Blended Learning – a new approach
2014
Agenda
• 9:00 a.m.
What is Blended Learning? Instructional Models
• 9:20 a.m.
Stage 1: Strategy
• 9:45 a.m.
Stage 2: Alignment
• 10:20
Break
• 10:30
Stage 3: Planning
• 11:15
Stage 4 & 5: Implementation & Tracking Performance
• 12:00
Lunch
• 12:45
Title I Blended Learning Grant Application Writing
• 1:45
Debrief and Final Thoughts
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What Blended Learning is not….
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What comes to mind?
Customized Instruction
Personalization
Self Guided Learners
Teacher Effectiveness
Brick and Mortar
Home Setting
Budgetary Flexibility
Flex
Online Courses
Break out Groups
Rotation
Face to Face Support
Classroom Setting
Flipped Classroom
Hybrid
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What is Blended Learning?
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Blended Learning Models
Referenced from Clayton Christensen Institute
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Blended Learning: In-Class Station
Rotation
within specific course or subject
fixed schedule
OR
teacher’s discretion
entire class
OR
small groups
students rotate through ALL stations
classroom setting
Referenced from Clayton Christensen Institute
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Blended Learning: Lab Rotation
within specific course or subject
fixed schedule
OR
teacher’s discretion
brick and mortar campus setting
not just one classroom
Referenced from Clayton Christensen Institute
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Blended Learning: Flipped Classroom
within specific course or subject
fixed schedule
face-to-face teacher during school day
content delivery online
not just homework
Referenced from Clayton Christensen Institute
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Blended Learning: Individual Rotation
within specific course or subject
individual, customized fixed schedule
ALL rotations not required
Referenced from Clayton Christensen Institute
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Blended Learning: Flex Model
individual, customized fluid schedule
face to face on as needed basis
Referenced from Clayton Christensen Institute
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Blended Learning: Al La Carte or SelfBlended Model
one or more courses entirely online
continuing brick and mortar or off site
NOT a whole-school experience
course by course model
Referenced from Clayton Christensen Institute
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Blended Learning: Enriched Virtual Model
whole school experience
time divided: brick and mortar seldom and remotely
Referenced from Clayton Christensen Institute
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Benefits of Blended Learning
•Personalization for students
•Teacher effectiveness
•Self-Guided Learners
•Budget Flexibility
•Effective Education Equalizer
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Let’s see how it all comes together.
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Strategy
Why Blended Learning?
• A individual student’s story of why Blended Learning
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What is your why?
What are your 3 biggest challenges or goals for
your district for the next 1-2 years?
• Work with your group to identify your top three
challenges/goals and note them in your workbook on page 9
• Be prepared to share one of your goals with the group
• You have 5 minutes to complete this activity
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How does Blended Learning address these goals
and challenges?
• Take a few moments to review the questions on page 10 – would you use blended
learning to address any of these common issues?
• What do you expect to accomplish in years 1-3 of your Blended Learning Program?
• Consider the following questions:
1. How many students will you serve?
2. What criteria will determine which students you serve?
3. What grade levels will you serve?
4. What facility will you use?
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Take 10 minutes to work with your group to determine your goals for years 1-3 of
your blended learning program.
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Funding your Blended Learning Program
• Outside of the grant will additional resources be needed?
• If so, where could that additional funding come from?
• Take 2 minutes and brainstorm where additional funds could come from to
supplement the funding of your blended learning program.
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Alignment
Align to District Goals/Priorities
• Buy-in and Support are critical!!!
• Aligning your goals to district goals and priorities will increase buy-in
• Identifying key stakeholders early in the process and getting them onboard will help
with buy-in and support
• Take 5 minutes and identify the key stakeholders (in priority order) that you need to
get onboard early to back your blended learning program
• Who are some of the stakeholders you identified?
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Keys to gaining support
What are the keys for gaining support for your
blended learning program?
• Consider the following:
– Parental support
– Student interest
– Funding secured
– Teacher support (including support in contract negotiation and local unions)
– School board support
• Take 5 minutes to work in your groups to determine the keys to gaining support for
your blended learning program
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Identify your core team
Your initial team is critical in the success of your
program
• Take 2 minutes and identify the key individuals you will need to involve early in
order to make your program successful (can be individuals or roles)
• Consider the following groups:
– Technical support
– Teacher Leader
– Curriculum Director
– Administrator
– Student panel
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10 Minute Break 
Planning
Plan Your Program
How will you select your administration and team
players? Large group activity:
• What skill sets do you want administrators and key team players to have?
• Are these skills different than what you would look for in a traditional school
administrator or teacher?
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What Blended Learning Models will you
Implement?
• What model type(s) will you use?
– Rotation
– Flex
– Enriched Virtual
– A la carte
• Will students be part-time, full-time or both?
• How will you support different grade levels in your blended learning program?
• What percentage of time will students spend in school and off campus?
• How will this program fit with your master schedule? Will you offer flexible hours
outside of your master schedule?
• Take 20 minutes to work in your groups to write our the answers to these questions
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Milestones to success
What are the key milestones you need to reach to
complete your plan and implement your program?
Milestone
Date
First day of school
August 18, 2014
Student/Parent Orientation
August 17, 2014
Teacher Training
August 1, 2014
Student Recruitment
June – July, 2014
Secure Funding
April 2014
• Take 10 minutes to work with your team to determine your milestones
and timeline
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Implement & Review
Implement
This is the fun part!!
• Key items to consider when implementing your program:
– Technology
– Space and Furniture
– Curriculum and Content
– Learning Management System(s)
– Instruction and Instructional Support
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Expectations and Responsibilities
Work in your group to start brainstorming the
expectations and responsibilities for each group of
stakeholders
• You have 15 minutes to complete this activity
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Professional Development and Training
What types of professional development and
training would you offer team members?
• Take 2 minutes and brainstorm some ideas on your own
Supporting teachers in a personalized integrated
learning experience will require new instructional
strategies…how will you support your teachers in
applying the listed best practices?
• Take 5 minutes with your group to write down ideas for how you will support your
teachers in this new environment
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Review
Analyzing data requires you to look at information
with a 360 degree view…
• Whole group – Look at large trends within the majority of your students
• Small group – Focus on smaller trends and common, conspicuous characteristics
among them
• Individualized – Look at the outliers in your data and identify specific student needs
or trends
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How will you measure success?
• In your group take 15 minutes to answer the following:
1. List the two or three ways you’ll measure your program success
2. Determine the key objectives and goals you want to achieve and how you want to
measure them (refer back to page 10 & 11 to review your goals)
Key Objectives/Challenges
How to Measure Them
Increase graduation rate by
5%
Measure graduation rate
increase or decrease
Increase on-time graduation
rate
XX number of credits made
up
Increase student satisfaction
with educational experience
Pre and Post student survey
results
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Lunch!
Please return by 12:45
Grant Writing
Debrief and Final
Thoughts
Thank you!
Brian Snyder
Arizona Regional Manager
(602) 614-0226 direct
[email protected]
Matt West
Arizona Regional Manager
(602) 349-3693 direct
[email protected]
www.backbonecommunications.com