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  • Midland Lee High School
  • Midland, TX
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Every day I stand before over a hundred pairs of eyes soaking in stories, language, grammar, and all the skills that go with learning language arts. And every day I have to remind myself that these people, these bodies which are taller and broader than mine, are still children. They are high school football players and cheerleaders, members of the National Honors Society, music students, struggling learners, and so much more. Many are twice my size, yet they squeeze uncomfortably into school desks period after period to do their work. It's not conducive to learning when students aren't comfortable. I want to make my classroom comfortable and home-like. It is, after all, where they spend most of their days. So I am moving into the flexible seating realm. Flexible seating supports three dimensions of classroom design: naturalness, stimulation, and individualization. Optimizing all of these physical characteristics in a classroom improves academic performance. The personalization of classrooms—including flexibility, or student choice within the space—improves performance simply because it gives students more control and responsibility, improves academic engagement, and undermines the typical face-forward orientation of the traditional learning environment. It is about as important as air quality, light, or temperature in boosting academic outcomes. Giving my students more seating options, and a room they will enjoy being in, will shift their focus from whether or not they will fit into a school desk, or how long they have to sit in an uncomfortable chair, to analyzing their reading and improving their writing. Help me make this a reality for my students!

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Every day I stand before over a hundred pairs of eyes soaking in stories, language, grammar, and all the skills that go with learning language arts. And every day I have to remind myself that these people, these bodies which are taller and broader than mine, are still children. They are high school football players and cheerleaders, members of the National Honors Society, music students, struggling learners, and so much more. Many are twice my size, yet they squeeze uncomfortably into school desks period after period to do their work. It's not conducive to learning when students aren't comfortable. I want to make my classroom comfortable and home-like. It is, after all, where they spend most of their days. So I am moving into the flexible seating realm. Flexible seating supports three dimensions of classroom design: naturalness, stimulation, and individualization. Optimizing all of these physical characteristics in a classroom improves academic performance. The personalization of classrooms—including flexibility, or student choice within the space—improves performance simply because it gives students more control and responsibility, improves academic engagement, and undermines the typical face-forward orientation of the traditional learning environment. It is about as important as air quality, light, or temperature in boosting academic outcomes. Giving my students more seating options, and a room they will enjoy being in, will shift their focus from whether or not they will fit into a school desk, or how long they have to sit in an uncomfortable chair, to analyzing their reading and improving their writing. Help me make this a reality for my students!

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