Pilot furniture sets have been implemented into Roseville High Schools math classes to find out which one would be best for the upcoming classroom building.

“As we’re preparing for our new building to be built, part of what we have to decide is what furniture we’re going to put in there, what specific classroom furniture, what types of desks and chairs and all that.” Principal Ashley Serin said. “We were able to partner with this furniture company that allowed us to do a pilot. So, we had some math teachers that were willing to take on this pilot, and we swapped their classroom over with some new furniture, and what we’re going to do, there’s different types of furniture. They are supposed to provide flexible grouping options, easy to group, easy to move. There’s some that are whiteboards, because there’s a lot of thinking that’s done on whiteboards, there’s just a variety that are in the classrooms. What we are going to do is we are going to survey the teachers at the end of the pilot and we are going to survey the students as well to find out what they like, what they preferred, are they indifferent, so that way when we go to make this huge furniture purchase, we can have some input from our students and staff.”

“We are piloting new furniture for the new building, and since the math teachers are supposed to go into the new building, we’re kind of getting a chance to see what type of furniture we might want to purchase for the classrooms.” Math Department chair Jessica McCartney said.

“I like them. They’re really good. The chairs are really loud though, but the desks themselves are really good. I like the way they’re shaped, they’re easier to go around and stuff.” Sophomore Isa Williams said.

“I don’t really like them because they’re really noisy and the color’s weird. But they’re nice because they’re whiteboards.” Sophomore Ameena Smith said.

“Since they’re rounded, if they actually put them in a circle you could do bigger groups, but our teacher, she’s just trying to put them in rows. It hasn’t really been doing too well. They are just kind of all over the place, so I kind of feel like just keeping the straight normal desks is just easier.” Freshman Ryan Glarborg said.