ESSER Funds
How ESSER Funds Helped Transform Spaces
Funds availability ended on September 30, 2024
Schools were able to use COVID-19 relief (ESSER) funds for VS America agile furniture to create learning spaces that embodied dynamic flexibility, healthy ergonomics, and compassion.
By investing a fraction of the once-in-a-lifetime ESSER funding into agile furniture, they were able to revolutionize learning spaces and provide teachers and students with a powerful tool for generations to come.
Creating Agile Learning Spaces
Fostering Well-Being & Success
Boosting Teacher & Student Engagement
Sample Classroom Layouts
How a school district used ESSER funds to transform education
Before
After
VS AMERICA'S AGILE FURNITURE TIED INTO ESSER FUNDS UNDER FOUR CATEGORIES
Addressing student learning loss
Student-centered learning environments address social and emotional well-being, while affording teachers more opportunities to address learning losses.
- Social belonging through interactive peer supports
- Increase participatory relationships
- Prioritize instruction alongside development of social and emotional skills
- Promote movement through furniture to allow for breaks without affecting the rest of the class
- Facilitate various teaching and learning methodologies (cooperative learning, student-centered learning, project-based learning, among others)
Supporting mental health
Easily create welcoming, inclusive, and comfortable environments with VS furniture - giving students a feeling of belonging in the space.
- Promote completion rates and retention rates among students
- Create community through interactions and cooperative learning protocols
- Allow space appropriation and trust
- Prioritize peer-to-peer and peer-to-teacher relationships
Addressing the unique needs of disadvantaged populations
Agile spaces provide an equity of opportunity, so every single student has an opportunity to sit, stand, or learn in any way they need to.
- Inspire well-being, including security in giving your opinion, solving problems, and working through conflict
- Allow multiple informal relationships with peers, which leads to a sense of belonging
- Offer both personal and private spaces, promoting reflective behaviors
- Use activity boundaries, promoting self-regulation
- Structure daily routines through blocks of rhythmic activities to foster mental wellness
Improving facilities to reduce virus transmission
VS furniture is built with constant change in mind to support all learning environments, and it can be
rearranged to meet the need at any given moment. This ensures school leaders have the necessary
resources to address the needs of their individual schools.
- Rearrange VS' mobile furniture to expand into hallways, foyers, and gyms as needed
- Stack tables as high as 8 and chairs as high as 5 for easy cleaning of floors
For more details on the past ESSER fund allowable uses, visit the U.S. Department of Education's website.
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