The SBI Education Value Proposition

We Believe in Active Learning
21st Century learners need 21st-century skills: collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving. An active learning ecosystem environment that includes spatial and furniture considerations which support student success in 21st-century skill development will positively impact student outcomes.

We Offer Solutions from Quality Education Vendors
With blended solutions that support the rhythm of learning without sacrificing quality and remaining competitively priced.

We are an Experienced and Knowledgeable dealership in Providing Work and Learning Solutions
Founded in 1955, we have been a long-standing resource throughout the area ever since, offering a full range of services including Asset Management, Move Services, Furniture Care, Space Planning, Installation, Reconfiguration, and a full Finish and Fabric Resource Library.

We offer Solutions based on Scientific Research and an abundance of Resources
White Papers, Case Studies, User Stories, are just a few of the insights we use to provide the best solutions available. We also lead Test Drive Programs, Pilot Programs, and Customer Trips to National Projects and Vendors.

We are Committed to Education
We are actively involved in the Education community through mentoring and collaboration groups.

Classroom TESTDRIVE

What is our Classroom Testdrive?

How Active Learning Spaces Impact Teaching and Learning

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VS Classrooms

Smith System Classrooms

Academia Classrooms

What is our Classroom Testdrive?

How Active Learning Spaces Impact Teaching and Learning

Over the last few years, Steelcase has partnered with middle schools, high schools, and higher education institutions across North America to understand how teaching and learning is evolving – and how smarter, more active environments can help.

Together, with a cohort of over 40 diverse institutions serving thousands of students at all levels, they studied what’s possible and surfaced exciting results.

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Our Work

Skutt Catholic High School

Metropolitan Community College - Fort Omaha Campus

Literacy Center

Methodist College Active Learning Classroom

Millard North High School

Methodist College

Red Oak High School

MCC South Campus Omaha NE Nebraska active learning center community college

Metro Community College - South Campus & Active Learning Center

Bellevue University

Adams Central Elementary

Westside High - Small Auditorium

Sunset Hills Elementary

Red Oak Schools - School Library Front Desk with Tiger Media decal

Red Oak High School

UNO Criss Library

DC West Elementary School

Creighton University's Heider College of Business

Jesuit Academy

St. Roberts - Reed Family Early Learning Academy

Mercy High School - ASC

Beyond the Classroom

STEM Labs & MakerSpaces

Common Area Learning Spaces

Libraries & Media Centers

STEM Labs & MakerSpaces

Common Area Learning Spaces

Libraries & Media Centers

Methodist College

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Insights

ACTIVE LEARNING SPACES
Students prepare for a future no one can predict and jobs that, in many cases, haven’t been invented yet. Educators are responding to these diverse forces with a refreshing openness, adopting active learning and embracing new technology. Yet, both students and educators must operate in learning environments built for age-old ways.

This Insights and Applications Guide by Steelcase Inc., provides the latest thinking on classroom design and learning spaces, including research, design principles and applications.

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DESIGNING FOR BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Steelcase Education researchers conducted a design research study of 16 schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States to understand the dynamics and spatial implications of technology-empowered learning.

Six spatial insights emerged for blended learning environments. These include designing for flexibility, the loosening of spatial boundries and increased need to support video capture and streaming, and continued use of analog and digital tools for effective learning.

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education case study

Clintondale High School used flipped learning to improve student outcomes. They worked with Steelcase as they transformed a classroom into an active learning space with Verb tables, Node chairs, and more.

STUDY PROVES CLASSROOM DESIGN AFFECTS STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
New data from ongoing Steelcase Education post-occupancy evaluations studies show that classrooms designed for active learning have a significant effect on student engagement.
Comparisons between old and new classrooms were statistically significant on all 12 factors measured for both instructors and learners. The Steelcase survey tool can now be used to reliably measure the impact of engagement in learning environments.
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education case study

The University of Florida developed two active learning spaces designed to foster communication, collaboration and problem solving. Their solutions were a media:scape LearnLab and the AHA! colab.
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What Will Social Distancing Classrooms Look Like?

In the midst of a global pandemic, organizations are already thinking about how we use space to avoid the spread of infectious disease, especially in learning environments.

Solutions

Node Classroom

SUPPORTING THE MANY MODES OF LEARNING
Educators are often faced with a tough choice: promote active learning or fit as many students as possible into a classroom without much flexibility. Until now.

The Node chair is mobile and flexible. It’s designed for quick transitions between room configurations. With Node, a classroom can flex from lecture mode to groups, and back again without interruption. Node can take passive space and make it active, supporting active and team based learning, even when student density is important.
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Verb Classroom

TRANSFORM ANY CLASSROOM INTO AN ACTIVE LEARNING SPACE
Students and instructors need spaces that support the ways they learn. Classrooms should enhance sightlines and interaction and support seamless transitions, collaboration and information persistence.

Verb is an integrated collection of instructor stations, student tables, personal whiteboards, display and work tools.

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Classroom Technology

TECHNOLOGY MUST SUPPORT ACTIVE LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM
ēno allows instructors and students to capture and distribute lesson notes, create collaborative lessons for multiple users and project important content for discussions.
ēno adapts to any classroom, instructor and student, with multiple configurations to fit any learning space.

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media:scape LearnLab

SHARE. LEARN. COLLABORATE.
media:scape LearnLab removes the barriers to sharing information and democratizes how people access and share information. The LearnLab allows students to contribute ideas quickly and seamlessly, while the unique design removes the front of the room, allowing the instructor to teach from any location in the classroom. The triangulation of content supports multiple teaching and learning styles without disruption.

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Featured Vendors

Steelcase

Sheppard’s Business Interiors and Steelcase Education are focused on helping schools, colleges and universities create the most effective, rewarding and inspiring active learning environments to meet the evolving needs of students and educators.

Using an insight-led approach, we design solutions for the many spaces learning happens, from classrooms and libraries to in-between spaces and cafes. We have a passion for understanding how learning best takes place and how smarter, active learning spaces can help..

Smith System

Smith System is a manufacturer of innovative products that make educational environments more healthy, comfortable and inspiring for students and educators. The spirit of innovation is not confined to our products, rather it extends to the thinking, processes, and materials we use to design, manufacture and even ship them. The feeling at our Plano, Texas manufacturing facility is, we don’t just want to make the best school furniture, we want to make it the best way.

Fleetwood

Fleetwood Group was founded in 1955 based on two inspirations:

1. An innovative product idea for the education market: a line of mobile furniture
2. A desire to create a Christ-centered business in order to better support missions

A half century later we remain committed to both of these founding inspirations.

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Brody
Introducing the Brody WorkLounge. Designed to be good for your body and good for your brain.

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Thread
Thread simplifies power distribution, providing power to the devices we use and the places where we work and learn.

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Verb
Verb is an integrated collection of classroom furniture including tables, whiteboards, and instructor lecturn and desk stations designed to support a full range of teaching and learning styles.

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Node
The Node school chair is mobile and flexible. It’s designed for quick, easy transitions from one teaching mode to the next. With Node, a classroom can transition from lecture mode to learn mode and back again, without interruption.

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media:scape
media:scape integrates technology and furniture to bring people, space and information, together for greater collaboration and productivity than ever before.

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Using COVID-19 Relief Funds for Agile Furniture

Did you know that there are COVID relief funds available for purchasing learning environment furniture? Many of the manufacturers SBI works with have done extensive research into how furniture purchases become eligible under relief funding guidelines, ESSER funds for public schools, and EANS funds for private schools. Agile furniture could qualify under these four allowable use categories: providing mental and physical health services and support; addressing student learning loss, including improving distance learning engagement; improving school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission and exposure to environmental health hazards (by allowing for easy physical distancing), and addressing the unique needs of disadvantaged populations.

Learn more about stimulus funding and how SBI can help you access those funds here.

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The SBI Education Value Proposition

Classroom TESTDRIVE

What is our Classroom Testdrive?

START YOUR TESTDRIVE

Our Work

Beyond the Classroom

STEM Labs & MakerSpaces

Insights

What Will Social Distancing Classrooms Look Like?

SBI Case Studies

Solutions

Node Classroom

Featured Vendors

Steelcase

Featured Products

Using COVID-19 Relief Funds for Agile Furniture

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