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Must Have Tools to Safeguard Your Classroom
Students and staff are heading back to school this fall with a new set of guidelines. These guidelines might look different from district to district, but they all have the [...]
It’s About More Than Space
While we dive head-first back into classrooms this summer and fall, we are spending a lot of time talking about distance between students’ spaces in their classrooms. Our focus on [...]
5 Quick Additions to Tackle Fidgets
With students being asked to spend more time at their desk in order to provide adequate physical distancing, that might mean cutting PE class or recess time out of their [...]
5 Active Seats to Help with Physical Distancing
As schools work to re-open this fall, adjustments are being made to ensure health and safety of our students. While the focus lies heavily on sanitation sprays, hand sanitizer, and [...]
How Active Seating Reshaped My Classroom and My Students’ Learning Abilities
As I began my second year of teaching, I realized that I wanted to change my classroom in a pretty drastic way. Throughout college, I read many articles about flexible [...]
Social Distancing in a Kinesthetic Classroom
Recently our team was recruited to design a secondary classroom for a partner in the Midwest. Not just any classroom though—this one would have to take social distancing into account [...]
The 4-1-1 on Antimicrobial Furniture
The furniture industry is going to throw a lot of antimicrobial products at educators, office suppliers, architects- you name the industry and it will probably happen. Antimicrobial products are fantastic. [...]
The Role of Kinesthetic Furniture When Returning to Schools
Students have been sitting on their couches and running the roost of their homes since March. In the likely event that students will head back to classrooms in the fall, [...]
BrainPrimers – Activity Decks that Target Executive Function
This winter, in collaboration with Dr. Lynne Kenney, leading pediatric psychologist, author, and educator, and Mike Kuczala, educational leader and author of The Kinesthetic Classroom, Moving Minds developed BrainPrimers—a product that we hope will expand the conversation about movement and learning. With the [...]