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Blending with the Station Rotation Model

A Principal's Reflections

Over the course of many years, my work with Wells Elementary School provided a foundation that I pull from to this very day. Hence, the definition I created a few years back: Blended instruction is what the teacher does with technology. We need to get past the perception that this is just an "elementary" strategy.

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Why Santa Fe Broke the K-12 Model and Chose a Different Curriculum for the Middle Grades

Edsurge

We thought about elementary, middle and high school. This definitely fits into that. One of the things that we looked at when we moved to fully remote learning was a flipped classroom. Erica Wheeler EdSurge: Why did you decide to adopt MidSchoolMath's core curriculum? Students in Ms. It's a GREAT program.”

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Why I Use Edpuzzle: An Edpuzzle Review

The CoolCatTeacher

Edpuzzle solves so many of my flipped classroom problems. During the last four years of using flipped classroom techniques, I’ve come to rely on what is called the “in-flip” — I show the videos in class and interact with students to help them do in-class activities with what they’ve learned.

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Why Middle Schoolers Thrive in a Self-Paced Classroom

Edsurge

Last summer, we, along with other members of the sixth grade teaching staff at our school, adopted the Modern Classrooms model. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. Here’s how we do this in our own sixth grade classrooms.

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Educator Perspectives: Leading in a Pandemic

MIND Research Institute

Christopher Dodge is the Principal and Lead Learner of Orange Elementary Schools in Orange, Massachusetts. All Orange Elementary Schools students receive free breakfast and lunch. It definitely fit the bill. It's a pre-K–6 school district with about 500 students between two buildings. What is the biggest challenge?

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43 Apps, Games, and Websites Transforming This Year's Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Click on any of the titles below to read our full review of the tool's classroom potential. Bottom line: As a flipped-classroom or student-creation tool, this tool offers lots of opportunities for use, but teachers will need to be creative if they want students to engage.

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Unleashing the Potential of Every Child #MondayMotivation

The CoolCatTeacher

Now, Tom is a 10-year classroom veteran who is working to make his classroom (and help others) connect with kids in new ways. Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. It may be not full of earthly riches, but definitely full of meaning and full of legacy. Record your own voice over.

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