Erin Klein on Classroom Design

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Erin Klein @KleinErin is an interior designer turned second-grade teacher from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her room is epic and designed to be attractive and also take into account the research on classroom design. (Read Mindshift’s Popular Article: To Foster Productivity and Creativity in Class, Ditch the Desks! which features her work.)

Erin Klein, Second Grade teacher is an interior designer turned teacher who focuses on “aesthetically pleasing brain-friendly classrooms.” If you’re redesigning your classroom, you’ll want to listen.

Erin’s buzzword is “aesthetically pleasing brain-friendly classrooms” and we should all aspire to this. Erin Klein is my go-to person to understand how we REALLY should be arranging our classrooms. (And those teachers with paper-covered walls might need to rethink their approach.)

Every elementary teacher should listen to this podcast. Elementary admins who want to improve learning and retention will want to learn the basics.

One of my favorite things said in this podcast was when Erin busted the myth that covering the wall with posters might just not be the best thing for learning, instead suggests that teachers rotate material at eye level.

Listen on iTunes. “Dressing Your Classroom for Success”
Go to the show on BAM Radio

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Website: http://www.kleinspiration.com/

Twitter: @KleinErin

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Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

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