Pens, paper, construction paper, paperclips, pins, binders, magnets, markers, crayons, glue, paint, pipe cleaners, watercolors, books, notebooks, textbooks, reference books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, laptops, printers, jackets, backpacks … and on and on and on. These are just a few of the items you’ll find in the everyday classroom. But if classroom organization is a must—and any teacher will tell you it is—where do all these “things” find a home? In the past, the answer to that question would have depended on the supplies accessible to each individual classroom and the resourcefulness of the teacher helming it.
Today, however, that’s no longer the case. As part of The HON Company’s SmartLink™ classroom furnishings collection, schools can now employ a modular storage solution that adapts to the needs of different classrooms by employing a variety of trays, shelves and cabinets that can accommodate any classroom configuration. Among its other innovative features, SmartLink’s first-of-its-kind classroom cargo spaces are mobile, available in two heights and two widths, and can include lockable doors.
“The reaction to the modular storage solution, as with the entire SmartLink collection, has been phenomenal,” says John Bann, HON’s education product business manager. “Our customers are especially excited about the ability to reconfigure all the trays and shelves to meet their needs. After all, as we heard from one teacher during our extensive voice-of-the-customer research, ‘It’s not that teachers aren’t organized; it’s that they don’t have any place to get organized.’”
Indeed, thanks to HON’s award-winning SmartLink line, that’s all changing. Whereas the classrooms of yesteryear were immobile and often in disarray, those of tomorrow will be adaptable, technologically savvy, durable and, most of all, organized according to the needs of different grade levels and curriculums. Because at the end of the day, primary school classrooms have different storage needs than middle school classrooms, which have different needs than high school classrooms. SmartLink’s modular storage solution can accommodate them all.