1. What Do Blended Classes Look Like at SSM?
Courtney Cavellier, Ed.M.
Associate Head of School for Academics
Spring 2015

2. Our Current Model
Classes have formal, required meeting times on Tuesday and Thursday.
Teachers develop online tools to keep teaching the curriculum.
Students, teachers, and rooms are "unscheduled" during the same block of time (“informal” meeting times) Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Teachers follow the same school calendar and issue common final exams when sharing teaching a course available in a non-blended format.

3. Classroom Instruction
Support for different kinds of learners
New senior (tech), ESL, talented literature students, struggling students, students who are engaged or not, students with learning differences
Range of student-teacher configurations.
For example, individualized conferencing – others have flexibility, small- groups
Maintain a high level of class discussion
forums, chats
Maintain collaborative work
online project collaboration, online project sharing, online writing portfolios
Flipped classes, video lectures

4. Our Blended Program Pilot (2012 – 2014)
Students took the majority of their courses in the blended format.
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Students in pilot engaged in work of their own design:
service learning
academic research
our weCreate Center
an internship

5. Students enrolled in at least one blended class 2014 – 2015 (10th – 12th grade)

6. Students with four or more blended classes 2014 – 2015 (10th – 12th grade)