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6 new grants to consider in the new year

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2019

Steelcase Education is seeking innovative middle and high school educators and educational institutions looking to implement and expand active learning initiatives to apply for its fifth annual Active Learning Center Grant.

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7 discoveries from an active learning classroom

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Four years ago, I became an inaugural recipient of a Steelcase Education Active Learning Center Grant. Through active learning, the teacher gradually releases control to the students, encouraging them to become independent learners.

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How Furniture and Flexible Seating Is Turning Classroom Design Into a Fad

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2018

Education eats good ideas. Designers aren’t led by momentum, inertia, tradition or the latest education fads. As educator Pernille Ripp recently reminded us, what is flexible furniture without flexible learning? Designers aren’t led by momentum, inertia, tradition or the latest education fads.

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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. Steelcase Education on Dec. Up to 15 grant recipients will have the opportunity to install one of four learning environments featuring Steelcase Education’s state-of-the-art furniture and technology.

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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The USDOE’s Office of Educational Technology places emphasis on students and educators having access to a robust and comprehensive infrastructure when and where they need it for learning. Access to mobile devices that connect learners and educators to the vast resources of the Internet and facilitate communication and collaboration.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

When designing the space, it’s important for educators not to overstimulate and thus detract students’ ability to focus but to provide enough stimuli to enhance the learning experience. Today’s educational paradigm is no longer one of knowledge transfer but one of knowledge creation and curation. Steelcase Education.

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Get Involved In Classroom Design: A Grant to Upgrade Your Classroom

ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Here’s an opportunity: if you teach grades 8–12 or at an institution of higher education, Steelcase – a company that sells products and services for corporate offices, classrooms, and healthcare settings – is offering some substantial grants for you to redesign your classroom into an “active learning center.”

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Four rules for hybrid meetings

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 16, 2023

In 2017 when I was on sabbatical at Steelcase , the Steelcase Education team had an all-hands meeting every Monday morning. Plus, all of my classes this term are on our second campus, away from my office and the Math Department (where most of my meetings are held). So I have a particular agenda with this topic.

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Coronavirus Triple Duty: Working, Parenting And Teaching From Home

MindShift

MARCH 18, 2020

Having things like a schedule is very important,” says Hertirch, an account manager for office furnishings company Steelcase. To minimize disruption to childrens’ education, keep a strict schedule and a list of goals to meet, says Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Renewing innovation

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JUNE 28, 2023

Innovation is one of those words in higher education that people have come to dread. Or when it has meaning, it is merely code for "unfunded mandates" or "unpaid labor" This is all too bad, because I think innovation in higher education is a noble idea. Administrators love it.

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What factors help active learning classrooms succeed?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 11, 2023

I’ve been studying ALCs for a while now — it was the subject of my sabbatical at Steelcase in 2017-2018 and this paper on the subject that resulted. I know Sharon because she was recently Scholar-in-Residence at Steelcase, the position that was created for, and which I held during my sabbatical. What did the study find?

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Can a simple classroom redesign inspire student achievement?

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Rolling chairs are an essential part of Steelcase Active Learning centers. Ours was one of only a few dozen schools awarded similar classroom overhauls through the Steelcase Education Active Learning Center Grant Program. Here, students gather around teacher, Julie Marshall for a lesson.

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To Get More Students to Office Hours, Colleges Rethink the Faculty Office

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Selingo, a former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, who wrote a white paper on innovative faculty office designs for the furniture company Steelcase. The concept is called “hoteling,” explains Jeffrey J. Everybody gets a space, but it’s not ‘your space,’” he explains.

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In the marketplace: Funding for active learning, a helping hand for innovative programs, and an interactive book program

eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change.

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What it's like to teach in an active learning classroom

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 23, 2022

As most readers know, I spent the 2017-2018 academic year on sabbatical at Steelcase doing research on active learning spaces, which resulted in this comprehensive literature review paper co-authored with architect Anat Mor-Avi. .; and easy access to digital and analog learning tools including whiteboards, projectors, and power supplies.

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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Last fall I started my first day on the job as an embedded faculty member with a corporation—as a scholar-in-residence at Steelcase Education. Actually intern is probably the best lens through which to look at what I’ve been doing at Steelcase for the last eight months. I’ve done design sprints with people high up the org chart.

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How Furniture and Flexible Seating Is Turning Classroom Design Into a Fad

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