In a recent article, I shared some ideas about how seating challenges can reveal useful data about class chemistry and individual students during the first week of school. But what next? How can we ...

THOMASVILLE — A typical classroom is lined with standard desks. Vanessa Singley’s classroom at Scott Elementary is different. No “traditional” desks. A first-year fifth grade math teacher, Singley’s ...

sThe first day of school brings many changes. Students must acclimate themselves to a new routine and curriculum, while teachers must acquaint themselves with an entirely new crop of students. The ...

You would never believe how much time and attention teachers put into this one area of classroom management: student seating arrangements. "It is a big deal," Salt Lake City educator Aimee Jensen ...

Amber Chandler is a national-board-certified 8th grade ELA teacher and the author of The Flexible ELA Classroom and The Flexible SEL Classroom. She’s the president of her district teachers’ union, and ...

The teacher’s educational philosophy will be reflected in the layout of the classroom. Robert Sommer Ever walk into a classroom and just feel good? I certainly have. On a few recent school visits, I ...

Walk through the door of Jessica McBreen's second-grade classroom at Chenango Forks Elementary School, and one thing quickly becomes apparent. There aren't any desks. Instead, students are scattered ...

Last year, when EdTech: Focus on K–12 reported on the trend of teachers getting rid of desks in the classroom, we heard from numerous educators who’d successfully gone deskless and loved it. Similarly ...

Gandhinagar: Long before schools in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, and Tripura began implementing U-shaped classroom seating arrangement inspired by a Malayalam film released last year, the concept had ...

The teacher’s educational philosophy will be reflected in the layout of the classroom. Robert Sommer Ever walk into a classroom and just feel good? I certainly have. On a few recent school visits, I ...