The crafty teacher tells PEOPLE how she brings her colorful, creative ideas to life each year Courtesy of Yennifer Castillo Yennifer Castillo has gone viral for the creative classroom setups she ...

Published in Psychological Science ... gains than when the decorations were removed. "Young children spend a lot of time -- usually the whole day -- in the same classroom, and we have shown ...

Classroom objects appealing to only some students (e.g. too many science fiction objects in a computer science classroom) prevent students who do not identify with those objects from enrolling in ...

But a recent study by Carnegie Mellon University shows that decorations ... taught six science lessons on unfamiliar topics. Three lessons were taught in a colorfully decorated classroom, and ...

The theme for Aubry Leonard's room is "bumblebees." "This carries over from last year when they studied insects," said Leonard, third-grade teacher at PEAK School.

published May 2014 in Psychological Science, was one of the first to examine how decorations impact learning. It found that when kindergartners were taught in a highly decorated classroom ...