Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexander High School French Teacher Rebecca Sundberg is engineering an innovative approach to classroom learning and ...

Wearing a sweatshirt over a bright blue anti-bullying shirt, Alayna Hurley sat in a chair facing Kristi Sikora- Blankenship’s desk, working quietly on a test as her classmates were strewn behind her ...

The teacher’s educational philosophy will be reflected in the layout of the classroom. Robert Sommer Ever walk into a classroom and just feel good? I certainly have. On a few recent school visits, I ...

In a recent article, I shared some ideas about how seating challenges can reveal useful data about class chemistry and individual students during the first week of school. But what next? How can we ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best classroom seating arrangements? Figuring out seating arrangements is one of the most important decisions we teachers have to make—not only about ...

THOMASVILLE — A typical classroom is lined with standard desks. Vanessa Singley’s classroom at Scott Elementary is different. No “traditional” desks. A first-year fifth grade math teacher, Singley’s ...

More teachers are using flexible, or flex, seating inside their classrooms. It allows students to learn while sitting on the floor, a yoga ball, or even on a crate at school. For the second year in a ...

One Lowcountry teacher is rethinking the traditional classroom chair to help her students focus.

A study conducted in Hungarian schools showed that seating students next to each other boosted their tendency to become friends -- both for pairs of similar students and pairs of students who differed ...