Flexible Furniture Archives

28 Oct

Creating Student Centers Focused on Optimizing Student Success Beyond High School

Creating Student Centers Focused on Optimizing Student Success Beyond High School The Education Foundation of Sarasota County works with MiEN to develop innovative student success centers for high school students attending Sarasota County Schools. Focused on supporting Sarasota County Schools’ students, teachers, and schools, the Education Foundation of Sarasota County is a non-profit that works...

21 Aug

5 Ways to Redesign a Media Center During COVID-19

5 Ways to Redesign a Media Center During COVID-19 Author: Dr. Christina Counts If the global pandemic sidelined your plans for creating a very inviting, collaborative, nurturing media center space, get your vision back on track with these five success tips. As central hubs of school activity, media centers are the places that students, teachers,...

23 Jul

Active Learning Through Tech-Friendly Spaces

Active Learning Through Tech-Friendly Spaces Learning can and should happen everywhere in a school––from classrooms to common spaces to the cafeteria––and flexible learning spaces support this objective. But once you’ve created responsive learning spaces through layout and furniture design, what can you do to further support learning throughout your school? One way to support learning...

10 Jul

Slate Run Elementary Implements Unique, Flexible Furniture in its Brand-New School Building

Slate Run Elementary Implements Unique, Flexible Furniture in its Brand-New School Building Working with MiEN, this Indiana school took two years to build a brand-new facility that supports collaborative learning, small-group instruction, and project-based learning. Outfitting an existing school building with modern furnishings is one thing, but taking a ground-up approach in a brand-new facility...

29 Jun

Designing Responsive Learning Spaces Throughout a School

Designing Responsive Learning Spaces Throughout a School Author: Dr. Christina Counts To best support learning, classrooms need to be responsive and flexible to fit schools’ changing needs and uses. Responsive learning spaces adapt to the needs of a variety of subjects, grade levels, and students. These flexible learning environments encourage creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration,...

26 Jun

Shifting Learning Space Design to Combat COVID-19: 7 Design Tips

Shifting Learning Space Design to Combat COVID-19: 7 Design Tips Author: Dr. Christina Counts Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, learning space design has had to adapt and grow to create healthy and functional learning spaces. One of the key components to safe, healthy learning space design is creating flexible learning spaces that can serve multiple...

17 Jun

Leveraging the Maker Movement to Build Tech-Savvy Students Ready for the Future Workforce

Leveraging the Maker Movement to Build Tech-Savvy Students Ready for the Future Workforce Author: Dr. Christina Counts The maker movement is a game changer reinventing the rules for innovation in the world of crafters, hackers, & tinkers! The current generation of students is glued to their phones, iPads, computers, gaming consoles and realistically, we adults...

20 May

Designing for Healthy and Functional Learning Spaces

Designing for Healthy and Functional Learning Spaces Author: Dr. Christina Counts As the 2019-2020 school year wraps up remotely for schools all over the country, district leaders and educators are turning their attention to the fall 2020 semester and what it will look like when students return to the classroom. Schools and districts are focused...

Tags: Flexible Furniture

Creating Student Centers Focused on Optimizing Student Success Beyond High School

5 Ways to Redesign a Media Center During COVID-19

Active Learning Through Tech-Friendly Spaces

Slate Run Elementary Implements Unique, Flexible Furniture in its Brand-New School Building

Designing Responsive Learning Spaces Throughout a School

Shifting Learning Space Design to Combat COVID-19: 7 Design Tips

Leveraging the Maker Movement to Build Tech-Savvy Students Ready for the Future Workforce

Designing for Healthy and Functional Learning Spaces

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