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Modern Library Transformation – Technology, Collaboration, and Flexibility
April is the American Association of School Librarians’ School Library Month, recognizing the essential role that libraries play in transforming learning – in fact, the 2016 School Library Month theme...
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Advancing Critical 21st Century Skills Through Collaborative Learning
With the adoption of 21st Century Learning initiatives nationwide, administrators at Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) realized it was high time to implement forward-thinking learning facilities in...
View ArticleSchool Specialty to Showcase Furniture & Equipment for 21st Century Learning...
School Specialty will be showcasing a variety of furniture & equipment offerings for 21st Century Learning environments at the Education Market Association’s EDspaces conference. The conference...
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A Classroom Makeover Fit for 21st Century Learning
We couldn’t be more excited to announce School Specialty’s latest collaboration with the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation to complete the first Extra Yard Classroom Makeover Project at the...
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Flexible Seating for a Modern Learning Experience
Flexible seating can encompass a variety of different furniture options. Mobile seating can be reconfigured into a variety of formations to support varied teaching methods, which is a key tenet of 21st...
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Are Your Classrooms Working for You?
Education has changed quickly in the age of technology. Not only are devices ever-present, but new ideas on teaching and learning seem to be produced every day. These ways of work reflect what it means...
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Improving Student Health by Design
Obesity is an epidemic among the nation’s schoolchildren. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 13 million children between the ages of 2-19 are considered obese. Where physical education used...
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Learning Happens Everywhere
Hallways, courtyards, and other common areas in a school used to be forgotten space. It wasn’t thought that they could serve any purpose other than getting students from one place to the next or giving...
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Makerspaces: Places for Hands-On Learning and Exploring
Although hands-on learning has been around for decades, a lot of difference lies between being able to touch something and being able to create something. The latter allows students to practice skills...
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Creating the Right STEAM Lab for Your School
When the nation started renewing its educational focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects, some educators felt that the approach came at the expense of art. In many...
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Versatile Cafeteria Seating Solutions
In early 2015, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Fort Worth, TX recognized that the cafeteria furniture in its schools was worn, outdated and in need of replacement. The District partnered...
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Great Spaces for Early Childhood Education
It seems that with almost every study that comes out revealing new insights into how the brain best learns, early childhood seems to be the key. Not only do we find the building blocks for future...
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L’Ouverture Elementary Brings Modern, 21st Century Learning Spaces to Students
The L’Ouverture Career Explorations and Technology Magnet School in Wichita, Kansas, recently completed a major classroom renovation project with School Specialty to outfit 18 classrooms (K-5) with...
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Illinois’ Maryville Christian School Partners with School Specialty on 21st...
For today’s educational setting, with student growth typically comes the need for new or enhanced spaces for both students and faculty, and with that, furniture and equipment to appropriately support...
View Article21st Century Education is Reality in Yorkville
Recently, Yorkville High School in Yorkville, IL, was featured in a video produced by EdTech Magazine that highlighted the school’s recent transformation into a state-of-the-art collaborative learning...
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The Career & Technical Education Renaissance
The vast majority of jobs created during the recent economic recovery require high-skilled workers. Many of these jobs continue to go unfilled because a lack of candidates. Part of the reason is a...
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The Right Classroom to Support Special Learners
Students who require support for their varying exceptionalities need furnishings that are just that – varied. Many different exceptionalities tend to be grouped together in one classroom, making...
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Designing a Cafeteria that Works for You
There is only one room in a school that brings in revenue every day – the cafeteria. Yet they are often an afterthought when designing or renovating a school. Not only can they be made into valuable,...
View ArticleAddressing the 21st Century’s Safety Concerns
Unfortunately, the news seems littered with stories of harm coming to gatherings of people. Perhaps no such gathering is more valuable than the one that happens every day in the nation’s schools. But...
View ArticleBenefits of Bean Bag Seating in Your Early Childhood Classroom
Part of helping students to enjoy learning or reading is making their first experiences fun and comfortable both mentally and physically. There are few seating options as versatile and cozy as a bean...
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