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Creating the Calm Classroom: 3 Design Strategies to Promote Student Well-Being

As more students struggle with anxiety and depression, schools are prioritizing mental health supports. Small improvements in the design of physical spaces in schools can make enormous differences in enhancing...

What are Schools Doing to Improve Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)?

Improving ventilation in schools is one of the most important ways to reduce the spread of COVID. Yet, half of all school districts have not moved past the IAQ planning...

Building the Kinesthetic Classroom

The Kinesthetic Classroom Supports Active and Action-Based Learning to Drive Engagement and Improve Learning

How to Specify for the Education Sector

It’s a worthy goal of all educational facility designers to imagine spaces where students and teachers work together as a team in an atmosphere where students genuinely want to learn....

How Learning Space Design Can Support Student Well-Being

There is no denying that the pandemic has taken a huge toll on students’ mental, social, and emotional well- being. This has affected their ability to focus and learn in...

Supporting DEIB in Your School via Research-Based Design Strategies

One doesn’t need to look far to find roots for learning research supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). Dating back to 1984, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) originated in...