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2.1 - The Modern Classroom Model

The document discusses the modern classroom model, which aims to improve educator effectiveness and student understanding through blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning. It does this by having educators create instructional videos to eliminate live lectures, allowing students to progress at individual paces. Research from Johns Hopkins in 2019-2020 found modern classroom educators felt much more able to meet all students' needs compared to control educators. Students also preferred modern classrooms and could teach themselves more. The course provides free resources to implement the model, with options for additional support like a Facebook group, virtual mentorship program pairing educators with experts, or school partnerships.

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2.1 - The Modern Classroom Model

The document discusses the modern classroom model, which aims to improve educator effectiveness and student understanding through blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning. It does this by having educators create instructional videos to eliminate live lectures, allowing students to progress at individual paces. Research from Johns Hopkins in 2019-2020 found modern classroom educators felt much more able to meet all students' needs compared to control educators. Students also preferred modern classrooms and could teach themselves more. The course provides free resources to implement the model, with options for additional support like a Facebook group, virtual mentorship program pairing educators with experts, or school partnerships.

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2.

1 - The Modern Classroom Model

everyone Welcome back in this video, we're gonna be talking about the modern classroom
model and the goal here is to really discover the basics of blended self paced, mastery based
learning the approach that we're going to be teaching you throughout this course. Let's go
ahead and dig in now. Before I get started, I want to tell you a little bit more about what we do
as an organization.

So we lead a movement of educators and implementing our research backed instructional


model. The goal here is to really leverage technology to both improve educator effectiveness
and learner understanding. My co founder and I both used a lot of different education
technology tools prior to implementing this model and didn't necessarily find that when we
did that, we were actually able to improve student's understanding of the content and or was
it able to improve our ability to build relationships with students. So we built this approach to
ensure that we were actually responsive to our kids needs. Now, the first phase of the model
is blended instruction and the goal here is to eliminate live lectures, whole group, direct
instruction and the way that we do that is we train educators to build their own bite size
instructional videos by doing that, you no longer have to put on a performance at the front of
the room and you're able to use your time more effectively working with students in small
groups and individually.

What that also does is it allows you to run a self paced structure in your classroom. It allows
kids to be a different spots within a unit because if I'm not delivering information live at the
front of the room every day, kids can be learning different lessons in the exact same room.

Once you're able to execute a self pay structure, we then can achieve mastery based grading
and the goal here is pretty simple. It's just the core idea that students do not move on from
lesson to lesson three because it's a different day of the week, They move on from lesson to
lesson three because they actually demonstrated understanding of lesson two.

So that's the core idea in the overview of the actual instructional approach. Now, throughout
this journey, I'm going to be referencing a variety of studies we've done at the organization to
actually measure the impacts of our model on both teachers and students. And in this
particular slide, I'm gonna reference R 2019 2020 johns Hopkins study, There's a couple data
points I want to reference on the teacher's side. First, when we asked control educators about
their capacity to effectively serve all learning levels in their room, only 44% of educators in the
control group felt like they could do this effectively, whereas 89% of our educators felt like
they could serve all learning levels in the room.

Additionally, when we asked the control group, If they were able to work closely with each of
their students during class, only 19% of control educators felt like they could do this versus
86% of our educators and what this unveiled to us is that our educators were substantially
more capable of differentiating two kids needs. Additionally, we talked to students in control
groups versus modern classrooms. What we found is students were able to teach themselves
more academic content and they were substantially more likely to want to learn in more
modern classrooms.

They were actually thirsty to be learning and blended, self-based master-based learning
environments and this again references the study that we did in John's with Johns Hopkins in
2019, which actually unveiled that there was overwhelming support for a moment for a model
from both the perspective of students and teachers. Now let's go and go ahead and talk about
how we actually support educators through this journey. So as I mentioned before, it's a free

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course that has everything you need to launch a modern classroom of your own.

But if at any point you'd like additional support, there's a few ways you can access that. First of
all, we have an awesome facebook group. Thousands of educators are in this group,
collaborating, answering each others questions. We have modern classrooms facilitators to
support as well. Additionally, you can always enroll in our virtual mentorship program. You are
currently learning in our free course or virtual mentorship program will actually pair you with
a real mentor, an expert implementer of our model, you'll submit real assignments and get
one on one feedback, annual schedule coaching calls with your mentor.

To get that support you need to launch a modern classroom and finally contact us about
school and district partnerships. Most of the educators are virtual mentorship program,
access that through a school or district partnership and that's where a school district will
enroll large numbers of educators, cohorts of educators into our program to learn our model
and get support from a mentor.

Now, finally, we're here to support educators in any school or district and anywhere in the
world. But ultimately our goal is to empower you in the ways that you need it if it's through
the free course, if it's the virtual mentorship program, if it's through a more robust
partnership, we are here to support you on this journey. Our goal is to empower you to
implement our model in the way that makes most sense for you. Good luck

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