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Using Flexible Seating to Transform Learning

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Whether its standing desks, beanbags or low tables, flexible seating helps students feel more comfortable, engaged, and in control of their own learning. Kathie Palmieri shares research showing how flexible seating can meet physical, social, and cognitive needs of students.

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Supporting All Learners: Building an Inclusive Classroom With Universal Design for Learning

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Edtech tools can help integrate more flexible, interactive forms of direct instruction in a UDL framework to support diverse student needs. Digital manipulatives are another great way to allow students to physically interact with the learning, test hypotheses or visually represent and interact with abstract ideas.

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The Future of Work Is Flexible. Will Higher Ed Stay Stuck in the Past?

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The project sought to “reimagine” how and where employees work after the pandemic, with a focus on “understanding the long-term potential for remote and hybrid work, flexible schedules, and other types of work arrangements”—arrangements it collectively calls “flexible work.” Intermittent flexibility” isn’t going to cut it.

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School Makes Some Students Anxious. Is Physically Showing Up Necessary?

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Rather than being stuck at a desk, forced to sit still for long hours, shuffling boring papers, at culinary school he’s physically active. Virtual schooling, in those instances, allows students to keep away from physical school spaces. “The culinary part of school has given me a really big rejuvenation in life,” he says. I can feel.

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The Future of Online Learning: Benefits and Strategies for Educators

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Online learning offers unmatched flexibility and accessibility, enabling both students and educators to manage their schedules effectively and break down geographical barriers. Online learning offers flexibility and accessibility that traditional classrooms were never capable of. This flexibility extends to educators as well.

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Better Design Might Be the Next Frontier in Getting Students Back to Campus

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With that, experts say, comes a need to get off campus, collaborate with peers and design flexible spaces that will grow with both the student population and the programs that a college offers. Career readiness Colleges use physical spaces to push students toward the next steps in their careers.

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Could Play Boost Students’ Math Performance?

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Its flexible, willingly-chosen and yes, fun. Early on in a students progression, there are also a lot of items for students to physically handle, such as linking cubes or colorful plastic bears that students use to count, she says. Some research has even suggested it has the ability to reduce socioeconomic inequality.

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