Now That We Have Flipped, Now What?

Oh boy, the lessons that we have learned this year.  It has been ONE YEAR since we flipped our entire school.  THANK YOU TECHSMITH! In that one year, we have finally realized that there is one basic underlying issue on why students do not progress and teachers do not adjust their in our classroom practices.  In most cases,  both have nothing to do with their effort.  IT'S TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just as we have flipped our classrooms, we have to flip our resources for our teachers to really move it.  More later...

CNN Article

CNN Article

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Our Story Goes International

Our story keeps growing and growing.  Here is a link in Canada's version of their Wall Street Journal.

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/primary-to-secondary/a-radical-approach-to-teaching-canadian-students-in-the-digital-age/article2251417/?service=mobile

A Great Article That Supports the Flipped School Approach.

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Week One and Two: Flipping a School

Hello everyone.  Well our entire high school has begun the flip. This week, I had the greatest moment that I ever had as a high school principal.  During the first week, I had our staff explain the flip classroom process to my students in each class. This allowed each teacher an opportunity to explain and reflect on the flipped classroom approach and it also enable us to start the dialog between my staff and students. During the second week of school, I had organized a large student assembly in which I had the opportunity to fully explain why we were changing to a flipped classroom approach.  In the assembly, when I started talking about the flipped classroom approach,  students began applauding and it ended in a STANDING OVATION!!!! I had to fight back the tears of joy. WOW! This was the greatest moment I ever had in 10 years as a principal.  I think that we have finally figured out how to set up a school who lacks funding and has at-risk transient student population base.