Each grade has a separate "pod" where 3-4 teachers are centered in four open classrooms.

Some are in open classrooms clustering around play centers or listening to taped stories.

Large-scale experiments were done in the 1970s, including team teaching and open classrooms.

"We're looking for discussion and debate, to opening up a panoply of activity, almost like the old open classroom."

She has been an educator at all levels of instruction, from an elementary open classroom through university professor.

The result is a flexible space but not a formless "open classroom."

Today's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught.

For all that the open, 1960s-style classroom has fallen out of favor, it allowed a child to find his or her own way.

The open classroom, the idea that kids can't learn sitting still.

During the 1970s the school created a student-centered curriculum with "open classroom" formats.