In Partnership with Education Services Center
Region 11 in Texas, Collaborative, Flexible Learning Environments
Better Prepare Students for the Future
Office Depot, Inc. (NASDAQ: ODP), a leading global provider
of office products, services, and solutions, through its
Office Depot and OfficeMax brands, today announced that its
“Committed to Learning” education experts are working with the
Education Service Center (ESC) Region 11 in north Texas to give
teachers hands-on experiences with designing classrooms with new
technology and furniture that can help individualize future-ready
learning for every child.
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The Innovation Solution Classroom at
Region 11 (Photo: Office Depot, Inc. & Wade Griffith)
The resulting solution, a collaboration between Office Depot and
ESC Region 11, is called The Innovative Solutions Classroom, a high
impact learning environment that is designed to stimulate learning
and support the changing needs of the classroom.
ESC Region 11 is one of 20 education service centers established
by the Texas State Legislature to provide professional development,
technical assistance, and management of educational programs. ESC
Region 11 serves 77 public school districts and 53 charter campuses
in a 10-county area in north central Texas, and includes 67,940
educators and more than 556,895 students. Through ESC Region 11,
Office Depot will help support the development of new classroom
design across these 130 school districts and charters.
Much has been said about the ongoing and dramatic evolution that
technology and digital learning are bringing to the classroom.
These new paths for collaborative learning have changed the core of
activity and needs for the classroom space. The unintended impact
of this shift is that teachers are now faced with the need for
flexible furniture – and a wide array of new options for the
classroom space.
Recognizing the need to provide educators with guidance, Office
Depot assembled an experienced team of education experts in Texas
that partnered with ESC Region 11 staff to create a collaborative
classroom design initiative.
“This partnership with Office Depot has been a long time
coming,” said Teela Watson, director of digital learning for ESC
Region 11. “We spent the better part of a year researching
vendors and solutions that would best meet our needs and the needs
of students and teachers in the classroom. It was definitely worth
the wait, however, because we found that Office Depot had great
solutions for utilizing the combination of ideal learning space and
technology for optimal results.”
Recent research has confirmed the profound impact the classroom
environment can have on student performance. Collaborative
classroom spaces and the classroom environment have been found to
impact up to 20 percent of the variance in student learning.1
"We understand that the pedagogical methodologies utilized
within a classroom are the keys to building an innovative physical
environment filled with furniture and technology in which a student
will grow and thrive,” said Becki Schwietz, senior director of K-12
initiatives for Office Depot, Inc. "Our hope is to continue to
partner with our K12 stakeholders to create and develop destination
environments where our students experience ‘real life’
learning."
Office Depot’s “Committed to Learning” initiative has led the
company to convene a national team of education experts and
partners across disciplines. In developing this team, the company
continues to invest in district leaders and administrators in
addition to key innovation partners. Beyond Office Depot’s internal
team, the company is forging partnerships with thought leaders in
the industry to focus on early literacy, cognitive computing,
entrepreneurship, project-based learning, and innovative learning
spaces.
Learn more about Office Depot’s education solutions here.
1 P.S.Barrett, Y. Zhang, J. Moffat and K.Kobbacy (2012). "A
holistic, multi-level analysis identifying the impact of classroom
design on pupils' learning." Building and
Environment.
About Office Depot, Inc.
Office Depot, Inc. is a leading global provider of products,
services, and solutions for every workplace – whether your
workplace is an office, home, school or car.
Office Depot, Inc. is a resource and a catalyst to help
customers work better. We are a single source for everything
customers need to be more productive, including the latest
technology, core office supplies, print and document services,
business services, facilities products, furniture, and school
essentials.
The company has annual sales of approximately $16 billion,
employs approximately 56,000 associates, and serves consumers and
businesses in 59 countries with approximately 1,800 retail stores,
award-winning e-commerce sites and a dedicated business-to-business
sales organization – all delivered through a global network of
wholly owned operations, franchisees, licensees and alliance
partners. The company operates under several banner brands
including Office Depot, OfficeMax, Grand & Toy, and Viking. The
company’s portfolio of exclusive product brands include TUL, Foray,
Brenton Studio, Ativa, WorkPro, Realspace and HighMark.
Office Depot, Inc.’s common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global
Select Market under the symbol ODP. Additional press information
can be found at: http://news.officedepot.com.
About Region 11
ESC Region 11 is one of 20 education service centers established
by the Texas State Legislature to provide professional development,
technical assistance, and management of educational programs. ESC
Region 11 serves 77 public school districts and 53 charter campuses
in a 10-county area in north central Texas, and includes 67,940
educators and more than 556,895 students.
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