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BACKGROUND: To achieve sustainability, we must consider scalable improvements in student movement behavior in the classroom setting, educational priorities. Flexible learning spaces that employ student-centered pedagogy and contain a range of furniture and layout options, implemented to improve educational outcomes, may enable unintended health benefits. In this review, we summarize the evidence on the effects of flexible learning spaces on adolescent student movement behaviors and educational outcomes. METHODS: We searched 5 databases, retrieving 5 quantitative and one qualitative article mee...

Toni Sturdivant is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A&M University-Commerce. She earned a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching with a cognate in Early Childhood Education. Additionally, she has a Master’s degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education with a specialization in Child Development and earned a BA in linguistics with a minor in African and African American studies. Dr. Sturdivant is state-certified to teach early childhood through 6th grade. She has taught Pre-Kindergarten in the public school setting in an urban school district in Sa...