where students, irrespective of grade, can come together and actively participate in hands-on or practical STEM learning.

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4 tips for creating an elementary esports program

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2023

The benefits of esports make a compelling case for creating a program: Research shows that students who participate in scholastic esports experience social and emotional benefits, increased academic achievement, and higher graduation rates. To ensure the development of a successful elementary esports program, here are four helpful tips: 1.

Game-Based Learning

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5 of the biggest education trends in 2023

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Self-led, active learning will also see a rise as teachers enable students to work at their own pace and make more decisions about their learning––from what types of assignments they complete to how they want to work in the classroom. In the past several years, schools have also seen an increase in esports team participation.

Education

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What really goes into a high-impact K-12 classroom?

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2018

Using an infusion of technology, high-impact classroom furniture, and teachers’ creativity, this initiative helps districts create learning spaces that look, feel, and operate differently than traditional models and instead support our current Google age! Ready, set, go!

Learning Spaces

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5 major education trends in 2023

eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Self-led, active learning will also see a rise as teachers enable students to work at their own pace and make more decisions about their learning––from what types of assignments they complete to how they want to work in the classroom. In the past several years, schools have also seen an increase in esports team participation.

Education

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Nureva achieves ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its Information Security Management System

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

is a technology-rich, multiple award-winning private company that imagines and builds audio conferencing solutions that solve the frustrating and persistent problem of poor audio performance in meeting and learning spaces. About Nureva Nureva Inc.

Achievement

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Prioritizing social growth during online learning

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Encourage students to dress up and send parents tips on how to decorate their children’s learning space. Extracurricular activities can break up the monotony of online learning and provide an opportunity to practice social skills, too. Students can participate in virtual extracurricular activities, too.

Online Learning

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Simple steps to navigate difficult classroom discussions

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Be mindful of sharing personal views and their influence on student participation. Being an active facilitator Guide the discussion by rephrasing questions, clarifying points, and ensuring all perspectives are considered. Remember, your students look up to you and respect you (yes, really!).

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Leveraging edtech for differentiated instruction

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Modern classrooms benefit from virtual whiteboard spaces that support simultaneous input from multiple users, enabling teachers to guide collective learning while monitoring individual participation and understanding.

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#5: 10 things teachers can do today to prepare students for the future

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

To keep current, teachers are required to participate in professional development and are faithfully adapting their curricula to include STE(A)M and social skills that are a necessity in the workforce. Sitting in rows and facing front is no longer the best option for students to participate in the classroom. 10 steps to support change.

Teachers

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SplashLearn Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding Round From Owl Ventures & Accel

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company began 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. Accel, who earlier invested $7 million in Series B, also participated in this round. San Francisco based Owl Ventures is the largest edtech sector-focused venture capital firm in the world.

Game-Based Learning

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STEM priorities: Computer science, funding, and gamification

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

How gamification is driving learning space design. Gamification is moving from simple novelty to a valid pedagogical approach that can deliver powerful learning experiences in higher education and K-12 classrooms alike—and this growth has led to changes in how educators approach their classrooms and physical learning spaces.

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ClassIn Launches its World-Class Teaching and Learning Platform in the United States

eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

Offering Strategic Hardware Solutions: ClassIn X transforms traditional classrooms into outcome-driven hybrid learning spaces through an IoT hardware package that digitizes the physical classroom.

Teaching

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I offer free online therapy to teens. Here’s what I’m seeing–and why it matters

eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But they dont need to be experiencing symptoms of mental illness or living with loss to participate. 9 ways to honor diversity and cultivate safe learning spaces For more news on student well-being, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Teens may be experiencing anxiety or depression, or they may be grieving.

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4 ways forward-thinking districts are inspiring more students to code

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

How innovative districts are exposing more students to coding and closing the participation gap. Nine thousand Highline students participated in the December 2015 “Hour of Code.” The district commits to closing the participation gap in CS for English learners, foster students, homeless students, low-income and disadvantaged students.

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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Form follows function, as the adage says, but these universities are flipping that script and betting that a more flexible and adaptive form will unlock needed changes in the teaching and learning function. And that dialogue helps inform the work of IU’s learning spaces team.

Active Learning

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5 critical ingredients in a school safety plan

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2024

This is necessary to counter an ever-changing and increasingly prominent threat landscape where weapons enter schools and compromise the safety of learning spaces. In response, districts nationwide are investing in human and technological resources to improve security for students, teachers, and parents. Many still don’t feel prepared.

Schools

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The Key to Better Student Engagement Is Letting Them Show You How They Learn

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Sometimes these conversations are with administrators concerned about the increasing numbers of students on the schools D-F list or with teachers disconsolate about students who won’t turn on their cameras, turn in work or participate in discussions and whose attendance (virtual or in-person) is sporadic at best.

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Nureva HDL300 system is now Microsoft Teams certified

eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2021

After undergoing Microsoft’s rigorous testing process, the HDL300 system becomes the first microphone and speaker bar to be certified for large meeting spaces up to 15′ x 28′ (4.5 About Nureva audio solutions. Nureva Inc.

Hybrid Learning

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Nureva adds Voice Amplification Mode to audio systems for K–12 classrooms

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

About Nureva audio solutions Nureva’s line of audio conferencing systems solve the frustrating and persistent problem of poor audio performance in meeting and learning spaces from large to small. Download images of the HDL300 audio conferencing systems in use with voice amplification. About Nureva Nureva Inc.

Learning Spaces

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Elevating family leadership to foster student success

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Education settings that celebrate family participation help students and teachers understand different ways of thinking and create inclusive learning spaces. Organizing virtual sessions, offering multilingual support, and providing access to childcare services let more caregivers participate in school activities.

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Nureva joins the Logitech Collaboration Program

eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2021

The combination of Nureva audio and Logitech products make it easy for teams to instantly collaborate in a hybrid environment where in-room participants are clearly heard – no matter how they’re distanced. About Nureva Nureva Inc.

Learning Spaces

Learning Spaces Participation Achievement Technology

This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In a study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University in 2016, researchers monitored the brain activity of study participants as they confronted complex math problems that demanded creative mathematical reasoning. When we cultivate learning spaces designed to inspire and spark curiosity, students begin to forge their own mathematical identities.

Culture

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Nureva XT Classroom Solutions Extend In-room Experience to Remote Students

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Easily combined with existing classroom technology products (such as projectors and displays), the solutions enable live participation of remote students, while also supporting full-classroom audio pickup – all via a single USB connection to the instructor’s computer. Calgary, Alberta — September 15, 2021 — Nureva Inc.,

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The Future of MOOCs Must Be Decolonized

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

or Europe and transferred almost uni-directionally to enormously diverse global participants who are treated as mere recipients of content. Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning.

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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. These design choices have noticeable implications.

Online Learning

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Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Moving the students to the center of their learning, instead of the teacher, increased participation, engagement, completion of assignments and built a dynamic, inquiry-based classroom culture. As I’ve learned, it is past-time for the removal of arbitrary time-constraints, such as Carnegie minutes, as the driving factor in learning.

Learning

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Emotionally Connected Learning Is Possible Online. Start With Relationships.

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

These are timeless learnings that help us pave the way forward, even in uncertain times. Participants need to feel connected to you as a facilitator of the learning. Online learning is most effective when everyone belongs. Design a learning space that encourages open wondering, questioning, and inquiry.

Learning

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Inspiring… or not

Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Participating in artificial, recipe-like science ‘experiments’ from a publishing company is not. Internships and community partnerships and impactful service learning opportunities are inspiring. Learning spaces that honor children’s dignity and value their worth are inspiring. And so on… Inspiring… or not.

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Designing Classrooms Fit for Early Learners

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Here are several design strategies that early childhood educators and program leaders should keep in mind whether setting up a classroom, redesigning an existing learning space or designing a new facility. Classroom walls can support different activities and provide children agency to engage.

Multidisciplinary

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How we designed a space where our students connect, collaborate, and flourish

The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

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Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical Thinking

Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical Thinking

The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

AEF Schools: Empowering Students with Individualized Learning, Social Growth, and Real-World Skills

Enhance Student Engagement with Virtual Social Learning Spaces

Teachers say modern learning spaces are critical for student achievement

6 ways to create engaging elementary learning spaces

New grant will provide active learning spaces to schools

3 ways to support teachers in flexible learning environments

Nureva receives Frost & Sullivan 2020 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award

Eduprotocols Field Guide: Elementary Edition

Friday 5: How esports engages students

4 ideas to consider when designing a STEM lab

4 tips for creating an elementary esports program

5 of the biggest education trends in 2023

What really goes into a high-impact K-12 classroom?

5 major education trends in 2023

Nureva achieves ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its Information Security Management System

Prioritizing social growth during online learning

Simple steps to navigate difficult classroom discussions

Leveraging edtech for differentiated instruction

#5: 10 things teachers can do today to prepare students for the future

SplashLearn Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding Round From Owl Ventures & Accel

STEM priorities: Computer science, funding, and gamification

ClassIn Launches its World-Class Teaching and Learning Platform in the United States

I offer free online therapy to teens. Here’s what I’m seeing–and why it matters

4 ways forward-thinking districts are inspiring more students to code

Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

5 critical ingredients in a school safety plan

The Key to Better Student Engagement Is Letting Them Show You How They Learn

Nureva HDL300 system is now Microsoft Teams certified

Nureva adds Voice Amplification Mode to audio systems for K–12 classrooms

Elevating family leadership to foster student success

Nureva joins the Logitech Collaboration Program

This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Nureva XT Classroom Solutions Extend In-room Experience to Remote Students

The Future of MOOCs Must Be Decolonized

Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

Emotionally Connected Learning Is Possible Online. Start With Relationships.

Inspiring… or not

Designing Classrooms Fit for Early Learners

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