Blended Learning Charter Coming To Indianapolis Shifts Tactics

In a PBS Newshour special last month, several teachers said that Learning Lab practice isn’t linked closely enough to what happens in class. Bufalino says that teachers have always been encouraged to use data from online learning to inform their teaching; that said, at its most basic level, the function of the Learning Lab was for skills practice, while teachers focused teaching on what they call higher order thinking skills in class. Now, Rocketship is hoping teachers will have more control over both.

“The idea is that in this more flexible model, there will be more time for teachers to diagnose and look at the data,” Bufalino said.

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