Working in the education design space collectively for 26 years, we understand students and teachers need environments to support learning. Classrooms should be designed for listening and engagement; ...

Nowadays, many students have behavioral difficulties: lack of concentration, limited autonomy, incessant chatter, etc. What if part of the solution lay in the ergonomics and layout of a classroom?

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All the first graders in Jean Duran’s class at River Grove School outside Chicago knew the drill: when they were gathered on the multi-colored carpet at the front of the room, they had to pay strict ...

A new study shows how color, lighting, and other classroom design choices can have a huge impact on student progress. As debate over education reform sizzles, and as teachers valiantly continue trying ...

One of the most important decisions that teachers make at the start of the school year—and continue to consider throughout the year—is the classroom layout and seating arrangements. Where each student ...

After studying 3,766 students and 153 classrooms in 27 primary schools across the United Kingdom, researchers from the University of Salford have found that simple changes to classroom design can have ...

EdSource · Los Angeles parents fight for and win intensive tutoring for kids hurt by Covid One area that has remained relatively untouched by Silicon Valley’s famed “disruptive” ethos is the design of ...

Like a jazz dance performance, active learning combines doing, movement and impromptu variety in a way that gets students and faculty up and out of their usual positions in the classroom. The room and ...

I recently taught an intensive summer course on personality psychology. The class was held every day for a couple of hours during July. Although this was not my first teaching assignment, it was my ...

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Peter Barrett received funding for this work from IBI Nightingale and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. We all know how important it is that our primary school teachers are ...