The First Upholstered Cafeteria Seat
Comfort is now a choice in the cafeteria. The Comfort Plus Seat (Patent Pending) brings vinyl upholstery to a mobile table that folds, rolls, and cleans the way your staff expects.
October 1, 2026
Comfort is now a choice in the cafeteria. The Comfort Plus Seat (Patent Pending) brings vinyl upholstery to a mobile table that folds, rolls, and cleans the way your staff expects.
Through more than three decades of dedication to the best of educational building science, Learning By Design Magazine celebrates the inherent interdependence of learning and design as the fundamental basis for our experiences in life. As such, we are honored to partner with long-time advocate and industry insider VS America
Finegold Alexander Architects, a Boston-based women-owned architecture firm, is proud to announce the completion of the new Gladstone Elementary School in Cranston, Rhode Island.
When BAAM envisioned a space where students could feel seen, supported, and motivated to grow, they knew it couldn’t be achieved with traditional, static classroom furniture. They needed a partner who understood the power of environment in shaping behavior and outcomes and that’s where Smith System came in.
Whether it’s modernization, adaptive reuse project or facility refresh, the goal is the same: create a better experience without the cost and disruption of building new. Renovations promise a faster path forward. But too often, what
lies beneath the existing floor has other plans.
The built environment plays a meaningful role in learning outcomes and human experience, and it is important to consider the impact of every detail within the spaces that support students, educators and staff each day. Thoughtful design can foster focus, collaboration, creativity and wellbeing. By taking a space-specific approach to
Well-run school districts are always looking for ways to extend resources to optimize positive learning outcomes for students, educators, and communities. In the face of ever-mounting economic and social pressures, school districts, designers, and builders across the country are reconsidering the long-term maintenance implications of choices made during product specifications.
Well-run school districts are always looking for ways to extend resources to optimize positive learning outcomes for students, educators, and communities. In the face of ever-mounting economic and social pressures, school districts, designers, and builders across the country are reconsidering the long-term maintenance implications of choices made during product specifications.
Educational furniture conversations have traditionally started with products: desks, chairs, finishes, budgets and specifications. Richard Davidson, CEO of educational furnishings manufacturer Marco, believes they should start somewhere else. Before asking what belongs in a classroom, schools, designers and manufacturers should first ask what learners and educators need to experience and
The morning demolition equipment and cranes began arriving on the ridge above Marine Creek Lake, the air carried a sense of anticipation that had not been felt on the Tarrant County College Northwest Campus in decades. Students, many of whom had grown accustomed to sitting in their cars between classes,
Multisensory learning can engage multiple regions and systems of the brain simultaneously, an outcome that may enhance knowledge retention, support the transfer of learned concepts to new situations, and accelerate knowledge acquisition.
School design matters. Anyone who has attended a ribbon cutting for a new or renovated school has seen it. Students who have spent years learning in temporary or outdated classrooms suddenly walk into a bright new campus.