 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Welcome everyone, special welcome to our panelists. We're so glad we could all join today. If you have a chance and haven't done so, please put your first name, last name and agency name in the chat in case there's any questions that we could follow up with you afterwards. My name is Janice Farah, program specialist with CASAS, and I'd like to also introduce my co-host today, Ms. Kay Hartley. Hi, I'm Kay Hartley, also a program specialist with CASAS, and thank you all for taking time to attend this today. Our hope is that the information shared by our panelists will be useful to you. Thank you. Let me bring up the slides that we were gonna share today. We would like to start off with a peak at the agenda, what is high flex instruction, just one slide on that, introduce our panelists and they can talk a little bit about what is the area of focus in their agency as far as how they're approaching high flex and where their attention is most directed. We'll have some questions prepared, but we've also got some time. This is a 90 minute session. So hopefully we can engage the audience a little bit and find out more about what your interests are and where you stand. There's also a poll that we've prepared. So Carla, I'm gonna just do the one quick review slide about what it means and then are you almost ready to launch the poll for everyone? Yes, give me the thumbs up and I'll launch the poll. Before we start the poll because there's a lot of different definitions of what is high flex, we're going with the more traditional definition. Brian Beatty, who was from a university, excuse me, San Francisco State University proposed an outline of what it is, which is when students are both in person and remote and the teacher is addressing them in those two, we say in the room and in the Zoom. We find that there might be reasons that it serves students well. And so from that framework, that's our next question, which is the poll. Go ahead, Carla, if you have a time, please. So the question is, is your agency currently offering high flex instruction? And if so, how many classes? And you can pick one reply, which is like one to five, six to 10, dozens, none, but we are working on it and none planned. If you have a chance, could you go ahead and answer the poll? We've got 50% participation, 60, good. Thank you so much. I appreciate your feedback. One more minute, maybe less than that. I think we're pretty much done. Carla, would you like to share the results? It looks like it's a combination between one to five, none currently, but working on it. That's helpful for us. Great, thank you. So without further ado, I would like to introduce our panelists. And I'm just gonna go down through the list. Alisa Takeuchi from Garden Grove Adult Ed. Most of you in the audience probably have met her before, but Alisa, would you like to share a little bit about your attention to high flex and what your focus is right now? Yeah, that'd be great. Thanks so much. So my name is Alisa Takeuchi. I am an ESL instructor for Garden Grove Adult Education. And it was very fortunate for us that our district opened up our schools quite early, quite earlier than most districts. And so at the beginning, we were trying to figure out how we were gonna best serve our students going from all in class to all remote, then all of a sudden, what do we do? And so we came up with the idea that we would go ahead and instruct students in class and online simultaneously on how they prefer to learn. Alisa, how many classes are you currently teaching with the high flex model? All of them, all of our, all departments, all classes have the high flex option, whether or not the students have chosen to do in class or online is up to them. Excellent. We thank you for your attendance and your participation today. Absolutely. Steve Hobbs from Merced Principal. Welcome, Steve. Thank you, good morning, everybody. I'm Steve Hobbs. I'm the principal at Merced Adult School. I'm excited to be doing high flex. I didn't realize when we started this journey that this was actually the direction of adult ed, but I think when I was talking to Kay at one point, I said, this is more of a change in mindset to begin the process because I'm one that likes to have students on campus. I thrive when I'm talking to students and I was pushing for, I want our students on campus and the students were saying, we're not coming on campus. And so I had to change my mindset a little bit and luckily our high school district that I am a part of had gotten all the equipment for us and all of our high schools to start the process. So it's been good. Laura Dutch. Hello, Laura. She's with Vallejo. Good morning. I actually like the fact that in the slides high flex has that little line under it like it's misspelled because I think it's been a learning for all of us. I didn't know a year ago what high flex was. I didn't know two years ago what zoom was, but here we are. For us, five years ago when we did WASC, we put as one of the goals in our action plan that we wanted to increase student enrollment and persistence attendance. And then we were doing fine until COVID came along and like everybody else, we had the challenges of going on to zoom. So we came back in the fall and at that point we had to figure out what would work for our students. And like Steve's, we had students who wanted to be back in person had been waiting for us to open up and be back in person. And then we had people who were saying no way. So I had to look at the staffing I had for ESL. I was able to keep people either in person or online with zoom and students could choose. But when I looked at my high school equivalency, that's how I ended up with high set or high set. That's how I ended up with high flex because I had one teacher and I knew that the students were gonna be in that same category of wanting one or the other. So we bought some L cameras and we started using high flex. And it's been a learning challenge. I actually talked with Alisa a few times about our hoot. We call them hoot and but it's going well. And right now we're getting ready for WASC accreditation next spring. And all of our data meetings we've had just a few so far but with our staff has been focused on looking at the three different modalities either in person, zoom or high flex. And we're looking at enrollment, attendance and outcomes and outcomes being cost of data gains, looking at how many people have gotten their citizenship, how many people have finished high school diploma or high set and just trying to figure out where we go from here because I think it's great to introduce these but I think the data piece of it is really important. So we know going forward how to proceed. So thank you. Thank you, Laura. And we do have a couple of slides at the very end about a new field we've added to TOPS Pro Enterprise for keeping track of high flex class instances. And I can share that with you. Thank you, Carla. She uploaded a copy of the PowerPoint for today. Now, Laura does have to kind of leave in the middle of the presentation a little bit. She has a conflict in her schedule but we appreciate you coming today, Laura. Thank you so much. Stephen France, director at Aquilinus Adult Ed. Hi, Stephen. Good morning. Hi, Kay. Welcome, everyone. Good morning and good afternoon to those of us that are attending from the East Coast. My name is Stephen France, director of Aquilinus Adult Education. For those that don't know where we're located, we are located about 30 minutes East, depending on traffic of San Francisco. We're in the Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Orinda, Maraga area. And we're a high school district and an adult ed district only. Since I've taken over as director of the adult ed program, I've always wanted to offer some form of online learning for our adult learners, being that most of my experience has been working in the high school setting. COVID kind of pushed us in that direction and forced us to do that. So like everyone when we shut down in March of 2020, strictly online and in August, we were committed as a school site to offer flexibility options, support our student learners. We call them guests, by the way. So I will be referring to them as guests. We've done a lot of evolution during this time period. And we also wanted to maintain that persistence of our guests and their learning and abilities to access the instruction. It was just kind of natural force to do it, considering that our high schools were still in online format. And we weren't necessarily having the guests ready to come to our school site in person, as we do to also have a very high risk population of guests in our adult program. That are unable to attend in person because of COVID and their health issues. So it was just a natural push. The staff just jumped in. We, and at some point we'll talk about it later, but we equipped every single classroom on this school site to have every possible tool necessary for the staff. So they're able to provide the best instructional opportunities for our guests as possible. So it was something I wanted seven years ago, COVID happened and here we are now with it all and we offer it for all of our courses. And it's up to each individual teacher with their comfort level in some of those programs. Thank you, Steve. We featured Atlantis Adult Education during the October 2021 CASIS National webinar. So if you want to get more information, Steve produced a beautiful video about their program there. Also, he's got a presentation. I think Eric, your technology person is presenting today at TDLS at 245. So rather than having this panel get into the nuts and bolts of Wi-Fi and plugs and things, we're gonna defer to that session today, later this afternoon. All right. Next up, please welcome Jennifer Varnell and Diana Batista from Keneho Valley Adult Education. Welcome, ladies. You wanna share a little bit about what your vision for high flex at your school is? Sure, I'll go first. My name is Jennifer Varnell and I'm a medical instructor at Keneho Valley Adult School. And I think I'm one of the few here who is doing the high flex way of education. So for us, we were all on campus before COVID and then we had our learning career was just like straight up and down when we went to Zoom and started Zooming that way. And for me, that was great because I was able to kind of see students at home and what their lifestyle is, dogs, cats, children, kids home from college, which I could relate to, you know? And so we were all learning this together. So there was a lot of grace and mercy when mistakes were made or something didn't work out. And through technology, we actually learned together. So when we came back on campus, I really saw the challenges that my students, I teach a certified caregiving class. And so I saw many of my students with the challenge of how do I get certified in this and still take care of my loved one at home. How can I swing that? And COVID actually was in a sense, I'm expressing for our particular group because we were able to educate and encourage and inspire the folks who want to and need to stay home with their adult mother, their adult father or their spouse who may have underlying conditions that would be compromised if they had someone come into their little bubble and they had to leave home to attend class. So when I came back, I wanted to continue that because I knew there was a percentage of our population that really desired this education, but because of the challenges that, because of their lifestyle and who they took care of would not allow them to attend regularly a two and a half hour class in the morning or the afternoon in the evening. And that's how we offer it. We offer a morning class, two mornings a week and evening class that's identical to it. So if someone missed the morning class, they can come to the evening class and offer them that flexibility. We also have a very accelerated course where people come four days a week. And that's really exciting because it keeps people on their toes and they like that. And so, and I enjoy it too. It does though, when you talk about barriers, it wasn't just a transportation barrier. Here in California, where we teach the price of gas is almost $5 a gallon. And we have international students. So we have people who are here from Bogota, Greece and they're here and they could certainly afford the price of gas, but then we have other international students who are here and they cannot afford that gas. So they come once a week to practice the skills. And that's when we kind of have the party day where we, I know we've got the lecture, we've got interaction through Zoom, but then everybody arrives and we take off practicing all the skills. It's very difficult to teach CPR first aid, how to take care of someone who's in a wheelchair, a catheter, a hospital bed. It's difficult to do that remotely. So we have to move our AVERM media camera around so that when we demonstrate our students in the classroom and our students on Zoom are looking at a particular skill. And so when they all meet together on Wednesday, it's like nurses see one, do one, teach one. So they saw it, now they have to do it and now they have to turn around and teach someone else that skill. And that's where I think that for our particular institution that really marries very well together. Yes, childcare enters into it, but it's also elder care. And so I've made that point. But it also encourages other students who feel like they were forced back to the campus too early. When they see how interactive our Zoomers are, they'll come up after class and say, look, my mother-in-law's coming to town, and we haven't seen her in a month. Is there any way I can Zoom this class tomorrow night? And I say, absolutely. I've already sent out all the links, just enter in the challenge for me. Of course, I have to be on top of my game with attendance-wise. And those people, when they miss something or maybe I'm a little head, buy a few slides or back, they already have my PowerPoints, the workbook and the regular textbook. And they can go at any time onto the webpage and see where their particular class is supposed to be, what they're supposed to be reading, what they need to be prepared for. The last thing is, within our medical department, we have a very high level of cleanliness and things need to be sanitized before every class and after every class. So yes, that's a bit of a challenge for me. But we teach the students how to sanitize their own areas. So now they know before they clock out that they have to go through and sanitize all the areas and wipe down all the equipment that they used while they were here on campus. Thanks, Jennifer. I'm gonna cut you short because we probably have a couple of more questions to answer. So I just wanna add that in our ESL program, the students also have the flexibility of being either in a strictly on-campus class or strictly in Zoom class. So that's why we're kind of marrying the two together, either strictly Zoom and then also in-person along with this option to be in-person or in Zoom with Jennifer's class. Thank you. So Diana, how many classes total do you have at Kineho that are following a High Flex instructional model? Well, the High Flex model is only in our integrated English Learner Civics Education program with Jennifer through the caregiver class. The other classes are either strictly Zoom or in-person. But what I think we're doing is baby steps up still with increasing access for the students to get back to class. Even now, we still have some students who have a lot of underlying reasons why they don't wanna come back to class. But like Jennifer said, they know they're required to come to the first day of class and each Wednesday for skills. So this way it gives them the option. I'm sure that everyone else has that same experience. We have a number of students that are on-campus, but we do have six classes that are strictly into ESL classes only. Definitely the pandemic has taken its toll on any of the hands-on kind of laboratory phlebotomy, whether it's plumbing, the CTE classes are the ones and we just applaud you, Jennifer, for finding ways to integrate remote education into what appears to be a very, very hands-on subject matter. Thank you. Any questions in the chat? I'm just gonna peek over there right now, see if there's anything we need to jump on. These are some of the discussion topics that we're gonna offer to our panelists, kind of just going in order, looking at things like challenges and equipment and collaboration and record keeping. So unless there's any questions, let me just sort of dive into the first discussion topic. And we're asking what were some of the unique challenges and the ways that you address those in your agencies? And I'm gonna kind of offer this out to the panelists if any of you have a really kind of a thought about that, that you'd like to share with the group? Well, I would say for me, the challenges were just that you have teachers at such different levels of technology skills. And so, trying to find, it's hard to find a PD that fits everyone because some of them just need to know how they switch from their camera on their computer to the camera that's in the classroom and down to, okay, we're going into breakout groups. How do I keep the people online involved in the discussion as well as keeping the people in class in discussion? So there were such just different levels of need for PD that it's really work in progress every day still. With CalPro, cost as CalPro and OTAN as the three supporting groups to the CalPro Department of Education, we've talked about what kind of PD could be created. And that is exactly, Steve, what you said, that's the challenge we've hit is that, does it have to integrate with Canvas? Does it have to integrate with additional frameworks and the different levels of expertise of the teachers? Good point. Steve, how did you approach the staff development with your teachers? I mean, did you have special training? Did you work with them individually? How did you do it? So, when the district ordered these type of, all the equipment and put them all the classrooms, there was district-wide training. And at that time, we only had a few teachers use it because we had some classes that were just strictly Zoom. But what's awesome is my staff is a very tight knit group and they are always bouncing ideas off each other. So I've literally walked into a class one week and the teacher is doing high flex, but they're using the camera on their computer. So they're teaching from behind the computer screen. And I call that teaching to the online students and not to the students in the room. And then the next week, I've gone in there and that teacher was up and teaching to the students in the room using the camera in the room. And yeah, it's just been an awesome progression. And if I see someone who's really lacking or I see where there's, hey, if you tried this, I'll give those suggestions. And I've got an IT person on campus that has done some PD individually. He'll go to their classroom and find out what exactly they need and get them to the next step. So that's been very helpful. I would echo from my experience what Steve had said is the PD aspect and the training of the teachers was paramount during this rollout. When we first did our shutdown, I would send, well, initially started daily emails out to all the staff with links to different trainings that I found that were online. My sister is also a teacher. So I would steal from her district what they were using as well. And whatever our district was offering are K-12 side of the house and whatever else I could find in addition to what the state and federal agencies were offering. Then when I met with our tech department who I hope you attend his at 245 because he's been pretty much the foundation of rolling this out. He and I would hold almost weekly drop-in sessions for all of our staff on all the tools that we had from Canvas to Zoom to Dosary which he will be talking about, I think in that presentation as well. All of the six plus different cameras and microphones that we used. And it was an opportunity for us not to necessarily tell them how to do things but for them to ask us how to use what was in their classrooms once they were exposed to it. What I've always through my short long career, I don't know, 20 plus years in education what I always despised about PDE was always being told what to do and how to do it versus being able to as the teacher when I taught English how do I use the instructional materials? Like I needed to ask those questions. So it was important for me to have that exposure and opportunity for our staff to be able to ask those questions. And then we set up training sessions in our Canvas teacher training course that we uploaded short five minute videos because if you use Canvas their training videos are nice but they're very long and they're not step by step. So I would record it and I would do step by step of how to do it based on what the teachers at those drop-ins would ask us for. And the key was it had to be short and had to be succinct and had to be targeted towards that one topic so that they could click in and see what they want. We then created a wiki page also for them to access the training videos and we did a separate one for our guests. We did a guest training from their side of how to access all the tools available to them because when they're at home they can't just necessarily go and seek out the teacher and ask for the assistance. So it was important to have those two models for all of them. And then it was important to have my office staff trained in all of these tools so that as the teachers or our guests would call our office and ask for assistance online they were also well versed in all of the accessibility. The other challenge was online textbooks. So we did partner with some textbook companies. We were able to go from the actual paper copy of textbooks which I always seven years ago wanted to go to online as well but to go back to what Jennifer was saying about having to clean everything we couldn't sit there and clean a textbook and wait 72 hours and then reissue it and tell them to drop it off and be in our space suit for them to come pick it up from us. So we work with textbook companies and what we learned through that challenge was that some of them for adult materials didn't realize that they needed to also have accessibility and keys to log into Canvas so that our guests could access it in Canvas. So it was kind of an aha moment for our textbook companies that we are so great with our K-12 side of the house they forgot about the instructional materials that we're using for me adult ed side. So we got a lot of those materials also. And then one other challenge we discovered was purchasing some materials that are not in the United States. For example, Oxford picture dictionary, we got it but because of the nuances of purchasing within our district and within the state it's difficult to purchase items that are international. So we had to figure out a way and a process to go through to purchase these online materials so that we could then be able to purchase those online items. So there were a lot of challenges but a devoted and dedicated staff were what we had and all of us have I know throughout the country and the world and we couldn't do it without just one person doing it all. We were a village. That's the collaboration among teachers that makes such a difference. Alisa, you had a lot of teachers that had to be brought into the knowledge base of High Flex. Anything you'd like to share with us about that? Oh, sure. I mean, I'm just piggybacking on what Stephen said. For us it was a very slow roll with our teachers because we also have the gamut of experienced tech teachers and then some who were thinking about retiring during the pandemic because they didn't know if they could handle the challenge and they persevered and kudos to them but now we're asking them to combine this in-class instruction with the Zoom instruction at the same time. And so when we were able to order the owls they also came in in a slow roll because we have a bunch of them sitting on a cargo ship out on the shores of Long Beach waiting to come. And so the ones that we did have we asked the teachers who would like to pilot this, the owl and use it. And so of course the more techie teachers were the ones that got them first and then now as we're still waiting they're coming in slowly. The other teachers who have kind of experienced what the first teachers were doing with it can kind of see the benefits of it and that it's not so scary and challenging. And so we have now taken upon ourselves the ones who have been using the owls to train the other teachers in a very self-paced manner. They're just taking baby steps and so that they're able to incorporate this new technology and really feel comfortable with themselves because like we learned in the pandemic we all became students very quickly on so many different tech resources that after a while the teachers were so burned out. It was just incredible because they're trying to teach the students while they're learning themselves. And so to really acknowledge the fact that some of the teachers just weren't gonna be ready to do it at the same time was fine for us. Lisa, I think you and I talked a few days ago and you mentioned something about the ability for one teacher to observe a class. Were we talking about that? That that it's helpful for a teacher. You know, you can give them it verbally you can give it to them in a video but just being in the classroom and am I on the right track with that one? I don't remember the conversation but we do do that. I mean, we have multiple opportunities all the time for teachers to come and observe if they want to or participate with somebody else standing at a kind of a mentor-mentee situation. So that again, they could be with somebody if something, the biggest challenge for a lot of the teachers during this time was troubleshooting. It wasn't the fact that we have this technology and here's how to use it but what happens when it goes wrong? You know, something doesn't work. Now they're panicking because they don't understand how to fix it. They don't know how to troubleshoot it very well. So if a teacher came into my classroom and wanted to practice using the owl or doing simultaneous instruction then if something did go wrong then I could kind of help and step in and guide them into figuring out how to fix the problem especially with the Zoom students because that was the biggest challenge during remote instruction was to troubleshoot for the students on 12 different devices. And so, you know, it's just that again, that slow roll just getting them to that comfort zone and that feeling of that, yeah, they can go ahead and help the students if need be and help themselves if they need to. Jennifer's nodding. Did you have a thought on that, Dan? Yeah, I was thinking of asking Jennifer to share how do you address the learners in the room and what challenge that you had that you shared with me about learners in the room and learners online and how did you address that? One of the questions coming up when we actually talk about students collaborating. Okay, I don't wanna jump ahead, thanks. Shall I go ahead? What I do is I turn my camera, my camera around when our Zoom students, so I say hello to them then I flip it around so they can say hello to all the students in the classroom and make kind of eye-to-eye contact. What's interesting for me is that we say in-person learning, but I don't really get to see people's faces unless they're on Zoom because of the mask mandate. So it's hard to read people's spatial expressions when they're behind their mask here in the classroom. But I typically turn it around, I set my room up so that there's a more open spot in the classroom where both our Zoom students and our in-room students can talk to each other and see each other, practice the skill, which is really good. I also have times where I'll set up teams to do, to practice verbally what's going on in the homework and then I'll just walk through the class and I go just tap me if you don't understand how to say a word or you guys disagree about the answer to the medical question. And so that's how I address those kind of challenges. Thanks. So one great note from Gould M, is that you, Pat? Saying that they did a pilot trial program, a large number of refugees who attend via Zoom at the same time as the local ESL students who attend in person. Thank you for your comments on that. Okay, our second question got into a little bit of the nuts and bolts of equipment and costs and we've touched on OWL cameras and dosary. Anybody else have anything that you feel your agency wants to share? I know we did, CASA did a survey in December of several agencies doing high flex and we said, what's the cost per classroom? And we heard numbers from just a few hundred dollars up to several thousand dollars. Anybody wanna talk about that just a little bit? We still have plenty of time. Steve. Our cost, I actually checked with fiscal before we got into this was for everything, which was the, oh, I wanna say it's an Acer camera. Oh, I can't remember the name of it now. It's not the owl, which I would like to have a discussion about the owls at some point. Is it the average media? Yes, that's it. Thank you. Between the camera, the stands, the microphones, everything was about $1,500 per classroom. I just wanted to jump in, I'm sorry, I'm just gonna jump in real quick. So myself and my director, Melissa Patterson, we are also gonna be in that 245 session with Marjorie talking about equipment. So if anybody's really interested in more so about the equipment from the teacher's perspective and then the equipment from an administrator's perspective about purchasing and costs and things like that, that will also be addressed later on today. Yeah, and I echo what Alyssa said as well. My tech guy will be in there and I'll be joining to support him. But we did purchase a lot of materials for the classrooms, but one that we discovered was most important was a microphone that we installed in the ceiling so that the guests at home could hear very clearly what our guests in the classroom were saying and the teacher. So we had to kind of go through different iterations of microphones. We purchased a Logitech camera for all the classrooms and we have two iPads for classrooms, a lot of stuff, but we had to get that microphone that could capture the size of our classrooms. So that was an important investment and you could spend anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to something that may work to thousands of dollars, which was just out of our budget. But again, I don't wanna steal the thunder from the 245 presentation, but there's a lot of tools. And if anyone is on here that's not an administrator and is interested, the key is working with your tech department and your side administrator to kind of go into the classroom and the administrator has to have an idea and your business office of what is needed to support our guests. They look at it from the dollars and cents and how much it's costing, but we also have to look at the desired outcomes and supports for our guests in person. And I love what Jennifer said, hidden behind a mask. So eyes and forehead and then online as well. And it's all about that experience. So I'm all about the experience of our guests and you can't assign a dollar value to that. You can, it's a budget. My business office hates when I say that, but you do have to invest in order for it to be successful. Right, because it's all about student engagement. And if you don't have the students there to learn, then they're not gonna be able to progress within your programs and stuff. I just wanna address something that Marin put in the chat really quick. I have done multiple staff meetings using my laptop as well as the in-classroom desktop computer. And I did experience some of the problem that Steven just talked about, where some of the teachers that were in Zoom couldn't necessarily hear what the other teachers in the room were saying. So I'm sure that would be the same case with the students. And it's sometimes a little awkward between quick because what I'm doing is presenting the presentation on the desktop computer so that the people in the room can see it, but I'm trying to use my laptop so that I'm interacting with everyone. And I also do what Jennifer does, where I turn the camera around and I project the people in the room, you know, in the Zoom room to the people that are in the classroom. So it's just, it's a matter of working through the bumps and different things. But if there's this equipment out there that makes it easier, then, you know, we should defer to the experts. So I'm gonna have to jump off in just a minute, but I'm really enjoying the presentation. Please evaluate it so it gets recorded in chair. Sorry, Jennifer, you wanted to jump in? I did. I don't want to, one of the other ways that I mentioned it to you was that for our students, a lot of our students are very tech savvy. And so I've also asked them, if you've got a particular angle on the skill and one of your student, one of your Zoom fellow students is having a challenge seeing it right now, you know, do them a favor, just like you would in the classroom if they need a highlighter or if they need something, turn your FaceTime phone on. James, turn FaceTime on your phone and use your phone to help that student see what's going on. And they actually love that because it's all of a sudden like, oh, yeah, I can help. I can help. And it's just like when I tell them, just like in nurses, you see one, you do when you teach one. So you're allowing your fellow student to see it better. So when they're here on campus on Wednesday, they can do it. So that's the collaboration that makes it a difference. And collaboration, I believe leads to persistence. It makes the students feel like a cohort and it helps them stay together as they go through the program. And if I may interject, one more thing I forgot about is the Wi-Fi arrays. We discovered that we were implementing so much technology and then our guests were bringing technology in the classroom, our teachers had it, we're all accessing it. We had to invest in making sure that we had the most robust Wi-Fi. So we installed a Wi-Fi array in every single classroom so that we weren't draining it too much and causing interference of the other classroom that may be right next door to them. So let me throw out one extra question about costs. Sometimes since the pandemic, it's been more difficult for agencies to have a certain number of students in a room. So my question to any of you is there are cost savings at all with high flex in terms of facility costs or addressing the cost of hunting for an instructor if it's possible that an instructor could be able to address, like I enjoyed the presentation yesterday from Roz Toliver and she mentioned how she is remote most of the time and how she's able to engage with her students. Any comments on those types of facility pressure or teacher shortages that this possibly has an impact on? High flex? Any thoughts on that? I haven't had any issues. There hasn't been really savings. It has made some of our classes bigger, but not to where it's unmanageable. I know Kay and I have our monthly network meetings here in Northern California and we had agencies talking about waiting lists of students and being able to include more students because of the different models of instruction when they bring in the options of high flex. Okay, anybody else? We were talking about collaboration. We didn't get to go around the room. Steve or Steven, I know Jennifer shared a little bit about collaborating with the students. Do you have any thoughts or comments? Alisa on that? Just in my walkthroughs and observations so, you know, we have our all working computers are set up to smart boards, which are now really old technology, but not only can the online learners through the cameras see the students in class because the smart board is acting as like another computer screen, the in-class students can see the students on Zoom. And so I did go into the ESL room the other day and I thought was really cool. So there was a partner readings. They were learning conversation and so one partner was reading reader one and the other partner was reading reader two. And the teacher was doing a great job of, okay, for reader two, I need somebody who's in person. For reader one, I need somebody who's online. So they were actually going through the conversation with each other. One was in class and one was at home. And I thought, wow, that's really powerful. Then if we do things like breakout groups or partner up, she either has the students online go into breakout rooms or if it's a smaller group online, she'll just have them interact or she'll put them all one breakout group so they can interact. But again, that goes back to training and who feels comfortable doing what knows the process and we're slowly getting there. But once it's, when you see it in working, it's awesome. And we're still... Are you doing that sort of thing with your, can you tell how you do that with your students? Oh, why don't we have Steven finish his thoughts? I'm sorry. No, no, that's fine. I was just gonna jump in and say, we're kind of right there with Steve. We're kind of getting over these speed bumps of training and getting our teachers comfortable with collaboration between our online and our in-person guests. But instead of investing in whiteboards, we purchased this site license for each classroom called Dosary. So each classroom has two iPads. One iPad is for the teacher to use to see the guests online and the backward facing camera is pointed towards the classrooms that they can see it. And the other iPad, it becomes a mobile whiteboard for the students using the Dosary app. So whatever is on the whiteboard in the classroom, if the teacher traditionally would write on that, they couldn't see it from the camera that we had. We have, I think three different cameras in the classroom, but it wasn't able to be seen unless you used a blue or black marker. So with Dosary, what we did is it becomes a live actual interactive whiteboard for the teachers. They can walk around the classroom, whatever they're writing on that iPad of that slide is what the guests at home and in person can see. We have teachers experimenting with it. And what's great is you can then PDF that slide and attach it to your Canvas page or whatever you use. And so that that becomes the note taking piece for that particular class. And it can be individualized for each classroom. But we also have enough iPads that we purchased throughout the years that we're having some teachers explore and experiment with giving an iPad per in-person group and then assigning quote a breakout group to that in-person group so that there's guests at home and guests in person that can interact with each other. And so they kind of compare that way. So it's kind of having three of our guests on an iPad with three in-person in interacting and working together. And then what I'm working with the teacher right now is that you assign the breakout room per table group. So table one is breakout group one and then they work together. So it's kind of a training that we're still working on. So if anyone has great ideas, I'd love to hear it. I'm so glad I let you go first, Stephen, because just hearing about, because for three months from March of, well, April of 2021, April, May and June, we opened up our school for the first time after pandemic and we opened our doors for the students and I was kind of going blind. I really just kind of envision in my head how I wanted my classroom to work and how I was going to keep this community with my online students and my in-class students. And as I was doing presentations along the way more toward the fall, I got a lot of good ideas in hindsight. I wish I would have used. And one of them was the external camera that I would have mounted on my laptop or monitor and face toward the students. I didn't do that. And so I physically took my laptop and would flip it around to show the in-class students, my Zoom students. And I didn't do it very often. And so sometimes that connection was lost. I could project my Zoom students onto my big projector so my in-class students could see the Zoom but not vice versa. My other thing, so just learning from my experiences, you should. I was using a headset because I was so used to being remote for that whole year. I was still using a headset with a microphone in my classroom because I didn't know how else to hear both my Zoom students and it didn't dawn on me which was, in hindsight, I'm kind of laughing at it now is that I really should have just plugged in some external speakers and used my computer microphone. And even though it would have been a little bit more difficult for my students in class to hear the Zoom, I wouldn't have had, I was just relaying information all the time. Oh, who's online? Hun said, and then, oh, in my class, so-and-so said, I was going back and forth and relaying this information. And I didn't see it later on until after somebody suggested to me about these other suggestions like, oh, okay, that would have been much easier for me. Now, so for three months, I made it work but it wasn't ideal. And again, it's because of time and experience and then other teachers are hearing about my experience. They're like making suggestions. And I was like, you should have told me this three months ago. And so, you know, so it was a learning curve. I don't regret anything, you know, there were some things I definitely would have changed but as far as collaboration now, because I'm so fortunate to have an OWL, it's so easy. I mean, it's seamless to have my Zoom students and my in-class students collaborate with each other. And so every morning I put the Zoom up on my projector still but, you know, every morning, my in-class students come in and we say good morning to the Zoom students. The Zoom students say good morning to the in-class students and then we do our conversations and we ask questions with each other, just like Steve and Steven was talking about just having that, because it's the Zoom students that for me right now, I have far fewer Zoom students than in-class. And so they're the ones who are kind of missing out on that classroom experience, that socialization. And so I think it's really important so I keep the Zoom students on my big whiteboard all the time so that if I ask them questions or if they're answering a question or practicing pronunciation, they're right there with my in-class students. And so that's been really, really helpful. The other panelists, do you find that same ratio of students in the room versus students in the Zoom that the number of Zoom students is usually fewer than those in class or not always? Yeah, that's my experience. I usually just have two or three on Zoom compared to the rest of the class. And the way that, I mean, we don't have the funds right now. We base our budget on what we got in 2020 which is not enough to buy the technology that we need right now to really move forward with this. And I think that's probably why I'm the only one doing it. But the way our work around is FaceTiming. So at the very beginning, I asked permission and writing, would you be willing to FaceTime a fellow student to work on pronunciation, communication, go over homework, collaboration so that they can feel more a part of the classroom. And it would help you to increase your knowledge with what it's like to Zoom in case next semester you wanna Zoom a class because of transportation issues or what have you. And that's how we do it. And we have the bandwidth here with our Wi-Fi. We have both teacher Wi-Fi and guest Wi-Fi. And then we also have a full-time IT guy who's just, I mean, he'll pop in and say, I got your email, how can I help you make it happen? And Jim's really great about that. I would just say in terms of numbers, for us it's been right along with the pandemic. So when we started to come out of the original pandemic, you would start to see four, five, six, seven, eight students in class and everybody else online. And then I remember walking into an ESL class who when this pool first started, ESL students were like, nope, I'm not coming to class, do not bring anything from school to my house. I don't want to touch anything you bring. No, stay away, I'll come back when we're ready. Then they started to come back on Zoom and we checked out every Chromebook that we could find. And then again, as the pandemic started to slow we got to get more and more in class and I walked into an ESL class one day and it was full. And I looked at the teacher and I was, wow, this is awesome. And she goes, and I have 15 more online. And I was like, holy smokes, which is the biggest classes I've been here, this is my sixth year, that's by far the biggest class we've ever had. So I walked next door, the other ESL class. Oh, she probably had 18, 19 in class and like another 10 or 12 online. And I'm going, wow, this is awesome. But then as the new variants came into play again, then it went the other direction again. Now I've got one class that's just online, nobody will come to class and the other one's about half and half, but I'm hoping at some point we get to those numbers where I'm, my mind's blown because all the students we have, but I'm hoping that's coming soon. The question in the back of my mind is what's your typical class size in high flex? Steve, the number you just threw out was like, I think I heard 12 and 18, so that's 30. Simultaneous instruction to 30 students, is that 25, 20, 30? In the back, before the pandemic we probably had anywhere from 20 to 30, 32 maybe. But for a teacher to do high flex with 20 or 30 is still doable and comfortable. I'm looking for some nods. Yeah, they actually seem to enjoy it. I mean, it's, I don't know, my joy is going into an ESL class and watching them giggle and laugh because they're mispronouncing things and they're having a good time. The teacher is giggling and laughing. Yeah, it doesn't seem to be an issue in terms of numbers. At least I've never had a complaint or told them that I'm stretching them. So I would address it if we were. Yeah, we were capping ours at a total of 30 pretty much, 15 in person and 15 online in the 15 in person because of social distancing and everyone facing in the same direction. And then online we wanted to cap it no more than 15 so that our teachers didn't have more than a 30 case load per class. And that was intentional from the administration level setting it up that way. And I, you know, I have monthly ELL department meetings and we kind of discussed it of what would be doable for them. And they're, you know, they're accustomed to having, you know, 40 packed into a classroom, whether or not 40 show up is another story, but 30 seem to be that magic number that we could, that our teachers could agree to teach in this high-flex model. Let me kind of put the question out to our audience. If you want to type in the chat, any notes you have about those classes that you do currently have at your agencies that you're offering in a high-flex model, what's your ratio of, you know, number per Zoom versus number in the room, number face-to-face versus remote? If you have a chance to put that in the chat, that would be interesting information to share with our panelists. Thank you. Yes, can I just quickly mention something? So just in the last probably month or so, well, okay, so since we opened up from this school year, our in-class population is far exceeding our online, you know, our online presence. And so I was thinking about this pretty heavily in that I think for my in-class students, because a lot of them are the new, the Zoom students that we had are mostly the continuing students from remote. A lot of them did not come back to school. They were very comfortable being online and they wanted to stay there. And then with the new students, dominantly they wanted in-class versus online. So we have very few new online students. But, and so again, my in-class students are all new students as well. And I was thinking about this about a month ago in that I have Chromebooks in my classroom now and I'm going to start teaching my students how to, my in-class students how to Zoom. Because I didn't want to be caught blindsided like I was back in March of 2020 where all my in-class students, we had no idea what Zoom was, right? Or, you know, virtual meetings, maybe some of them used FaceTime, but that was about it. But I really thought to myself, I'm going to start utilizing how to do Zoom. So in case something happens in the future, we have another outbreak or something happens and we close our schools again, at least my in-class students will have an opportunity or a chance to join me on Zoom. Because right now I don't, I had this talk with Patricia who's in the room too in regards to the teachers now have the option to let their students flip back and forth. And I don't because for me, if my students who are in my class primarily decide to join Zoom just for a day for whatever reason, I'm going to take more time out of the class trying to troubleshoot with them how to do the Zoom because they didn't go through orientation. They didn't go through any kind of pre-training. And so to me, it seemed very distracting. Other teachers may, you know, for especially higher level English classes, they may have a different perspective on that because it might be easier for them to talk them through certain, you know, areas. But for my beginning literacy class, I'm thinking I need to teach them how to do Zoom because it's going to be useful for them anyways. If they get a job and they have a Zoom meeting or, you know, a Zoom interview or things, these can only help them. But I didn't again want to be blindsided like I was two years ago with all, you know, half of my class just disappeared because they didn't know how to get online and go to school. So that was just my take. And to piggyback with Alisa saying is we are now putting that into our orientation. And I can't remember it was Kay, Janice or Barbara. We had one of our area meetings, we had somebody who is addressing the less than 12 hours of instruction students. And we think a big part of that is because those that are like online or and are wanting to do online and they don't know how to either access their email, don't know how to access their Zoom, that's becoming a barrier. So exactly what Alisa said is we're now going to make that part of orientation and do that training for all students that you're talking about. And hopefully it'll help with that number of less than 12 hours of instruction too. Clever, clever. I've heard about orientations that agencies are starting to build around the, I had, I think it was in one of the sessions yesterday, someone said, yeah, we have like a boot camp in the summer to get the students ready. Alisa, my hat's off to you as an, you know, in your role as a ESL instructor that you also take on the role of being a technology guru on that with your students. Many teachers aren't in that role. And I know one of the agencies here in Sacramento was saying that they have, you know, different levels. They brought in students that spoke multiple languages and used them in a part-time kind of a, almost like an IELCE sort of a learn as you go while you're also in learning how to be a technical support person and use their language skills to help very beginning English language learners to understand how to do Zoom. And they were able to do that in their native language. Just ideas out there, the way agencies are doing that. Yeah, any other questions? Let's see, Patrick's asking higher, actually, like one third to two thirds offline. Oh, this is going back to the question about online, the ratio between students that are offline versus students that are online. Oh, based on COVID, testing mandates from the examples. Interesting, great. Carla's got a link for that feedback in the chat. I'm going back a little bit. I think David Rosen, you had a question that was kind of out to the panelists. Do any of the panelists have in-person synchronous or asynchronous where the student can choose the mode day to day? Jennifer, answer that in the chat. Anybody else want to take a stab at that question about the flexibility to the student about attendance model? I think they kind of addressed that as they were discussing the setups and options. I know Steve Hobbs said that students have the option of choosing which they prefer to do. Am I correct, Steve, on a daily basis? And Steve Francis said it was dependent on their classroom's capacity, how many were able to be in class as opposed to how many could be online? Go ahead, Steve, I'm sorry. That was Steve Francis to talk about the capacity, yeah. Ours, they're either here or they're, I mean, that's totally up to them. They show up great if they want to be online, they stay online. Yeah, and we stress with them, and especially in our orientation, that if they are going to be, say, selecting in person and then as their enrollment option, and then they need to, for whatever reason, whether they have COVID and need to quarantine or illness, whatever, this is a loud flexibility. It's a great teaching tool for the students to use their communication skills and communicate with the teacher to let them know and the office know that they'll be switching to online for whatever day or days it's going to be. But we do ask them at orientation specifically in person or online so that we have those enrollment numbers and then do the flexibility from there. Steve Marin is asking about your orientation process and you mentioned that you have an orientation video. Would you be willing to share that with people so they could see the types of things that you have done? Yes, I have, I will get it, I will find it. Thank you. I'll send it to the two of you and then you guys can just first about once I find it. I have many files, so I have to find them. Perfect, and then she also said, and this was in relationship to your comments about the importance of having your front office staff trained if there are any tips and tricks on how you do that so that they're able to support learners when they call in and ask questions. Fortunately, and I know Kay and Janice, you know Michelle, our registrar in our front office, she is very tech savvy. And then our transition specialists that we have as part of our consortium that we've hired here for our program is also very tech savvy. But what also help with that is the devotion of 50% of our tech who is going to be presenting later today, we pay 50% of his salary so that he works 50% of his time with adult debt only. And when we roll these things out, he walks us through and helps kind of guide us through it. I love technology and can see how it helps. And then my administrative assistant also. So the four of us in the office are always available to help. And we didn't roll anything out without our trying it first. We kind of wanted to know what it was, what it looked like and we're part of those drop-in training sessions that the staff had availability to during the initial complete shutdown and lockdown. That was just kind of the expectation requirement. Thank you very much. I know, I mean, thinking back to my years in administration, I think sometimes it's not always thought by administrators to include their clerical staff in that type of staff development that makes it possible for them to do that. It's not always seen as their responsibility, but I think it's really important that it be integral, that they be integral in the training process so that they know what is going on. And some of it came from them specifically because they were getting the calls from our guests and our teachers, like what is this? And it's like, oh yeah, I've got to remember to train you. But also it helps that my mom was a classified employee in a school and she always reminded me when I became an administrator, never forget the classified, which is why I'm very adamant. I don't call it faculty and staff. We are one staff because there is that delineation. So when we have a staff meeting, everybody is part of that. We are one team and we're not segregated by our titles and our credentials and services. My administrative system can do just as much as I can. It's just a difference in title and that doesn't matter. But it's important that they know that. So administrators on here train your office staff because they're gonna save you a lot of time and they're gonna save your staff a lot of heartache and they're gonna be providing much better customer service for your programs, which will increase your enrollment. To pick, I can't stress what he just said enough. If you can just teach your front office staff to teach students how to check their email and how to log on to Zoom, that took away 90 by 95% of our issues. I fielded so many calls and emails from teachers that were spending so much time, class time, trying to get students logged on, trying to figure out how to get them on Zoom. Why can't they find their emails that it, oh my, they weren't teaching and they were getting burned out and upset. And I finally just said, you teach, refer anybody with any issues to the front office and my front office staff just ran with it. They got trained on what they needed to, but it just took away so many issues. That's great. That's great. I mean, that's the way to do it, thinking outside the box and letting people... Well, then the whole agency becomes a learning environment. It's not a segregated job of just the teachers to teach. Well, the one thing that we're devoting here in Auckland is adult ed that I've worked with our human resources department on, I've hired a new ELL teacher who will be teaching our literacy course, but she's also coming to us having taught what I refer to as computer literacy. She has a big fancy title for it, but she's gonna be teaching the course for our ELL students, number one. But number two, as part of our onboard process starting in next fall of all of our classified staff in the district, part of their requirement is gonna be to take and we haven't figured out what that perfect time is, but teaching them all the tools that we have in the district on how to access the technology so that all of our staff throughout the school district are trained because we have classified staff who are enrolled in our ELL in the workplace courses that don't know how to even access their own district email. So we're devoting a time as a district to do this training for all classified staff in addition to our ELL population in adult secondary eds. Super, Steven, I think that's gonna be, they're gonna see you as high value added for providing them with that. That's a great strategy. Others should try it. Our next slide, Jananus, do we have, okay. Our next question, we're looking at questions about attendance and assessments. That are there any record keeping requirements that your agency feels need to be addressed or different options for tracking things? Anybody have any thoughts you wanna share about that? And I know Kay and I have peaked at data over the last few months within TopsPro Enterprise. And to us, it seems like it might be a little too soon to talk about outcomes for high flex versus non-high flex classes. Anybody have any thoughts on this from our panelists? I would say, yeah, it's probably a little too soon, but I just go to my data entry to make sure that all the right boxes are checked in Tops so that our teachers can take accurate attendance. But turns out outcomes, yeah, I'm not there yet. At Garden Grove, we have been really good. Our director was really good about from the get go, really establishing the numbers as far as in-class students versus online students. And so we have a support clerk that will come and actually check, you know, because in our attendance and areas, we're just clicking whether they're here or not. It's not segregating whether they're in-class or online. And so we have a clerk that will walk around and actually take count and she'll ask us how many in-class students and how many online students there are. But as far as that, it stops. So as far as like gains, EFL gains and things like that, it's too difficult for us to kind of now go back through the data and then start separating it. So I'm really, really exciting actually about what Kay and Janice are gonna talk about as far as costs as a solution to that in the future. So I think that because we started this data from the get go, we have an idea of how we would like to see different, you know, data points on do the on-class, you know, online students, are we meeting their needs and they're getting their EFL gains, more so or less so than the in-class students, you know, and what is the difference percentage-wise. So, and then pre and post tests too, do we have more success with our in-class students versus our remote students and things like that? So I'm pretty excited about what's to come from CASAs in regards to actually segregating these data points for us that we can see it very clearly. But let me just kind of step, thank you for that introduction, Elisa and Steve about checking the box. Let me share a couple of slides that are in the PowerPoint that that Carla so kindly has uploaded to the chat. There's a new option when you define a class in Topsport Enterprise, the class instance, it's over here in the instructional setting and it's a checkbox called HiFlex. And one way that we envision agencies being able to use it is let's say I have a class and there's two different sessions happening. There's one that is, as you can see, distance learning only and then there's one that's HiFlex. So if you track your attendance and your outcomes and things, you can run a report and in Topsport Enterprise, you go over onto that left column here where you select the report navigator and you can choose just that one class. So if I ran the NRS Pursistor Report on this first class with the HiFlex check and then on the second class without that setting, you could get two different reports and compare. So if you're looking the columns that come up in the Pursistor is average attendance and percentage with an EFL gain. So I'm hoping that as we get closer into June that these numbers will fill up a little bit for agencies and they can go ahead and pull more statistics out for what's going on in their agencies. So let's- Janice, is that available right now? Like, can we do that today? And like, even though we're in the middle of a semester, I mean, will it, you know, you know, project backwards in, you know, in retro all the data from before too? Right, like if you were to go into the class instances Lister, you could say which are the classes that I've identified as HiFlex. And then within Topsport Enterprise, depending on how you mentioned Aries doesn't segregate between distance versus face to face. If you were doing that using a daily model, it could actually calculate the attendance hours very easily. But it'll, it can reach for the ones like the EFL gains, that it can do very simply between one class that's HiFlex and one class that's not. And that's in current build 25 of Topsport Enterprise. So what we're, I guess you, yes. I think Janice probably has something in here, but what we're projecting, asking of these people, they've been very gracious in their willingness to work with us on this. And between now and the end of this school year in June, they've agreed to be a part of a tiny, and it's tiny because of the duration, not because of the participants and the numbers, action research project. And they're going to be looking together at the HiFlex model and trying to determine whether or not using HiFlex results in measurable improvements in learner attendance and in student learning over that period of three months. And so what we're kind of thinking is that in order to make it viable, we would ask them to evaluate one class that has the HiFlex model and another that doesn't. And then for agencies that only have HiFlex, then it would just be their HiFlex students and looking at the attendance and determining whether or not students attend more if they have the option of doing HiFlex. If, for instance, Jennifer, they have transportation issues, are they choosing then to attend via online as opposed to in class? And then also, since each of these programs that are participating with us are involved in the EFLA program, or that we're asking them to take a look at the pre-imposed assessments of their learners. So hopefully everybody has a pre-test on the students at this point or if they have new students, they'll be pre-testing them. And then at the end of May, taking a look at post-test, and we just are wanting to see, is there any significant difference between students who have attended online or attended in class? And what are they showing in learning gains? It's just a very, it's a drop in the bucket of what we hope will come and follow. I think that all of the three support projects, CASUS, OTAN and CalPro are very interested in HiFlex and it's new in the sense that you folks are kind of like pioneers of a new project. And I think it hopefully will grow. So what we're looking at is determining on a very small scale what kind of impact HiFlex has had with your learners. And then, as we move forward, it'll give information to the leadership projects. There's thought of perhaps being able to flesh it out more as we move forward. So we'll see. We'll see what kind of interest in response we get. I'm sorry, David. I saw a question there, but I didn't have a chance to read what your question was. David was asking, will the action be? Yes, they're also going to be looking at attendance. And that's why Janice is showing how in top's enterprise they can indicate that this is a HiFlex class. And then as we move forward, we'll have attendance data and assessment data. And we've developed a couple of surveys that we're going to ask one as a student survey. The other one is an administrator survey. And hopefully we'll be able to put all of these together. And come up with some sort of conclusions. And they've agreed that they will come back and share with us at Casa Summer Institute in June, what we've learned in this little bitty mini action research project. I look forward to that, Kay. I'm glad you're the one behind it, piloting all this effort and this research. I was in a... I think it's really exciting. I mean, I miss my onsite time from back when I was working more face to face with teachers and learners. And I think it's really exciting that you folks are willing to take a look at this and determine, is this viable? And if it is, hopefully it will expand and more people will take advantage of providing these options for their learners. And I think all teachers know that there's such a power in attendance. That a student that attends regularly stays with their cohort. They tend to retain information better. And if there's something about HiFlex that allows them to keep their attendance in a more uniform fashion, not only does it help their retention, it helps the school when it comes time to do the post-testing because everybody is more caught up and proceeding as a group. I heard that from a colleague in Rhode Island at a conference recently. And she said that that's been a huge benefit of HiFlex that they're all staying together and that there are no holes. Anybody in the audience wants to share a little bit about what your agency is doing with HiFlex? I'm gonna look for hands up if you wanna raise your hand, see if there's any other questions you have for our panelists. We're kind of right on time, thankfully. My agency's not doing anything at all with this. And it seems to be the way of the TDLS, which is always way ahead of my agency. Thank you, Karen. What agency are you with? West Country Costa. We had requested some hybrid classes this year but it didn't happen. So we have either or at this point and I haven't heard any plans for next year, but I'll bring a little report about this. Thank you. We appreciate it. Martha, I see your hand. Did you wanna share a question or a comment? I do. I kind of have a little bit of everything. Bring it on. So my agency is Los Angeles Community College District. And my home college is City College. And so we have nine colleges in our district. So there's a lot of different things happening. High Flex is really a high priority on our district's sort of to-do list and agenda and list of goals. And it is being implemented in the district. At my school, we're not doing High Flex in our non-credit program right now, but not for any kind of specific reason. It's just sort of the way the enrollment came together. We are using High Flex cameras though. I love my OWL camera for my online classes even for just using it like a webcam. It's so, so nice because I can teach in my classroom and use my board and it's really fantastic. But we do have a couple other colleges in the district who have done almost exclusively High Flex this semester. And they're having a lot of success. Now they're doing this in their credit classes as well. So we're kind of getting a lot of sort of action research ideas from all kind of different contexts across the district. I am so, and I was kind of late to this because I was teaching just a few minutes ago. And so I just came in and the first thing I saw was that slide that said new High Flex option in Topps Pro. And I was like, oh my God, this is the best. So I'm super excited about this. And yeah, I think that we're probably, this is gonna be a big action project for us at Citi specifically in the next couple of semesters. You know, especially like our intersessions when we do the most kind of experimentation. But it's definitely a high priority for students. It's students are the ones that are really like, hey, I like this remote option kind of mix thing happening. So I think it's gonna, we're gonna see some good outcomes from this. That's all. Awesome, Martha. I wanna talk to you more about this. Would you send me a note or jfira at casus.org? I would love to. Yeah, definitely. I'll put my email in the chat. Good, thank you. Okay. Dr. Todd Wold, you have the stage. What's up? What's your thoughts? I'm gonna get this on. How is everybody? Great, thank you. I wanted to share with you just a couple of things. I wanna appreciate all of you guys sharing your stories. And we had a chance to implement a new NCCR course intro to construction this year, which I'm teaching, you know, cause we can't find anybody with CTE credentials, of course. But we've pretty much been able to do this model. Of course, there's some in-person stuff that we have to be able to do. With construction, so power tools, hand tools, and they have to do performance tasks and demonstrate safety and proficiency and things of the sort, and wearing proper safety equipment. But with that, we're a small district over across 725 square miles. And there are pockets of poor members of our community that are really spaced out. And for us to offer a program where we have enough students to even offer the class in any one of these kind of pocket locations, just doesn't fly. So this model has made it more accessible. So I wanted to point that out. Every single one of the students that signed up for the course is Latino. Most of them are bilingual Latino, if not all. And so the other thing I wanted to point out is having a, like my program secretary, and Millie Carranio is her name, she being bilingual and very tech savvy has been able to do a lot of those things like Steve pointed out earlier and others pointed out earlier as well. Just how do I get into an email and how do we get on to Zoom? And we created a, sorry, I'm gonna ask her right now. Hey, Millie, what's the name of our TTSD.edu domain? Thank you. We had to separate a different domain so that our adult head students didn't have access to the K-12 students in the district. And so even some things like that where we had to set them up with their very first email ever. But we've seen higher persistence. We've seen higher participation, higher access. And like I said, by 100% people in our community who traditionally don't have as much access. So it's pretty cool. I appreciate you guys telling your stories. Carla, do we have time for a quick one minute poll just as we end up our discussion today? I see there's a couple minutes. Yeah, let's launch that. Is this a good time? Sure, thank you so much. Let's go. Poll number two. The question is, how was today's panel helpful to you? Select all that apply. Ideas for training instructors, methods for engaging students, hardware and software to research further, additional ways to analyze barriers or outcomes or maybe something else that you picked up on that was encouraging or challenging. We appreciate your feedback on this. Hey, Janice, is there any way that we as a group could see Alisa put her owl in action? We've got three minutes, or Alisa, were you gonna do your owl at 2.45? I'm not gonna do it at 2.5, but I do have a session. I think at one o'clock. I have another session today and I will do it, but I just set it up if you have like a minute. I can set it up real fast. Thank you to all our panelists. We appreciate so much. Your help, your time. Alisa, Steve, Laura, Steven, Jennifer. Thank you so much. Thank you for asking. So you have 72 responded. Should I show share results? Yes, please. There we go. Sam. Thank you. I did. And I don't always manage to save the results of polls. So I grabbed my phone and take a picture of it so I could look at it later. All right, Alisa, you've got the floor. I'll stop sharing. If you wanted to share a little bit. It's possible. I can see she's moving around. Yeah. Do you see my, do you see a Google Doc? I see Google Docs, yes. Yes. So now I've left my computer. I've left my laptop and I'm walking in the, I'm in the middle of my room at the front of the board. And now I can stand in front of the whiteboard and I can instruct the students that are in the class, but yet I'm still engaging with students on Zoom. And so through the Zoom annotation because of our insert. So as I'm moving, so this is how 360 works. As I'm moving, it's not instantaneous. It's through movement and sound. And so the camera will follow me, but it's not like right away. So it does get a little bit challenging when you have a conversation going because it will split. I don't have anybody else in my classroom, but if another student was talking, it would split the screen and it would show that student plus myself because we are having a conversation. But sometimes by the time that student talks, the camera picks it up. I've had a conversation with someone else. So again, it's not really, it's not 100% but it does work. So I can ask Steve, I see Steve on my big whiteboard. The in-class students can see Steve on the whiteboard. And I can say, Steve, do you have a question for one of my students in class? And then he can unmute and talk to the students. I don't have a question at this time. So we're gonna practice conversation, blah, blah, blah. So as you can see on your end, you'll see that there's a big panoramic view of my classroom right now. And then on the bottom, that's where it will either do a single screen, a split screen or even in three, depending on the motion and the conversations that are happening. Can you hear me pretty well? Yeah, pretty good. I was gonna ask, are you taking input from your headset mic or from the owl mic? No, I actually had to take my headset off. I was using the headset when I can't see that part, sorry. Yeah, so I took my headset off. So the owl has its own built-in speaker and microphone. So I can walk around the classroom pretty much anywhere. And I'm sticking a little bit above normal voice just because I wanna make sure that I might not even have to. And so I'm able to now go help students that I need to in the class while still being engaged with students online and vice versa. So that's kind of how the owl works. Is there any way to focus onto the boards or the TV or does it have that capability to zoom in on those? Yeah, there's a phone app that I could actually like freeze the screen so that it's only focusing on one. But because there's so much interactive, like if I'm sharing my curriculum or I'm sharing anything I'm projecting share screen here, it's hard for my students to, it's hard just normally to navigate between the thumbnail of the presentation versus me talking. And so that's something that we had a teacher students about flipping back and forth between, if I'm writing on this board, then they're gonna wanna look at this. But if I'm talking about something that they're gonna wanna focus on being. So that again is another one of the struggles with navigating the whole system with our students too. And then also not being, not looking at the camera on my computer anymore, that was a hard, I have to look at the owl because the camera is not here. I can't stand too close because then I'd like, it gets too close to the shot. I'm so sorry, I have to stop. I know Carla has to go. She's got another presentation to manage. Alisa, you came through in a pinch. Thank you. We look forward to your 245 presentation. May everyone be sure to check out that. Thank you to all our presenters. We appreciate you and we look forward to seeing you all at Summer Institute.