One of the most eye-opening pieces of this project/grant was to ask our students THEIR point of view about the classroom. When there are 31 students, there's a lot of stuff, opinions, and ideas. When we started the year I wanted to get rid of desks because they seemed to be clutter-catchers, take up more space, and stagnated collaboration and mobility. However, one unseen was the organizational management of students having many materials and not a lot of space to put them. As you can see in the photos above, students move so much (which is a good thing!), their materials are always all over the room. This is the biggest physical and practical challenge in our classroom.