Help me give my students flexible seating options so they can be kids hard at work and not kids with hard backs from sitting in desks all day.
$1,482 goal
This project expired on August 24, 2025.
This project expired on August 24, 2025.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
The infamous image of kids sitting at rickety desks for hours a day haunts all of us. Adults in office jobs take strain on their bodies, and we have padded chairs at least — imagine how it is for the kids! School is a dynamic place, and simple additions like offering more comfortable seating options work wonders in transforming the classroom into a true hub of growth.
I had the privilege of seeing a classroom evolve from having metal chairs everywhere to having some centers with wobbly stools and floor seats during a year of my clinical practice, and these changes in just two spaces of our classroom improved concentration, motivation, and eagerness for all.
Variety and comfort go far in helping students learn. Small group time also becomes wobbling working time, and reading in the class library while stretched out like a cat in the sun promotes literacy in unexpected ways. (Who wouldn't love curling up with a good book in any place?) Students work hard all day, so much so that sometimes it is hard for me to believe they are only six and seven years old. Nonetheless, they are still kids, and innovative furniture like these products recognize them in subtle yet meaningful ways.
Flexible seating is also a gamechanger for our students with identified and unidentified disabilities. These children learn in which settings they best work, whether it be that they can channel their energy into wobbling or they can pull up a floor chair in a quiet corner to focus. All students, regardless of able-bodied status, benefit, so having enough for all is one less way to be "bothered". Integrating multiple ways of sitting reflects our classroom's values in affirming multiple ways of working and being, absolutely necessary in being a truly inclusive educational space.
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
25 students impacted
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