Combating Learning Loss by Understanding Student Psychology

The last year has not been easy on American students. Learning loss caused by the pandemic has hit communities throughout the U.S., with some educators and experts fearing the long-term damage of this time spent away from in-person school. As many district leaders begin to plan for welcoming more students back to schools in person this fall, there is an urgent conversation happening for how to best help them catch up. With the passing of the American Rescue Plan, there is an opportunity to create environments where students can succeed with stimulus money allotted for American schools. But what items might help students recover from the last year?

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Topics: Insider, Case Studies, Active Classroom, Compass, Thrive

When Robin Randall and Sylvia Kowalk of Legat Architects begin a project, inspiration abounds.

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Topics: Insider, Design, Human Development, Active Classroom, Designer's Corner, Technology, Back-To-School, Teacher's Favorites, Thrive, Educators

6 Considerations for Space Design in a Post-Pandemic World

In the 1920s, the United States experienced a modern renaissance. An era of economic prosperity, burgeoning art, societal change, and scientific discoveries occurred throughout this decade. There was a boom of energy, hope, and optimism. What had happened just before this decade will resonate with many today. The global pandemic brought on by the Spanish Flu killed over 600,000 Americans. It was a time of sadness, fear, and trial. But what followed was a time we still think of as a new era.

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Topics: Insider, Design, Human Development, Active Classroom, Designer's Corner, MooreCo Workplace, Ergonomics, Thrive

What the 2021 Winter Storm Revealed About Texans

When 4th Grade Teacher Elizabeth Smith of Austin's power went out late Sunday night, she didn't imagine she'd be spending the next 5 days freezing in her home with her family. But a polar vortex brought a cozy Valentine's Day to a grinding halt, affecting families all over the middle and southern areas of the United States. Although Texas bore the brunt of the worst due to power and water loss, the state is now working to regain its footing after a year of a pandemic and now a natural disaster with deadly consequences. 

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Topics: Well-Being, Thrive

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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Topics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Covid-19, Learning From Home, Hybrid Classroom, Well-Being, Thrive, Mental Health, Learning Styles, 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

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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Topics: Design, Active Learning, Active Classroom, Technology, Back-To-School, Hybrid Classroom, Affordability, Thrive, Educators

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