This presentation is a case study-based analysis of the opportunities and challenges of culturally responsive teaching (CRT) in blended learning. It will begin with a brief introduction to CRT and then analyze a CRT-based assignment from the Le Sallay literature program and assess how a blended learning environment can support CRT. It will then discuss limitations that arise when applying CRT in BL, and suggest areas for evolving the practice.

The Future of Learning Report 2022 showed that people are now thinking differently about education and how new ways of learning are here to stay, merging classroom learning with both blended and online solutions. There is a significant shift in attitudes, behaviors and mindsets to meet student expectations.

This session will cover the Rise of Online Learning Solutions. It will explore the flexibility that comes with technology-enhanced learning, what this means for online learners and the opportunities to learn new skills to meet industry demands.

This presentation explores several examples of the digitalization of humanities and how they mesh with online and blended methods of teaching and learning history. We will look at ways the use of digital resources and tools, such as 3D models and audio-visual materials, brings history closer to students.

In her presentation, Inna will discuss the ways L1 can be taught in middle school through the layered structure of General Linguistics, and how it can help students acquire interdisciplinary skills including essay writing, note-taking, research and reporting.

The session will look at the benefits of combining online and offline learning and explore the ways in which curriculum modules in STEM and Humanities can be rearranged to best fit the learning objectives.

Blending PBLWorks Gold Standard process and Le Sallay Academy's Hybrid Learning Environment, this session will work through an exemplary project in Humanities - History and English/Language Arts. Our entry point will be the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 8, 1941, prompting the United States' entry into World War II and subsequently the internment of people of Japanese descent in camps around the United States. The PBL exemplum employs movie clips, newsreels, a TED Talk, graphic novel, and historic documents that will result in social-emotional learning projects in creative writing, art, public speaking/debate and other student voice and choice areas. During the Q&A session, PBL options for STEM fields or other disciplines can be discussed.

In the last two decades, the world has been making fast shifts in how we access information, collect data, and use computing power. Smartphones completely altered the ability of humans to access information, and education barely blinked. But in just the last month, the release of the AI tool ChatGPT has been making huge waves in the business world. How can we shift the curriculum we teach and the way we teach it, in order to keep up with the two “technology waves"? How can education avoid staying behind the real world that is going to be a disaster for our students?

One of the primary goals of K-12 is civic education. Schools were founded to shape citizenship. They taught literacy, shared national values and an understanding of government institutions. But as studies have shown in the United States, civic literacy has been on the decline in recent decades. We are failing in our duties as teachers when students do not understand the fundamental principles of democratic institutions. But how do we engage students in the, often boring, details of government institutions? This presentation will discuss a role-play activity that requires students to create a constitution for a country that has recently overthrown a dictator. Students learn the pitfalls, compromises and details of crafting a stable government through active participation in a Constitutional Convention online. If students are the future then we have an obligation to as educators to help them flourish, maintain and protect democratic institutions. This presentation will propose one method to achieve this goal.

The conventional approach to schooling is outdated and overdue for replacement. It is primarily the product of 18th and 19th-century methods for managing the instruction of large numbers of students in an efficient and economical manner. It was not designed to best meet students' needs, interests, and motivations. Fortunately, modern technologies now enable new approaches to education that can better support students and families and empower all students to fulfill their potential.

In this session, Thomas Arnett, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, will present and lead an interactive discussion of innovative models of education and the conditions that enable them to emerge and spread.
Please register for this event in a separate form.