Dress That Desk For Success!
Whether you’re working from home or helping the kids with their distance learning or - our hearts go out to you - both! Your desk area is your best feature giving you the motivation and that much needed inspiration to carry you through your work day. We’re sharing decor strategies and expert tips to dress that desk for success!
Distance Learning Stations
Continuing our mission to formulate the ultimate solutions for working from home we could not proceed without bringing our thoughts to this page on Distance Learning. The ever-present struggles of providing an efficient Distance Learning Station is something we are seeing first-hand with our own children and their children too! We reached out to our education experts, our daughters, Carrisa Montenegro and Eileen Higgins, to see how they were approaching the madness of working while at the same time managing their children’s online schooling. Here’s what they had to say …
educators and decorators come together
The Power Of Color
This playful floor is created using a mix of VCT tiles.
Consider these tips for selecting colors to learn by:
Blue increases productivity
Red stimulates brain activity
Green is very relaxing and is associated with nature and creativity
Purple is a color that children prefer
Bold reds and oranges may increase a child’s IQ by attracting their attention to details.
The ranking of color preference internationally is blue, followed by red, green, violet, orange and yellow.
Our Kids Want To Go Back To School!
in the meantime, improvise …
Not all kids have desks. Folding tables, ping-pong tables and the like give sufficient space as shown in one of our staff’s photos of their kiddos. “We’re looking for the positives in distance learning and one of the things our kids love is that their online schooling is portable. They’ve worked out on the patio (Must have WI-FI extender) in our offices, and at their Gramma’s too”. _____C. Silva
With many thanks to our contributors!
Carrisa Montenegro is a teacher at a private prep school in Anaheim.
Eileen Higgins is a director at Almond Acres Charter Academy here locally.