Stories

The Critical Role of Visual Design in K-12 Classrooms

Does the visual design and layout of a classroom hold any significance? Does it influence a student’s ability to learn? I can confidently affirm that it does, and I have...

The Classroom of the Future: Designs that Support Flexible, Mobile, and Collaborative Tech Tools

Classrooms have had to evolve quickly in the last few years to meet the changing demands placed on teaching and learning during the pandemic. As we move into a post-COVID...

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....