My Students

In order for children to learn, they need to move. Our school is a safe and wonderful place for children but they are confined to desks that don't fit their wildly varying body sizes and don't allow them to move. We want to create a 21st century learning environment for our kids.

The students at our elementary are active and eager to learn.

They are a diverse group with different learning styles and needs but they all share the same drive to move in order to learn. Our school already has 100 standing desks in Fourth and First Grades and the students, teachers, and parents alike can't even imagine going back to industrial-feeling sitting desks. Students say they feel more focused and happier and love that they can move continuously throughout the day. Our community wants to create an all-standing school as a showcase to all schools to show that sitting too much is a public health crisis and that standing desks are a simple and elegant solution. Research shows that kids burn between 15 - 30% more calories and are significantly more focused and engaged at a standing desk.

My Project

Our students will use the standing desks all day for lessons and group work. Because the desks are outfitted with casters, they create a simple and easy way to reconfigure the classroom set up or simply move the desks aside to create a wide open space for reading, moving, performances, and group activities. The desks will increase engagement and create and environment where kids can be continuously moving in a non-disruptive way. These desks will create a movement-rich environment for our children.

Our kids are spending nearly 85% of their waking hours in sedentary positions.

Standing desks are a simple and elegant way to create a movement rich environment where children are more engaged and perform better academically, burn more calories, eliminate or minimize orthopedic problems and disease, feel happier, and just plain move more.