by Anuk Harvey | Dec 5, 2019 | Inspiration
We’re overstocked and ready to pass on great savings to our community! We’re offering significant discounts on bundles of our beautiful, sustainably made play manipulatives for educators and learning organizations. Get in touch with our team to learn more...
by Anuk Harvey | Dec 1, 2019 | Inspiration
Join Natural Pod, VMDO Architects and ShawContract on Giving Tuesday while we each match donations up to $2500 USD for the Green Schools National Network (GSNN) to raise funds for the work and research GSNN do to further the green schools movement and accelerate...
by Anuk Harvey | Nov 25, 2019 | Inspiration
At Natural Pod, we are deeply committed to creating better, sustainable education environments. Our goal is always to honor this by producing healthy, natural, and beautiful play and learning space furniture using environmentally responsible practices and methods....
by Anuk Harvey | Nov 18, 2019 | Inspiration
Odyssey Charter Schools opened their second charter school, OCS-South, in Pasadena, California, last year. Their community presently includes transitional kindergarten through to 4th grade, with the goal of adding an additional grade each year until they include grade...
by Anuk Harvey | Nov 5, 2019 | Inspiration
For students to thrive now and in their future they need to learn how to become adaptable lifelong learners. Their future will most likely entail having multiple jobs or careers, not one employment stream for life and we need to prepare them for that. In fact they may...
by Anuk Harvey | Oct 28, 2019 | Inspiration
There’s been a lot of emphasis about creating student centered learning environments for a while now. Here we’re taking a deeper dive into how these environments are the gateway to student-led learning, why that’s important, what the intended goals are, what...
by Anuk Harvey | Oct 21, 2019 | Inspiration
Our design team and account managers are spreading their wings over the next week as they attend and present at two very different education and thought leadership conferences.First stop is the EdSpaces conference, held this year in Milwaukee, WI. This is one of the...
by Anuk Harvey | Oct 21, 2019 | Inspiration
In education we talk a lot about 21st Century learning, and this term is linked to acknowledging we are now in a new era, ‘the Innovation Age’. It seems to be generally accepted that we are now moving on from the Information Age that’s governed the last 40...
by Anuk Harvey | Oct 8, 2019 | Inspiration
We’d like to share with you this great letter we received along with the parents of the students of Oak Park Unified School District. It beautifully explains the intention and journey of Oak Park USD to create better learning environments that support their...
by Anuk Harvey | Oct 8, 2019 | Inspiration
The education community, understandably, often tends to think about learning as a product of our education system, though according to research by Dr. Joshua Eyler, learning is, in fact, evolutionary and simply part of our genetic make-up. Therefore, schools should...
by Anuk Harvey | Sep 30, 2019 | Inspiration
Did you take part in one of the climate strikes during the 20-27th September? Many of the Natural Pod team did, joining their children and marching alongside them this past Friday. It was quite an incredible day, with the impact of that action still be realized. ...
by Anuk Harvey | Sep 16, 2019 | Inspiration
As a sustainable educational furniture company that takes its environmental responsibilities very seriously, we are paying close attention to the upcoming Student Global Climate Strike happening between 20th and 27th of September.As a member of the Natural Pod team,...
by Anuk Harvey | Sep 10, 2019 | Inspiration
Thank you to all of our amazing community members who shared their inspiring photo entries in our ‘Back To School Photo Contest’. It’s been such a pleasure to see your wonderful learning environments and the creative use of Natural Pod furniture in...
by Anuk Harvey | Sep 9, 2019 | Inspiration
School is back in full swing and educators, parents and students alike are trying to adjust from the comparative freedom of the summer. For the last couple of months, the majority of kids probably weren’t even in the same place each day, hopefully, they were...
by Anuk Harvey | Aug 7, 2019 | Inspiration
Sendy, a wonderful Kindergarten teacher, is so committed to the students in her care, that over the summer she acquired a second job to personally pay for additional furniture for her classroom so that the layout could be more collaborative. That’s quite amazing...
by Anuk Harvey | Aug 6, 2019 | Inspiration
Join Natural Pod and Green Schools National Network to impact more educators – We have the opportunity to speak on the important topic of ‘SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL JUSTICE IN K-12 SCHOOLS’ at SXSWEdu (South by South West Education) but we need...
by Anuk Harvey | Jul 26, 2019 | Inspiration
You may have noticed for the last few months we’ve been sharing some interesting research by ‘MDR Education’ about how education spaces impact learning. Here we have grouped all the individual research pieces together that make up the complete...
by Anuk Harvey | Jul 22, 2019 | Inspiration
A ‘Green New Deal’ (GND) has been proposed in the US by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward Markey. It has many facets, but one of the main aims of the proposal would be to achieve net-zero greenhouse emissions by creating millions of green jobs and investing...
by Anuk Harvey | Jul 22, 2019 | Inspiration
Thankfully more and more institutions and organizations are embracing environmental responsibility and becoming advocates for sustainability. This is fantastic, and not a moment too soon. But how, as educators, can we inspire and motivate our students to take action...
by Anuk Harvey | Jul 15, 2019 | Inspiration
When educators were asked how intentionally planned school construction or renovation projects were evaluated, the largest percentage groups of note, at 30%, said they were evaluated most often for whether they attracted more students. An additional 30% of teachers...
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