Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom

The iCAN Model: Whittemore Park Middle School, Horry County, South Carolina

Flipped Classroom: Los Altos School District

At Garfield Elementary, kindergartners sit in a circle and discuss conflicts with parents at home and how to respond to them. “Mommy, I don’t like when you scream at me,” a five-year-old boy learns to express through role play, with help from his peers.

SuccessMaker, an adaptive digital curriculum that provides a customized learning path and scaffolded feedback based on student performance. Teachers are also trained to use ST Math (ST is short for “Spatial-Temporal”), a software program developed by the MIND Research Institute.

and perhaps most important, is to put students in situations requiring them to think for themselves.

In some schools, social and emotional learning, or SEL, has been implemented as a strategy to equip students with the emotional and psychological skills that will critically affect achievement both in and outside of the classroom. These schools, such as Garfield Elementary in Oakland, California, and Leataata Floyd Elementary in Sacramento, conside

These three characteristics of online learning are what makes it so powerful: 1) there is immediate feedback; 2) the student owns the learning; and 3) the teacher does not play the central role. Being in control of one’s learning is key to the effectiveness for students.

Project-Based Learning: Acton Academy

The abilities to keep calm under pressure and to relate well with others are crucial for productive communication and collaboration. Moreover, creativity involves taking chances, overcoming obstacles, and delaying gratification. And in order to think critically, one must undertake processes of analysis and problem solving, which can be challenging