How Quality PreK Classroom Furniture Can Launch Successful, Lifelong Learners
Busy minds drive busy bodies. Create a welcoming, organized environment tailored to students and their teachers. Child’s play? Hardly. Whether you call it PreK, preschool, or early ed, this is primetime for development.
Employee Spotlight – Meet Manuel Paredes
Welcome to Employee Spotlight. For this edition of our Employee Spotlight series, get to know Manuel Paredes.
How to Create a Dynamic Active Learning Environment with School Furniture
The active learning classroom is analogous to a chameleon. The physical set-up you see at 9 a.m. could look completely different within minutes – and not from chaos. The quick change-up is from teachers and students tailoring their surroundings to the active learning strategy at play.
The Power of Choice–Platinum & Clear Totes Now Available
Storage bins, boxes, totes or trays. No matter what they’re called, these compact classroom organization tools provide big solutions. So much so that decreasing visual clutter in learning spaces can actually increase learning outcomes.
Leaping into Latin America: Smith System Expands Furniture Footprint
Every day, on every continent, teachers and students are together on a learning journey. Smith System believes the opportunities to inspire both are endless, especially with innovative, insights-driven school furniture.
Furniture Overhaul Turns Special Ed Science Classroom into ‘Science Oasis’
You may not realize it, but school classroom furniture has a huge impact on how well the children in the room learn. Here’s everything you need to know
Leveraging Technology to Support Student Wellbeing
Before the pandemic struck schools, it was rare to hear “technology” and “wellbeing” in the same sentence. Now, K–12 educators are learning to leverage digital technologies to foster students’ wellbeing and inclusion throughout schools. Welcome to Part Two in our three-part blog series devoted to digital transformation trends in education. We’re aggregating top insights on
Designing Flexible Learning Spaces for Ed Tech Integration
A generation ago, a school “laptop” literally meant your lap (i.e., a convenient place to park a textbook). “Gamification” was surviving dodgeball in gym class. Not anymore. Today, the tools and terms of digital transformation in the education sector continue to redefine school curricula and design. Foremost, schools – and the furniture within them –
How Technology is Shaping the Future of Learning
There’s an undeniable digital transformation underway in K–12 education. Its scope and pace are shaping the future of learning, teaching, and the physical spaces and furniture that support them, for sure. That’s the catalyst behind this three-part blog series devoted to the tsunamic effects of the K–12 digital transformation. We’ve aggregated top insights on three
Smith System Launches Flowform® Learn Lounge
Smith System’s new Flowform™ Learn Lounge. The stylish product line offers comfortably casual furniture pieces that work in unison to also provide what’s missing in many non-traditional seating spaces – the ergonomic support and work surfaces to promote healthier, engaged learning postures.
Employee Spotlight – Meet Tracy Oakry Craver
Welcome to Employee Spotlight. For this edition of our Employee Spotlight series, get to know Tracy Oakry Craver.
Employee Spotlight – Meet George Nwoye
Welcome to Employee Spotlight. For this edition of our Employee Spotlight series, get to know George Nwoye.