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Education Resources

As we navigate what’s next, rethinking how to leverage technology and physical classroom space design in a way that elevates both to create a safe learning environment, our opportunity is to rethink learning experiences and make face-to-face connections even better than before.

As we look toward the future, learning spaces will be reinvented to enhance the benefits that face-to-face educational experiences can offer. Pedagogies and calendars will consider which activities are best online and in person, and our spaces will need to reflect those new priorities. There will be greater emphasis on safely supporting social and spontaneous learning in addition to finding new ways to enhance a scholarly atmosphere and energy in the physical environment that can’t be replicated online.

post-Covid Education Resources

Wellbeing in Education

The impact and value of physical spaces in education is being actively reassessed. How can learning environments play a more active role in successfully nurturing wellbeing? It’s time to make learning spaces more human.

Learn Better

Prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Steelcase Learning researchers used multiple methods to understand the value of blended learning and wellbeing to educational outcomes and how space can play a role to ensure an enhanced experience.

The Post-Covid Classroom

To ensure the safety of students, educators and staff, everything will look very different — from classrooms and cafeterias to playgrounds and social spaces. The coronavirus has forever changed education. Our opportunity is to leverage what we’ve learned to rethink learning experiences and make face-to-face connections even better than before.

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Featured Products

Loop Phone Booths

The Loop Phone Booth is the perfect acoustic solution for any public space. Just step inside our noise cancelling booth, sit down, and relax knowing that your conversation is not going to irritate those around you. Perfect for libraries, common areas or any high traffic public space.

Smith System Planner Table

These sophisticated tables meet the demanding needs of your Makerspace, without the pared down “shop-class” aesthetics. The adaptive urban industrial style allows for crossover application in media centers, active learning spaces, common areas or any space that encourages collaboration and social learning.

Flex Mobile Height Adjustable Desk

Everything you’d expect from a height-adjustable desk, plus it’s designed to move as quickly as you do. It’s stable, yet mobile. Push them together for collaborative work, or move it to a quiet nook for focus time.

Steelcase Elbrook Tables

With curved edges that welcome students from any side, organic surface shapes that make space for students and their belongings, and unobtrusive legs and bases, The Elbrook Table Collection lets learners move in, out, and around with ease.

3form Acoustics

3form’s absorptive products help you create environments that look and sound amazing. Diffuse or absorb sound with your own design vision ringing loud and clear.

Classroom Spaces

Steelcase Node

The Node chair is mobile and supports all the ways students learn. It’s designed for quick, easy transitions in the classroom.

Smith System Cascade Teacher Desk

The Cascade Teacher Desk provides a stable, mobile and versatile workspace and has an integrated wireway and modesty panel.

Steelcase Verb Mobile Easel

The Verb whiteboard is the foundation for collaboration, display and presentation in the classroom, perfect for active learning.

Steelcase Verb Table

Verb Flip-Top Table can be flipped, moved, stowed and rearranged simply, safely and intuitively, making transitions between modes of learning quick and seamless.

Mien Company BFF Chair

The 4-leg base mixes a traditional chair style with a contemporary shell that comes in fun and engaging colors, making it a staple in any energetic collaborative classroom environment.

Smith System Mobile Lectern

Fully welded heavy-gauge steel with laminate top, three storage shelves, retaining lip on surface, grommet holes for wires. Features 3″ dual-wheel casters (two locking) for mobility.

In Between Spaces

Orangebox Away From The Desk

Away from the desk seamlessly integrates individual spaces with larger, more collaborative working configurations, making it perfect for welcoming students to work, meet or relax along a corridor.

Smith System Flowform

Just like learning, furniture shouldn’t be forced. Flowform™ is refreshing in that way. They work individually or loosely slide together, giving students endless options to make micro-adjustments.

Steelcase B Free

B-Free leverages in-between spaces to create informal, convenient and inspiring places where teamwork comes naturally and collaboration flourishes.

Orangebox Border

Border is an innovative product that enables small collaboration areas to be created easily, anywhere, including the option of a power/data module to allow it to become an effective work area.

Mien Company Chameleon

Chameleon’s modularity allows it to divide spaces and create various interaction possibilities. Straight and curved units allow for configuration footprints to be as flexible as possible, fitting into environments regardless of curves or corners. Rearrange or add pieces as spaces grow and transform.

Mien Company Flex

Comfortable foam curved and straight benches available in multiple sizes. Featuring a non-slip material bottom that allows for units to be stacked on top of one another without sliding.

Makerspaces

Smith System Planner Makerspace Table

This versatile makerspace work table is set up to complement the use of a 3d printer. The maker table is also available without the metal apparatus bar. This makerspace workbench offers maximum strength and stability for a wide variety of uses. Add a caster pack and make your Planner table mobile.

turnstone Campfire Lounge

The Campfire collection makes it easy to create flexible, inspiring spaces. Pair things together to create collaboration zones, or pull them apart for solo work. With Campfire, the configuration options are endless.

Smith System Everything Cart

This school book cart is designed for maximum versatility, this cart offers two shelves, divided into six bins each. Rolls smoothly on soft-tread dual-wheel casters. The Everything Cart has two levels of double-face bins that can hold almost anything from books to art supplies, gym equipment and student works.

3form Divy Mobile Acoustic Markerboard

Divy Mobile is a magnetic markerboard and acoustic partition in a single, lightweight, movable package. Explore the functionality of these mobile partitions and add on-the-go design to your makerspace.

turnstone Campfire Slim Table

The perfect complement to any makerspace, Slim Table provides space to get organized, and a discreet power outlet makes it easy to stay fully charged all day. Available as standing height or seated height.

turnstone Shortcut

With a comfortable plastic sheel and a range of options, Shortcut is a true multi-purpose chair. Shortcut’s patented elbow rests let you use devices with elbows fully supported or pull close to your desk without the hassle of adjusting arms. Shortcut’s generous seat allows for easy-in, easy-out mobility to keep pace with your busy environment.

Outdoor Learning Spaces

Extremis Virus Picnic Table

The compact design is an answer to smaller spaces and makes it perfect to use in breakout spaces and any outdoor learning area. The playful character of the Virus collection really comes to life when you combine different sizes and colors: a colorful, playful composition that fits any setting. There is a Virus picnic table fit for any need.

Smith System Flowform Outdoor

Welcome to Flowform Outdoor, Smith System’s new upholstered furniture for any outdoor learning space. Soft, but durable, Flowform Outdoor pieces blend comfort with functionality. The fun, loose-fit designs provide just enough structure to keep students focused, yet still relax into nature’s lessons. Flowform Outdoor soft seating is available in 4 shapes, with 2 divider wall sizes to create barriers – when space is needed.

Blu Dot Hot Mesh

Chipper chair seeks derrières for in school learning or café canoodling. Available in nine finishes: aqua, black, green, grey green, humble red, natural yellow, simple blue, off-white and watermelon. Stackable and suitable for use indoors or out.

Extremis Bistroo

Three legs, two chairs and one tabletop: Bistroo is a warm welcome to come out more often and enjoy a wonderful afternoon outdoors in the sun.

K-12 Spaces

Smith System Planner Studio Whiteboard

The Planner Studio Whiteboard perfectly complements our Planner Studio line of tables to create a unique and creative environment for today’s learners.

Smith System Oodle

The basic oodle features three cylinder-shaped components, each 17 inches in diameter and 6.5 inches high. Educators can set them up for use individually or assist students in stacking them higher.

turnstone Campfire Paper Table

Campfire Paper Table, by Turnstone, is topped with a giant stack of paper, so you can just load up your thoughts, rip it off and start over the next day.

Mien Company PLZ Chair

Please, can a chair be any cooler than this? The perfect combination of fun and comfort for seating. Innovative shape allows three chairs to stack together for even more versatility.

Smith System Flavors

This four-position school chair allows the student to sit comfortably facing front, either side or rear. Flexing seat back provides support and allows the student to turn with less restriction.

Smith System Cascade Whiteboard & Storage

Our Cascade Storage System allows educators to organize, store and distribute learning materials. The Cascade Two-Sided Whiteboard Unit is a versatile, nomadic workhorse that replaces the traditional single-purpose whiteboard with a dual-purpose mobile whiteboard plus storage.

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Blended Learning Resources

Hybrid and Blended Learning Environments

Blended learning combines the best of face-to-face and online experiences to produce improved learning outcomes. Steelcase researchers developed four key insights into blended learning based on research conducted before and during the pandemic.

COVID-19 Accelerates Blended Learning

Educators and students have just participated in a sweeping and sudden shift in the use of technology to learn. The result — a broadening recognition that a blended learning approach can provide the opportunities and flexibility necessary for the future of education. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, blended learning was a choice. Now, it’s a necessity.

Blended Learning Ideabook

Blended learning is a teaching approach that combines online and face-to-face learning, offering a richer and more dynamic approach that pedagogically integrates teacher instruction with web-based, mobile and/or classroom technologies. It extends learning within and beyond the confines of traditional learning environments, and optimizes the spectrum of face-to-face and virtual learning experiences, as well as different types of media.

Active Learning Resources

Activating the Classroom

Physical space must support co-learning, co-creation and open discussion to fully capitalize on the benefits of active learning.

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Designing For Active Learning

How are ALCs making a positive impact on learners, teachers and educational institutions? To investigate the effects of ALCs, Steelcase Education sponsored Grand Valley State University professor Robert Talbert and architect Anat Mor-Avi to conduct a review of published research on ALCs to date.

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Reclaim Classroom Attention with Active Learning

Active learning occurs when students are engaged in activities and thinking, as opposed to listening passively to an instructor. Researchers noted fewer attention lapses during times of active learning. They also found fewer lapses in attention during a lecture that immediately followed a demonstration or after a questioned was asked, compared to lectures that preceded active learning methods.

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