How to design a school of the future
Several years ago, Greenville County Schools in South Carolina took an innovative approach to designing a new middle school to be named for our former superintendent, Dr. Phinnize…
Flexible 21st-century classroom environments
Flexible 21st-century classroom environments
What really goes into a high-impact K-12 classroom?
Our district decided to pilot the Inspired Classroom project during the fall of 2016. Using an infusion of technology, high-impact classroom furniture, and teachers’ creativity, this initiative helps…
How flexible learning spaces improve active learning
The way classrooms are designed can have a big impact on how students learn. Here’s how school leaders can encourage more active and engaging learning.
School of One boosts individual learning
Although an innovative school model in New York City called the School of One has just started its first full year of implementation, it already has garnered national…
Solutions aim to ease ed-tech deployment
Flexibility was a key theme at the 2010 InfoComm conference in Las Vegas, where a number of companies demonstrated products intended to help schools deploy education technology more…
Dell expands its Connected Classroom solution
A new low-cost netbook whose screen can be rotated so students can read electronic texts as if they were holding a traditional book is among the new technologies…
Feds release new national ed-tech plan
The new National Education Technology Plan, released March 5, sets an ambitious agenda for using technology to transform teaching and learning, ed-tech advocates say--and a call to action…
New projectors make any wall an interactive whiteboard
In a move that could shake up the interactive whiteboard (IWB) market, two projector manufacturers have just released new products that can turn virtually any surface into an…
Report: Reinvent schools for digital age
Educators can't truly deliver 21st-century instruction in schools that reflect Industrial-Age designs, with rigid schedules, inflexible facilities, and fixed boundaries between grades, disciplines, and classrooms, according to a…
Eight key school-design recommendations
The National Summit on School Design, convened by the American Architectural Foundation and Knowledge-Works Foundation, recently brought more than 200 ... Read more