 Hi folks, John Bergman here. I am going to talk to you guys about flipped classroom for administrators I really want to emphasize what that looks like for you guys a couple things I want to highlight here if you're interested in following me on Twitter There's my Twitter handle. I've got a couple of important websites I'd like you to look at flipped learning org is a nonprofit organization that Aaron Samson. I started recently Lots of information training opportunities, etc. My personal blog is very similar flipped hyphen learning comm Lots of resources there as well and my musings and then probably the best place to go is this right here flipped classroom.org I'd encourage you to go to flip classroom.org. It is website social media website for flippers completely free Place for you to contact and connect with other people who are interested in the flip classroom And of course if you're a Twitter follower the hashtag flip class is a great thing to follow There's a flip class chat every Monday night if you're at all interested But I want to talk today about administrators and how administrators play in this game So I really believe that we're in exciting times. What I mean by that is exciting times of change You see I think we're moving from this classroom that that teacher centered classroom of the past To this classroom this learner centered Inquiry driven problem-based classroom of the future. This is where I think we're moving and administrators Are starting to see this as important, right? And let me emphasize something one thing that's important that Aaron I often say is that this this idea of the flip classroom was built in the trenches. So it was built by by teachers Practicing in classrooms. You see this is education from the bottom up a grassroots movements If you will not not education reform from the top down which has sadly so often occurred and frankly been I would see largely Ineffective so what let's kind of do a little background at the flip classroom the flip classroom really needs to start with one question How many questions that's right one question. What is that one question? It is this what is the most valuable use of your class time or should I say go face-to-face time with students? What is the best use of your class time? If you answer that question, I think you can get so far. Well, let me explain what how we answered that question So in the 2007 2008 school year as we actually came up with the idea. No 2006-7 school year anyways Erin and I thought What if we took our direct content and we moved it to home so the lecture, right? So we were high school science teachers particularly chemistry and there's let's say there's this much time in class But the problem is there's this much stuff to cover, right? And so what we did is we took that that home time was right here this extra stuff that had been pushed to the Home and we moved it back into the class and out of the class we took the lecture There were still things that you know activities and labs and stuff that we'd always done and we kept doing we didn't change any of that eventually we did which I might briefly touch on a little bit later, but That's the flip what was done at home was in a class was done in class has done at home Okay, now before I really talk to you administrators I want to make a couple of important things that everybody seems to want to ask these like Critical questions and they are important, but they've been resolved question number one flipped learning relies on the videos So many people say it's all about these videos It's about the videos there's been a lot of hype about the Sal Khan Khan Academy videos a lot kind of stuff It's not about the videos It's about the active engaged stuff that you can do in the class. That is the key Another big misconception is they think it really hurt students who have little access at home to technology This is an important issue. So don't don't say I'm demean diminishing this problem But we solved this problem at least for us in our school in the mountains of Colorado We had 25% of our kids without internet at home. So what did we do? Well, some kids had computers, but no internet So we gave them flash drives to put them on and then we had kids who had no computer no internet And so we put them DVDs so you could like a unit at a time like, you know six or seven videos We put them on a DVD. They took it home. They put in their TV and they pushed play Every kid so far has had a DVD player access to one and with the advent of more and more phones that have video capability The vast majority of students have that option as well So it can be solved and in fact another thing to say about this whole digital divide You don't have to always have the videos as homework another big Problem that people cite when they discuss the flipped learning is they say that it's just propagating a bad Teaching technique that is lecture that lecture is a bad technique of communicating content If you are a person who can teach completely without direct instruction of your whole class Then you're probably a better teacher than me because I really needed that time that direct instruction I just don't believe the place of it is me with 30 kids all at the same time So I guess you know if you if you don't believe in direct instruction at all, that's fine But for those of us who do I think this is a viable and important technique now when I talked about the flip classroom At least in that first iteration I talked about it in our actually we did that for one year and then we moved to what we called the flipped mastery approach That's something important to say that it's I would really really encourage and I challenge teachers all the time Who flipped their class to take it to the next level to what we're calling flipped class 201 or possibly 202 or to some other level? And we moved to a mastery system Which we talked in our book about a second half of our book is about the flipped master approach where you start with the Direct instruction you move to practice application and then when they get to the end of a unit of study It's assessed that was that's always the process, but if they don't understand it they don't reach a prescribed level of mastery then they have to remediate and So kids it becomes asynchronous with the kids work at different levels And if you want to know how that works I'd encourage you to read the books and benefits of the flipped mastery model is like students were independent learners They learn how to learn for themselves They the teachers able to differentiate that the subtitle of our book is reach every kid in every class every day Why because we talked to every kid in every class every day. We truly had a differentiated experience It was a personalized learning environment for students now another benefit of the mastery models that there's no gaps So a student actually has to learn it before they can move on so So often in some subjects that kid you get to the end of the unit kid gets a 42 And what do you do the next day? Well, you move on to the next chapter or the next unit or whatever, right? And then kids get lost and then there's gaps and then they don't understand something and then they're lost, right? Also, if you're talking every kid every kid how many kids every that's right every kid There's no place for them to hide. I like to say that you really can reach every kid in every class every day So now let's let's dive down to the administrator piece So if you've got teachers who are flipping or considering flipping their classes, what does that look like? Number one know that class like this it will not look like this. You're gonna have a Very different active engaged classroom Don't expect the case to be sitting in nice neat rows and don't expect it to be necessarily a quiet environment Okay, also, you know, I've talked to a number of interstates. Oh, I want this change I want this change the reality is is people change at different rates And I'm sure you administrators understand this and and now that I'm in an administrative role as a district technology coordinator and instructional coach That role I've realized that I need to be patient with teachers as they undergo the process of change So give them time to change Also give them time to collaborate the flip-class, you know, like I said was born earlier on I said by by Teachers in the trenches, but you know At first it was just Aaron and me right in our classrooms that were next to each other But then our world expanded and we got with social networking and met other teachers and whatever It's become much better because we've got a collaborative group of people to work with it's best Of course if you can collaborate face-to-face at your school with teachers But there's also other ways to collaborate that is not necessarily on in a face-to-face environment It could be you know through social media or something like that Also give them permission to make mistakes, okay We made a lot of mistakes our administrator our principal del Garrick principal at the Woodland Park High School He gave us we made mistakes and he basically forgave us for mistakes and you know He allowed us to just experiment and I would encourage you to do that and no it's not going to run completely smooth You know a teacher evaluation is kind of an interesting thing, right? Because there's this sort of rules that everybody follows, you know Charlotte Danielson and all that stuff You know, what is it going to look like? How do you how do you measure this, right? Here's the question. I want you to ask are the students engaged Your teacher evaluation will need to look different. Okay Adele my my Adele Garrick our principal He came in our class. He looked around. He said the kids are active. They're engaged. They're learning. I get it. You're good Okay, not exactly the big formal thing that fit into the nice little rubric, but he got it Okay, you know also it can be discouraging as you are working through Something new as teachers are trying something new encourage them to just keep on keeping on, you know And one thing also I'll come back to Dell. I think he had some wise words One thing we were talking about change just change in general not just the flip classroom But the flip classroom is the context of our conversation. He said, you know John and Aaron the first year you're trying something new It's hard Roadblocks you've got push back from people etc the second year you work out the kinks the third year It's culture and you know what that's exactly the progression that we saw He said that year one and it was exactly the progression. We saw by the third year You know, I think the best way to if you really want the flip classroom to happen in your school Is you need to get a coach and so I'd encourage you to reach out to some of the flip class experts Frankly, this is one of the things that we're doing at flipped learning org our nonprofit organization is that we are beginning a coaching model where Experienced flip class teachers can come alongside Schools districts etc. So I encourage you to find a coach that can walk them through this It doesn't have to be one of us, but find somebody else, you know, and clearly the flip classroom does rely on some technology And so I want to remind you that you are the boss of the it department So often I've seen as I've had a lot of experiences and opportunities to travel around this country and the world even About the flip classroom It seems like the it department rules the school and I I encourage you To make sure that the it people are there to support this endeavor It's not like it's huge amounts of it, but there is a level of technology that they're going to need support on You know, be a buffer didn't have a cool picture for this one But be a buffer for them, you know, there's going to be some pushback from possibly the community I would encourage you to stand behind your teachers and say we're doing this and this is what we think is best for kids And so be that for your teachers Also be a sounding board There's going to be some some hiccups. There's going to be some road bumps in the in the road as they make this So be the person that they can listen to And have a conversation with, all right Now here's something I really like to challenge you administrators on model it Flip your faculty meetings. I have sat into too many faculty meetings With administrations who sometimes are using it as just content dissemination They've gone to the lecture mode really and there's got to be a way what I ask you like I asked At the beginning, what is the best use of your face-to-face time not your face-to-face time with students But your face-to-face time with your teachers I would bet it's you know if I and I am I have flip faculty meetings or not really faculty meetings, but my technology committee meetings I really want us to use that time to have conversation So if there's information that needs to be got out to my group I'm going to email it and I'm going to expect them to read it So I would really encourage you to model this and think through what this could look like from your level And by modeling it, I think that's a very powerful thing. You know, ultimately, I think this is all about personalization The flip classroom is about personalizing the learning environment for all kids or in your case personalizing the the professional development of your teachers or Yeah, so back in 1950 when you're buying a car, you know your choices were, you know gray or tan or Red or whatever, right? But you know if you move now if you go to the the ford website and you can build Your own escape from the roof rails down. You see our world has moved to a personalized environment Our schools sadly have not caught up to the personalized Revolution that has taken place in in the world You know you go to starbucks and you can order exactly what you want But in education you walk in and it looks the classrooms in many cases Not always in many cases still like look like the classes of 40 50 and 100 years ago Even with the teacher standing in front of the board Or maybe they've got a projector doing the same old thing So I would really encourage you to think about how the flip classroom can personalize learning environment for all students I would encourage you if you want to read more to check out our book Copolished by ASCD and I este or este Flip your classroom reach every kid in every class every day. Have a great day Thank you