Peter Barrett, the lead researcher for a 2015 study on classroom design in the United Kingdom and emeritus professor at the University of Salford, warns against “silver bullet” thinking. “I strongly ...

When introducing Design Thinking, elementary school teachers often worry that younger students cannot truly engage in empathy - the first step in the process - because they lack the initial ...

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In lower elementary, anticipate that parents might want to stay in the classroom on the first day. Plan for where you’d like them to sit (have extra adult chairs around), whether you’d like ...

A crowd of the district's students and their families got an up-close tour of Early Elementary School, Wednesday, Aug. 29 after a ribbon-cutting ceremony officially marked the building's opening.

Chairs in a second grade classroom at High Tech Elementary. Smaller changes like new chairs -- some of which Babowice says she got for free -- are important to helping DPS spread this concept ...

Different architects worked on different schools with the same objective - to design classrooms that are considerate of today’s young students. At top, a new classroom at Seoul Dongdap Elementary ...