It’s hard to imagine a kindergarten room without colorful drawings and posters, crafts on display and educational charts and maps covering the walls. But a recent study by Carnegie Mellon University ...
Teachers have a lot on their plates, from drafting lesson plans and grading assignments to dealing with misbehaving students and demanding administration. It seems we must add decorating to that list, ...
We all remember the teachers who went above and beyond to make their classrooms feel like a second home. They lined the walls with carefully selected decorations and educational posters, set up cozy ...
As summer vacation wound down last week, students spent their afternoons packing in as much last-minute fun as they could. But for teachers such as Heidi Meadows, those last few days in August were ...
Rachelle Pucci was drawing pictures to help her 13 first-grade students understand what they could expect in the classroom. Kerrian Blake was writing her kindergarten students’ names on a poster ...
As students age, they are inevitably bogged down by more homework, more responsibility, and more stress, yet they’re given less visually stimulating classrooms than in their early school careers. Why ...
Let’s talk about cute for a moment. How many times have you walked into a classroom, say in one of the 88,665 or so elementary schools in the United States, and gasped at the sheer quantity and ...
Maps, number lines, shapes, artwork and other materials tend to cover elementary classroom walls. However, new research from Carnegie Mellon University shows that too much of a good thing may end up ...
A Los Angeles high school classroom was revealed to be adorned with anti-police posters, Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride flags, and other left-wing symbols by a parent who sent photos to an ...
As school resumes across the Coachella Valley, students are seeing how much teachers go out of their way to make their classrooms extraordinary. They use personal time and money to shop for items, ...