Reimagining the Classroom: Opportunities to Link Recent Advances in Pedagogy to Physical Settings

In principle, classrooms are intended to support the delivery of effective educational models. In practice, most existing classroom designs in the U.S. — square or rectangular units adjacent to each other and organized in rectilinear rows on one or both sides of a narrow traffic corridor — reflect a “factory model” of education that was popular at the turn of the 20 century but has long since been eclipsed by new and more progressive forms of pedagogy.