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Should Students Sit in Rows? It depends.

By Dave Stuart Jr.

davestuartjr.com

2 min

January 19, 2023

Engagement isn’t something you can infer from smiling faces or a classroom arrangement. Engagement is what the brain attends to.

Should students sit in rows?

In my view, there are only two silly answers to this question:

No, never.
Yes, always.

The answer, as all sensible folks know, is more nuanced: it depends.

In my room, students sit in pairs, and those pairs are situated in columns and rows. This is what my Powerschool seating chart looks like.

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