Imagine walking into a classroom where the ceiling stretches into a forest canopy—sunlight filtering through leaves, branches arching overhead, the entire room calm. Students relax. Teachers feel the space working with them. This is the everyday reality for schools implementing Nature In [...]
When the Ceiling Becomes a Coping Tool Most conversations about nature in the classroom focus on what students feel when they walk in — the calm, the softness, the shift in the room's energy. What Sarah Kellett noticed was something slightly [...]
The lower left video is a tour of the classroom. The lower right video is the 1st graders seeing their ceiling for the first time, "10 out of 10" and 100 out of 100". [...]
Some of the classrooms at Taft Elementary in Santa Clara, California, have one flaw in common: They don't have windows. That's true for Logan Earnest's fifth grade classroom, and he felt it was affecting his students. "Most of [...]
Look Up and Breathe: How Painted Ceiling Tiles Are Changing the Mood in One Middle School Classroom "This act of kindness is the reason I have hope. The art is wonderful and it lets me feel like I [...]
Top Charter School Places Tree Ceiling in Classroom: Meadows Arts and Technology Elementary in Thousand Oaks is recognized as one of the top 1.5% of schools in California by US News & World Report.  A tree ceiling mural of [...]
 "My students are seated on the perimeter of the classroom. I have a handful of seats in the middle of the room, directly underneath the trees. I have students asking me to sit there so they can see the trees better," [...]
Teacher Comments: A team came to install the ceiling tiles today. They're beautiful. I've attached some pictures.  My kids came back from PE and started jumping up and down with joy (literally jumping up and down, yelling "yay!") [...]
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