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. This program helps students turn frustration into achievement by teaching them how to manage tasks effectively and approach learning with a problem-solving mindset.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2025

Art : Sunflowers in digital sketches teach color theory via tablets. Blossoming Education with Petals Flowers transform learning spaces. A bouquet gifted to a teacher for a STEM fair adds warmth to the event, while marigolds shared in a class garden project teach sustainability. Theyre a bridge to community too.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2017

Redesigned learning spaces. Yet another might work toward integration of its teaching staff into online, project-based learning communities of practice, with a goal of sparking more student-driven learning in its local classrooms. Digital and online (and often open access) information resources.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2024

As schools seek to ensure all students learn to their fullest potential, a new guide explores ideas and strategies for creating inclusive learning spaces. While there are neurodiverse students in every school in the country, many learning environments are not designed to address their unique gifts and needs.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When we built a new 3-story high school building on our former baseball field, we knew that we wanted to incorporate spaces where students could learn and teachers could teach in a very collaborative manner. Those are our collaborative spaces, and they’re where we got to be creative in terms of planning and design.

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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. In fact, it was pure gold.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It’s been said for years: We can’t help our students become citizens in an evolving and global workplace if we’re teaching them in last century’s classrooms. And now, teachers are clamoring for modern learning spaces instead of rows of desks facing the front of the classroom, according to new research.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

What is the future of learning spaces? The spaces we inhabit have a profound effect on how we inhabit them. Space induces a particular way of feeling, of being. We look inside current learning spaces and look at the world; there is a big disconnect. These are the questions of an educational space designer.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

To that end, we turned our attention to rethinking and redesigning our classroom learning spaces to fit the 21 st century needs of our students. And if we turned the tables and we were observing students in a cutting-edge learning environment, what would we see and hear? of board space; 2.) Teachers love lots (LOTS!)

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2021

has been rocked by a global pandemic, the impact of systemic racism, and acts of political violence, many educators have wondered how to create a “learning space” to address difficult subjects. In a year where the U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2024

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Enhancing learning through cultural relevance Bloom’s Taxonomy offers a framework for educational objectives, emphasizing higher-order thinking skills such as analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Build relationships : Take time to learn about your students’ backgrounds, interests, and experiences.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

And keep in mind that collaboration is being heartily embraced in the workplace, so we must teach our children how to operate in that kind of environment early on. Options like adjustable-height tables and mobile desks that can be quickly reconfigured for the task or project at hand have solved those problems. How to work in small pods.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Spotting a converted school bus on the road is always a cool experience. What replaced those beloved rows of seats, and how did the vision for such a project originate?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The core SEL competencies help develop good mental, emotional, and social health — three elements that can contribute immensely to dismantling safety issues such as bullying and creating safe learning spaces. For one, social-emotional learning helps students understand how their decisions will impact others.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Take Steps to Make Modern Learning Spaces A Reality. Imagine the perfect learning environment for your students. Would there be a space for students to collaborate on projects or for them to work alone? In the beginning, it’s all about the learning experience — as it should be. Space is so important to learning.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 5, 2018

8 Steps to Create a Successful Modern Learning Space. Modern learning spaces can have a big impact on both students and teachers. One quick way to tell whether modern learning environment improvements will truly transform teaching and learning is to look at the classroom layout. meghan.bogardu….

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

To help educators make the most of new teaching strategies and tools, MiEN Company has published “ A Guide to Creating Dynamic Active Learning Spaces.”. The guide describes the many advantages of flexible and mobile learning spaces. A Guide to Creating Dynamic Active Learning Spaces” is available at [link].

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2019

How do we best bridge this divide and bring education into the digital learning space where students reside? Our students are mostly digital learners. We, as teachers, are not. How do we take what we as teachers know in one literacy and allow students to demonstrate mastery in another, without losing control of the classroom?

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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.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

It supports active learning, student flexibility, and various teaching and learning methods. The pandemic exacerbated this issue, as most schools implemented “emergency remote teaching” instead of pedagogically aligned instruction, cobbling together many disparate technologies that were not built or designed for education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2021

Identified by EDUCAUSE as a top strategic technology , active learning classrooms (ALCs) go beyond just outfitting learning spaces with technology. These engaging, dynamic spaces provide new pedagogical opportunities, support active learning, and help students develop relevant skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2024, this momentum will continue, bringing forth new edtech, innovative teaching approaches, and inspiring learning spaces. This year, schools are directing their energy towards supporting teacher well-being and reengaging students through innovative learning spaces and edtech.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Language teacher Serena Maniscalco never thought a composting initiative she led several years ago would lead to the development of an learning space that would help so many students grow. And if she teaches a unit on, say, Dolores Huerta or Cesar Chavez, she’ll take her class out to work in the garden for a change of scenery.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In 2024, this momentum will continue, bringing forth new edtech, innovative teaching approaches, and inspiring learning spaces. This year, schools are directing their energy towards supporting teacher well-being and reengaging students through innovative learning spaces and edtech.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

In addition to teaching, Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors for CUE. 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. She has her M.A. in Instructional Technology.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. I cannot and should not assume,” says Schatzberg, who also directs the Center for Teaching and Learning at Utah Tech. “We

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 8, 2015

Although you’re not likely to bring in Italian rugs or French artwork to the classroom, the learning space is a very important aspect of effective teaching. Here’s what to consider for your learning space when using an LMS. Imagine how incorporating a similar concept could transform the learning space.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2018

A one-size-fits-all approach to learning doesn’t suit today’s students, and the same can be said for schools and classrooms–learning spaces will increasingly need to become flexible, accommodating multiple learning styles to enable students to perform their best.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2016

My first year teaching I remember spending the week before school setting up my new classroom. As my teaching partner in crime, Marika Neto, so eloquently put it, “Creating your own space for learning is the first step in creating.” I also believed that an effective classroom was a quiet classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2019

Perhaps you feel your school has stalled on its own journey to an innovative learning space. Or maybe you’re looking for a good starting point to refresh your school and your approach to teaching and learning. The Village School (Houston, TX). Start by building a lesson plan or project.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2020

Perhaps you feel your school has stalled on its own journey to an innovative learning space. Or maybe you’re looking for a good starting point to refresh your school and your approach to teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We offer self-contained and behavioral support classes for students with significant exceptionalities, which some of us teach in designated classrooms that have remained intact. I teach 25 students a day, providing a combination of push-in and pull-out support. One of those conditions is a safe, comfortable, consistent space to learn.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

What should faculty who want to teach inclusively consider with all this context? We interviewed two experts in inclusive college teaching: Chandani Patel, director of global diversity education and training in the Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation at New York University.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. The challenge with teaching these skills, however, is time. In the middle is teaching a lesson however you might normally do it.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

The goals aim to ensure that learning is still focused on rigor and hitting the standards, but that students are also learning soft skills and advocating for their own education and needs as learners. Students have more agency in their education and are becoming creators and contributors in the learning process.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The report is organized into 6 key trends, 6 significant challenges, and 6 developments in edtech that are going to impact K-12 teaching, learning and creative inquiry. Overall, the report series tracks the five-year impact that innovative practices and new technologies have on K-12 education.

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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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