Thank you! We are definitely lucky to have such an amazing space to work in!

I guess you can’t tell from the picture, but everything is on wheels in here! All the shelves, all the furniture – everything. So we do have a lot of movement and flexibility. It’s almost a multi-purpose space because once you remove everything on wheels, all you have left is the columns and the walls.

I also didn’t mention this in the post, but we have a floating cart of laptops for the Hub already. What I’d like to do is get rid of the desktops that are on the round tables in the Tech Zone and leave the ones that are along the wall shelf for video editing. Those desktops are already set up as multimedia stations, which will really help.

Thanks for sharing those ideas!

@Mike,

Agreed! One thing we need to do more of, is getting student feedback on the space. We do this very informally, but it might be worthwhile doing something a little more formal so that both teachers and parents are aware of what works and what doesn’t for our students.

It looks like the tables and chairs are on wheels. That makes flexible spaces easy. What if you figured out a way to put wheels on the rest of the furniture? Then your whole area could be flexible and each teacher coming in could take 5 minutes to set up “their” area.

My other idea, when you replace the lab computers, purchase a couple higher end desktops for video/audio editing and creation. Then purchased laptops to make the flexible arrangement even more flexible.

Well done!

Keep in mind, this is an international school (not a local Thai school). Most international schools are very well resourced, similar to private schools in the US. You might have heard of Taipei American School in Taiwan, which is very similar to ISB.

@Amy,

The furniture is purchased by a supplier in Germany. They make all of our school furniture. I’m not sure which company it is though… I can say that it’s very similar to the furniture we had when I worked in Germany, so it’s probably relatively standard/easy to find.