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  • Bessie Carmichael Elementary School
  • San Francisco, CA
  • 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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Nine and 10-year-old students love to move, play, and explore. In our classroom of traditional student desks and hard plastic chairs, my students revel in finding new ways to sit while learning. They want to sit on top of their desks during whole-class lessons. They want to commandeer our single stool and two rolling chairs during small group math projects. They want to crawl under the counters with their reading partners or lie across 3 chairs during independent reading. In each context and type of activity, my students learn best when they can choose how to move their bodies. Unfortunately, we often have only one available seating option during lessons: each student sitting on one chair at their one desk. Schools enforce this structure even though we know that students need to move, that students need to fidget, and that sedentary lifestyles often begin in childhood. These two standing desks will add incredible variety to our classroom, increasing student choice and supporting students with focus challenges. Two or three students at a time will be able to use a standing desk during lessons, which encourages children's autonomy over their own bodies and learning. These Safco standing desks come with a swinging foot bar, a type of silent fidgeting that doesn't distract peers. Students will also use these desks during partner and small group work, as the larger size supports up to 4 collaborating students at each desk. I have tested these particular Safco desks in other classrooms, where students loved being able to see the board from the back of the room and even teachers preferred the standing desks to their own work stations.

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Nine and 10-year-old students love to move, play, and explore. In our classroom of traditional student desks and hard plastic chairs, my students revel in finding new ways to sit while learning. They want to sit on top of their desks during whole-class lessons. They want to commandeer our single stool and two rolling chairs during small group math projects. They want to crawl under the counters with their reading partners or lie across 3 chairs during independent reading. In each context and type of activity, my students learn best when they can choose how to move their bodies. Unfortunately, we often have only one available seating option during lessons: each student sitting on one chair at their one desk. Schools enforce this structure even though we know that students need to move, that students need to fidget, and that sedentary lifestyles often begin in childhood. These two standing desks will add incredible variety to our classroom, increasing student choice and supporting students with focus challenges. Two or three students at a time will be able to use a standing desk during lessons, which encourages children's autonomy over their own bodies and learning. These Safco standing desks come with a swinging foot bar, a type of silent fidgeting that doesn't distract peers. Students will also use these desks during partner and small group work, as the larger size supports up to 4 collaborating students at each desk. I have tested these particular Safco desks in other classrooms, where students loved being able to see the board from the back of the room and even teachers preferred the standing desks to their own work stations.

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