At the end of 2020, MooreCo published a list of lessons we'd learned from the year — things we believed would matter going forward. Looking back from 2026, most of those instincts were right. But the framing was narrow: we were writing about surviving a crisis, not about what the crisis had revealed.
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Reasons to Remake Your Space with Glass
The late Johnny Nash wrote and sung the words, "I can see clearly now. The rain is gone." With many workers and students having spent time at home, it's important to make sure the spaces they return to will feel comfortable and highly functional. If you're looking for ways to remake your space with style, high performance glass walls and boards will add a touch of sophistication, while creating improved communication and reflective brightness for everyone to enjoy.
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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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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
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All the Space Solutions You’ll Need to Keep Learning, Working, and Thriving Through COVID-19
In a truly unprecedented time brought on by COVID-19, learning continues to be different this year as communities work with ideas for how to reduce the transmission of the virus while still learning and working.
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School budgets are finite. The demands on them are not. When administrators and procurement teams are evaluating classroom redesigns, the question is never whether blended learning is worth investing in — research consistently says it is — but how to implement it in a way that delivers lasting instructional value without overextending limited funds.
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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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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.
Read MoreTopics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Active Classroom, Technology, Hybrid Classroom, Thrive, Learning Styles, Educators