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  • North Rock Creek School
  • Shawnee, OK
  • 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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After these last years my students need to feel they have some control over something in their lives, and by providing flexible seating my students will have just that. While working individually, or in their small groups, students will be able to choose to sit in the reading area or grab a floor cushion to move to an area of their choice. These small acts of freedom and control help them to self-manage and self-direct their learning and their emotions, reduces their stress levels, and enables them to focus on learning. After multiple quarantines and months of Virtual Learning, my high school students returned to the classroom with the shortest attention spans I have seen since working in an elementary setting. We have worked hard to address this challenge. What has been the most successful academic activity to correct this issue? READING, and reading real books with real pages. We now try to set aside at least ten minutes every day for reading, and we dedicate at least one day a week to independent reading for the whole class hour. Flexible seating is key to ensuring that this independent reading time is synonymous with joy. They will sit where they will in comfort and be able to lose themselves in their book. Creating these moments of joy, these moments of escape from the outside world, is how students become lifelong readers.

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After these last years my students need to feel they have some control over something in their lives, and by providing flexible seating my students will have just that. While working individually, or in their small groups, students will be able to choose to sit in the reading area or grab a floor cushion to move to an area of their choice. These small acts of freedom and control help them to self-manage and self-direct their learning and their emotions, reduces their stress levels, and enables them to focus on learning. After multiple quarantines and months of Virtual Learning, my high school students returned to the classroom with the shortest attention spans I have seen since working in an elementary setting. We have worked hard to address this challenge. What has been the most successful academic activity to correct this issue? READING, and reading real books with real pages. We now try to set aside at least ten minutes every day for reading, and we dedicate at least one day a week to independent reading for the whole class hour. Flexible seating is key to ensuring that this independent reading time is synonymous with joy. They will sit where they will in comfort and be able to lose themselves in their book. Creating these moments of joy, these moments of escape from the outside world, is how students become lifelong readers.

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