This year more than ever, we are so thankful for the outstanding work of our education community. The pandemic is finally over, and students have completed a fu ...
How to Use Learning Styles to Set Students Up for Success
Do you consider yourself and introvert or an extrovert? Do you notice that you have preferred ways of intaking information, collaborating, and communicating?
Everything You Need to Know About Cyberbullying
It is Mental Health Awareness month, so we thought it timely to visit one of the complex mental health issues that many students face in the modern classroom (even though it doesn’t take place in the classroom).
Sensory Processing Issues in the Classroom 101
Imagine sitting outside in a quiet area when suddenly a truck drives by with its stereo blasting, then a dog runs up to you and licks your face, and then your friend comes over and punches you in the arm to say hello.
Top Interior Design Trends for the 2022 Classroom
Student engagement ranks at the top of the list as the most common pain point in education today. Motivating students and getting them interested in the subject at hand is a challenge
Lessons Learned from Navigating Fractured Supply Chains
The past two years have been unlike anything the world has ever seen. Nobody could have predicted it.While the entire human population was facing..
Why Ergonomics at Home and in the Workplace is Important
Let’s face it. As active as we would all like to be, many of us spend most of our waking hours sitting. Being sedentary is often unavoidable because…
The 3 Key Steps to Creating a Student-Centred Classroom
As we have discussed in a previous blog here on “What is a Student-Centred Classroom”, a collaborative space where students are active participants in their …
The 3 Key Steps to Creating a Learning Commons
As we have discussed in a previous blog here on “What is a Learning Commons”, or the evolution of the modern library, the next question is: how do we make a sp ...
The 3 Key Steps to Creating a Makerspace
As we have discussed in a previous blog here on “What is a Makerspace”, to allow students to learn through exploration and creation, the next question is, how ...
What is a Makerspace?
In a time when much knowledge is consumed, a Makerspace gives children the opportunity to learn through exploration and creation. The space gives students the ...
What is a Learning Commons?
The library has always been an important part of the school and learning culture. The evolution into the Learning Commons is meeting student's needs toda ...
What is a Student-Centred Classroom?
The Student-Centred Classroom is a collaborative space where students are active participants in their education. They are creating and innovating, not simply ...
Rebuilding Culture Through a Hybrid Office
Coming back to the office can be hard for employees. After nearly 16 months of wearing yoga pants with suit jackets, simple things like finding pants that s ...
The Way We Work – Hybrid Offices
Much to the surprise of many of us, working from home didn’t kill us, work got done efficiently, and despite the pandemic, people felt a sense of accomplishmen ...
Returning to Office: Four Steps to Creating Your Hybrid Office
Thinking about coming back to the office isn’t as simple as sending out and email and telling everyone to meet back at 8:00 am on Monday and then everyone come ...
Thank You Teachers and School Staff!
What a year it has been, and especially for teachers. Moving a curriculum from online to in-class back and forth, almost monthly as it seems has not been an ea ...
Our Top Five Hybrid Working Furniture Solutions for Your Office Transition.
Hybrid working has been a common trend changing the office structure over the last few years, with an exponential increased need over this past year. As we end ...
Top 5 Corporate Flexible Home Office Furniture Solutions for 2021
The past year’s events changed the way we work; our offices are beginning to look much different than they did this time last year. Corporate offices still nee ...
STUDENTS BRING THE COLOURS TO THE CLASSROOMS
Colours psychology is an increasingly higher role in the consideration of education environments. Colours choices impact the teaching and learning process and ...
The Future of Post-Secondary – Learning Alone Together
COVID-19 forced post-secondary institutions to quickly transition to online. Almost a year since the pandemic began, online learning continues to be the “new n ...
WE CAN’T WAIT TO COME TO THE OFFICE, BUT HOW?
Our ideas surrounding the workplace environment have drastically evolved since COVID-19. The workplace may no longer be a single location, but an ecosystem of ...
Top 5 Office Furniture Products of 2020
With recent events changing the way we work; our offices are likely beginning to look much different than they did at the beginning of the year. 2020 ...
Top 5 Classroom Products of 2020
2020 has been a year of some big changes, but one thing has remained constant – the need for students and children to get the full value out of their education ...
Office Furniture for Introverts & Extroverts
More and more companies nowadays have torn down walls, eliminated private offices, and replaced cubicles with open and activity-based spaces to make people m ...
Do you clean and disinfect your furniture properly?
Evidence shows that coronavirus is most likely to last on surfaces we frequently touch with our hands and it can live on surfaces from a few hours to days. Hig ...
Hybrid Work – The Future of Remote Work
Time and money saved on commuting while dealing with the global COVID-19 pandemic can’t compensate for what’s lost in team collaboration, social interactions, ...
The Benefits of Returning to the Office
Many of us have worked from home, whether we wanted to or not during this current global pandemic. You may have saved time commuting. You may have enjoyed more ...
Classroom Configurations
With less than a month, so much uncertainty remains as schools reopen or plan for the reopening of their buildings to students and educators. To ensure the safe ...
Available Government Grants for Alberta Schools
As announced in late July, the Government of Alberta has released that schools will be opening under Scenario One conditions in September 2020. With only a few ...
Setting Up a Home Office
For the foreseeable future, working between the corporate and home office is projected to be the new normal. Remote working has been a popular idea even before ...
Working From Home in Comfort
Like it or not, home offices are projected to be our sanctuary for the short term, and possibly long term, as well as healthcare officials, have expressed uncer ...
Enhancing the Online Learning Experience During School Shutdowns
With the abrupt impacts of COVID-19, entire school systems have been pushed to move academic curriculums online overnight. Alberta has undergone a fast and sudd ...
Equipping Post-Secondary Campuses for Fall Returns
With officials predicting the effects of COVID-19 to last into the early new year, post-secondary campuses know better than anyone that it’s time to accept and ...
Promoting Student Learning at Home Through Healthy Movement
With parents working remotely and students transitioning to full online learning, we’re facing a unique time in history where both parents and children are oper ...
Wellness Considerations for Working from Home
By Dr. Lauren Gant, PhD, CPE, WELL AP, Human Factors & Ergonomics Manager, Allsteel Staying healthy is on everyone's mind today. Our focus at the moment ha ...
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle While Working From Home
With more employees transitioning to remote work each day, we’re witnessing a major shift in the way Albertans work. This is a monumental change and it is the f ...
Empowering Student Online Learning During School Shutdowns
With a focus on avid migration towards online learning, getting caught up in a standardized approach can be easy. While creating a uniform system can help make ...
COVID 19 – CDI Spaces is still open for business
At CDI Spaces, our clients come first. As a partner to you and your business, we continue to closely monitor the impacts of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and we striv ...
Working from Home: Making it Work for Managers & Their Teams
Guest Post by: Eric D. Johnson, Senior Workplace Advisor, Allsteel To call the atmosphere we're all working in 'chaotic' feels a bit understated at this point. ...
Empower Special Education Students with an Inclusive Classroom Design
Creating a positive and successful learning experience for students with special needs is just as critical as that of their peers. It starts with creating a le ...
Technology & The Agile Workplace: Driving Change
Two major drivers are changing the ways that we work in the 21st century: Technological advancements and the shift towards the Agile Workplace. The Impact of T ...
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle When Working in an Office
How Health and Work Feed off Each Other Since the modern worker now spends more than eight hours a day, sitting and now even standing in the office, it only mak ...
Reducing Distractions and Disruptions at Your Workstation
As open workspace concepts replace traditional office settings, more and more businesses look for solutions to address the challenge of noise issues and disrupt ...
The Pros and Cons of Standing Desks
Depending on the audience, you will most likely get different opinions on whether or not it’s worth it to invest in a standing desk. It's a lasting fad that has ...
Maintain Focus While In An Open Concept Office
As workspace design trends skew toward open-concept office layouts, more and more companies embrace the added benefits that come along with it. A concept popula ...
How to Light Your Workspace To Reduce Eye Strain
As the modern worker spends more time in front of a screen and under dim and excessive lighting conditions, research evidence is indicating that eye strain and ...
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle with a Desk Job
The modern worker cares about their workspace - key perks might include open plan designs and unconventional breakout spots, or consciously syncing it with a he ...
How Designing with the Right Colour Can Create Equal Learning Opportunities
When it comes to designing for higher education learning environments, a well-executed colour palette can enhance the absorption of information & facilitate ...
Empower Individual Learning Styles With Student-Centered Classrooms
As our population grows larger and larger as well as younger and younger, classrooms are evolving from an assembly line of rows and columns of chairs to a dynam ...
Modern Office Design Trends
The workforce is changing hands, and a new generation of digital learners and workers are informing how modern offices reflect the individual identity and compa ...
Top Educational Classroom Design & Furniture Trends For 2019
Today’s learners are a sophisticated bunch – brought up on a diet of handheld technology, brand marketing, and the sleekest product design. Experience-driven, t ...
How Classroom Design Affects Student Performance
Because today’s young learners are a generation unlike any before them, classroom design has a massive impact on both engagement and performance. Because, as re ...
Designing a Collaborative Classroom
Is there a more necessary skill in today’s workforce than the ability to collaborate? It doesn’t appear to be so, with over 80 percent of white-collar workers c ...
The Best Activity Tables for Your Learning Environment
Furnishing a classroom isn't just about tables and chairs. As most educators are already aware, there are numerous factors to consider - each impacting a studen ...
The Importance of Choosing Quality Classroom Furniture
Education, it’s been said by many, is the foundation of the future. And what better place to invest than in the future of our children and our society? It’s a g ...
The Best Office Colors to Boost Creativity, Happiness, and Productivity
Did you know that a spoonful of your favorite dessert could taste better (or worse) depending on the color of the dish it’s served in. Amazing, right?
Seven Things to Consider Before Buying School Furniture
There's a Chinese proverb, which says, "Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time." This aphorism is likely more tru ...
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