The Value of Hands-On Learning in 2021

New research is showing that 2020 has been a difficult year for our nation’s students. Many are falling behind due to problems with access to remote learning and experts are saying it may cause devastating repercussions. At MooreCo, we’ve been dedicated to following the needs of students and teachers to create ideal learning environments for over 35 years. With that goal in mind, we held our second webinar, Thrive Together: Creating the Classrooms of Tomorrow, in late October. We’ve been continuing to highlight what expert presenters offered in terms of research and solutions for how to keep kids learning through the pandemic and beyond. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the value of hands-on learning and STEM education, and how we can help students to keep learning through difficult circumstances.

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Topics: Collaboration, Active Classroom, Learn from Home, Technology, Covid-19, Back-To-School, Learning From Home, remote, hybrid, quick ship, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Top 10 Things Teachers Want in Their Classrooms

Do you ever wonder how teachers would design the classroom of their dreams, if given the opportunity? We did! That’s why we interviewed gifted, passionate teachers to ask what’s on their wish list. We took their answers to educational designers Sylvia Kowalk and Robin Randall of Legat Architects so they could work their magic and render the dream classrooms. Using the Compass line by MooreCo, Sylvia and Robin created ideal STEM spaces and displayed their render-to-reality presentation during the fourth session of Thrive Together: Creating the Classrooms of Tomorrow webinar. Click here to watch the session!

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Topics: Insider, Collaboration, Case Studies, Design, Active Learning, Active Classroom, Designer's Corner, Covid-19, Back-To-School, Educators

Full STEAM Ahead: Prioritizing Inclusion and Discovery in Tomorrow's Classrooms

How can we help all students learn, given the events of this year? 2020 brought problems with traditional models of learning to the forefront, further widening existing learning gaps and leaving groups of students behind.

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Topics: Collaboration, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Designer's Corner, Technology, Learning From Home, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Educators

The classroom is in the middle of its most significant design evolution in decades. The combination of post-pandemic instructional realities, a deepening research base on how environment affects learning, and five years of school administrators observing what actually works has produced a design direction that's more evidence-based, more student-centered, and more holistic than anything that came before it.

 

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Topics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Designer's Corner, Working from Home, Technology, Learning From Home, Hybrid Classroom, Well-Being, Thrive, Educators

How to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
Part 1: Social-Emotional Development 

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Topics: Collaboration, Active Classroom, Covid-19, Thrive

Every teacher knows the challenge: a classroom of 25 or 30 students, each with different learning styles, different social needs, and different relationships with the material. The traditional model asks everyone to engage in the same way at the same time — and for a significant portion of students, it doesn't work well.

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Topics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Back-To-School, Thrive, Learning Styles, Educators

The hybrid classroom is no longer an emergency workaround — it's a mainstream teaching model that millions of educators use every year by choice. From K-12 schools offering flexible attendance options to universities accommodating students across time zones to corporate training programs serving distributed teams, hybrid learning has become a permanent fixture of how education works in the modern world.

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Topics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Active Classroom, Technology, Hybrid Classroom, Thrive, Learning Styles, Educators

Tech + Furniture Bundles Every School Should Have

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Topics: Collaboration, Active Learning, Active Classroom, Technology

In April 2020, when schools across the country had been closed for weeks and no one knew when they would reopen, MooreCo published a list of predictions about what classrooms would look like when students came back. Five years later, those predictions have been tested against reality — and the results are instructive.

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Topics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Hybrid Classroom, Well-Being, Thrive, Educators

Walk into a traditional classroom from 30 years ago and a 21st century classroom today, and the difference is immediate. One has rows of fixed desks all facing forward. The other has furniture that moves, surfaces that invite writing, and zones designed for different kinds of thinking. The physical difference reflects a fundamental shift in how we understand learning itself.

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Topics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Teacher's Favorites, Thrive, Learning Styles, Educators