Topics: Design, Human Development, Active Classroom, Hybrid Classroom, MooreCo Workplace, Teacher's Favorites, Ergonomics, Well-Being
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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How Air Quality Monitors Create Safer Environments
"Breathe easy" is a phrase we used to rely on to remind each other to relax and take a moment of peace. But few of us have been "breathing easy" since COVID-19 came to the U.S. one year ago. Since that time, we've been carefully isolating, keeping our distance from others, and wearing face coverings to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. Even as Americans are getting vaccinated, it's more important than ever to slow the spread of COVID-19 until we've reached herd immunity. But there may be an additional piece to the prevention puzzle that will help schools and business get back to breathing easier sooner.
Read MoreTopics: Insider, Healthcare, Clean Living, Covid-19, MooreCo Workplace, New Products, Well-Being
Accessing Mobility in a Remote World
Do you sometimes feel like the past year has been a blur? As we come up upon a year of dealing with COVID-19 in the United States, the days can begin to mix together. This "Groundhog’s Day" feeling has been lasting over 10 months now, and even as life begins to return to normal, it may still seem as if progress is slow. At the same time, the world continues to move quickly. Kids are still learning. Companies are still hiring, producing, and flourishing. Some days, it can be challenging to remain productive and hopeful. So how can you gain access to a feeling of movement and change in a world dominated by distance? Here are just a few ways to get moving again.
Read MoreTopics: Active Learning, Human Development, Working from Home, Learn from Home, Technology, Covid-19, Learning From Home, Hybrid Classroom, remote, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Compass, Well-Being
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.
Read MoreTopics: 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
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.
Read MoreTopics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Hybrid Classroom, Well-Being, Thrive, Educators
Walk into any well-designed classroom, office, or healthcare facility today and you'll notice something: the space itself seems to work. Furniture moves. Light is considered. Zones invite different kinds of activity. These are not accidents — they are the result of design informed by how humans grow, learn, and interact at every stage of life.
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Teacher burnout is one of the most pressing challenges facing schools today. According to a 2023 RAND Corporation study, nearly 9 in 10 teachers report feeling burned out — a rate significantly higher than other working adults. While curriculum, pay, and workload are all factors, the physical environment of a school plays a more important role than most administrators realize.
Read MoreTopics: Design, Human Development, Teacher's Favorites, Well-Being, Educators