Learning Environments
Learning is enhanced by the space where it happens. Discover how to make a difference by optimizing seating arrangements, classroom decor, and even building design.
Designing Your Pre-K Classroom to Support Students
The classroom is sometimes called the ‘third teacher,’ and you can use it to help build students’ focus and independence.3 Unique, Versatile Seating Arrangements
These popular, teacher-tested desk configurations make it easier to shift between independent work, collaboration, and whole-class instruction.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.The Sensory Room: Helping Students With Autism Focus and Learn
Imagine a safe space where students with autism can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.24.3MYour content has been saved!
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Back-to-School Starter Pack
A roundup of Edutopia favorites to help you kick off the school year strong, with ideas for classroom design, family communication, community-building, routines and norms, and classroom management.8.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.When Good Research Gets Implemented Badly
As brilliant ideas move from academic journals into classrooms, many important nuances are lost.
Dos and Don’ts of Classroom Decorations
What you put on your classroom walls can affect your students’ ability to learn.
8 Proactive Classroom Management Tips
New teachers—and experienced ones too—can find ideas here on how to stop disruptive behavior before it begins.1.6MYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.11 Smart Student Desk Layouts
How classroom seating—from traditional rows to Socratic circles and L-shaped clusters—alters classroom dynamics and shapes learning outcomes.An Unconventional Seating Plan Designed to Benefit Focus and Learning
After years of search and experimentation, this teacher finally hit on a room layout that allowed for efficient shifting between whole class, small group, and independent work.
Flexible Classrooms: Research Is Scarce, But Promising
An ambitious study of 153 classrooms in the United Kingdom provides the best evidence that flexible spaces can boost academic performance.956.6kYour content has been saved!
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7 Outstanding K–8 Flexible Classrooms
K–8 educators from across the country give you a peek at their classrooms—and explain how they managed the transformations.970.2kYour content has been saved!
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Classroom Design Essentials for Educators
A collection of our popular articles and videos on budget-friendly, research-backed ways to set up your classroom—and how to keep students, spaces, and SEL in mind.224.2kYour content has been saved!
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The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020
We reviewed hundreds of educational studies in 2020 and then highlighted 10 of the most significant—covering topics from virtual learning to the reading wars and the decline of standardized tests.477.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Designing the Ideal Classroom Space
A thoughtfully designed classroom—and lesson—should always take into account the known limits of the student brain, says developmental psychologist Karrie Godwin.7 Zones Every Middle School Classroom Should Have
Setting up and organizing a classroom environment with more intention can help maximize the space for student engagement—and learning.218.2kYour content has been saved!
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