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so you see how they're in the same what if you
took the traditional school day and flipped it
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on its head not literally of course but having
lessons offered at night at home and homework
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done by day in the classroom that's the experiment
underway at Clinton Dale high school just outside
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Detroit an area is still reeling from the
economic and social ills of the nearby city
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the school serves many low-income families and
faces tight budgets and declining enrollment so
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what's the number parking on April 3 just three
years ago almost half of Clinton Dale's ninth
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graders were failing math science and English
and overall school performance was ranked in the
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lowest 5% in Michigan yeah principal Greg Green
decided to take a risk frankly when we're doing
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very well and so yeah we had to make a change I
mean we were we're desperate for change his aha
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moment came while coaching his 11 year old son's
baseball team having learned to record and post
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instructional videos for his players to watch
outside of practice he was struck by how much
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time was then left to focus on individual players
on the field he saw the educational potential
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starting with the power of videos because go
back and watch them as many times that they
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want and enemy ISM is an instructor or expert I
don't have to redo that all the time and I can
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spend my time with with the students in class and
actually assisting them and so if I could do that
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with 11 year olds imagine what we could do with
15 or 16 year olds to be math Green went all in
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flipping the entire school urging his staff
to rethink the use of technology and how it
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complements traditional teaching and getting
local businesses to help fund the after the
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legislative branch make the laws now lectures are
recorded and posted online the American Civil War
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lasted from 1861 to 1865 where teachers can
assign outside videos from the popular Khan
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Academy and TED Talks pretty small yeah students
watch these videos as homework outside of class
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why do you say akuto Nia in class students now
do what was once considered homework assignments
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designed to test learning comprehension clinton
dale teachers say this allows more time for
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one-on-one help and often encourages students to
collaborate in problem-solving but English teacher
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Rob damron said it took some convincing when we
first did this it was funny to look around that
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staff meeting I look at a lot of staff members you
know especially the ones that have been here 25 30
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years it's in what are you talking about what's
a blog you know what's a Google group apostrophes
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makes a noun show ownership or possession for
teaching for 20 years I know what lessons kids
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are going to have a problem with but I think with
doing this flipped approach there's problems I
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didn't even know existed so you really can't
hide back there in the corner and say yeah I
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got it you know and then the teacher sees later on
well no you really didn't get it one problem the
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school faced head-on students who can't afford
or don't have access to technology outside of
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class they're given extra time in the school's
media lab segregation before 1954 taking the
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technology driven approach further some lesson
plans are now tailored to have students use the
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latest trends in social media I think the moment
is when we have the right to vote we do you think
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about we deserve like this project have required
constitutional amendments to be summed up in six
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seconds for the popular website vine Greene says
that taken all together after three years the
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flip is paying off our HTT games have have shown
LW the national average as far as ECT games you
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know state testing we've had some mixed results on
that and we've also seen an increase in graduation
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rates to almost 90 percent of college acceptance
rates at 80 percent senior Darrell Wallace jr. is
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one example his grades have risen from a 2.5 GPA
as a freshman to 3.5 as a senior and he says the
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flip has played a big role he now watches videos
on his cell phone taking the bus home into a rough
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section of Detroit where he lives with his mother
and four sisters I really looked at the videos
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more because I know I might not have as much
time at home because my sisters are in college
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and they need the computer so I'm like I can do it
on my phone and the bus ride is like 30 minutes so
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I probably get like half of my assignment done
Darryl's mother's Sabrina young also likes the
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flipped model saying there's only so much she can
do to help with traditional homework especially
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algebra so I'm doing it s Co is a plus for him an
as well as me because I just didn't remember do we
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charity of it the popularity of online learning
is surged in recent years and flipped classrooms
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have started popping up everywhere from elementary
schools to some of the nation's top universities
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Clinton Dale is the first u.s. high school to
do a total flip Harvard's Justin Reich has been
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studying the trend and says he's cautiously
optimistic what is exciting to me about the
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flipped classroom is that it gets teachers asking
two really important fundamental questions what
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are the best ways for me to use my time especially
the very precious time I have in classrooms with
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my students and then what are the kinds of direct
instruction that I could provide that could be
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digitized so that people could watch it again I
gave you a week five but Reich says that flipping
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alone isn't enough as with any lesson plan it
all depends on exactly what's being offered if
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what we see from the flipped classroom is that
we take bad lectures and uninteresting worksheet
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problems that characterize a lot of the experience
that students have in schools and we simply flip
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the order of those two things the odds that we
see significant improvement in our schools is
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pretty low and so now we're going to be taking
the derivative with respect to T meanwhile some
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individual teachers are experimenting with the
flipped classroom on their own three years ago
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Stacey Roshan flipped her upper level math
classroom at the private Bullis High School
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outside of Washington DC where students pay up
to $35,000 a year in tuition high r-squared age
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she says it's been working for her but that it
might not be for everyone I think what's the most
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important thing is that you really think through
what your problem is I wouldn't say that because
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everybody's doing the flipped classroom it's
cool you should do the flipped classroom too
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my problem was really time anxiety and perhaps
if I went to another school I would do things
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completely differently one added surprise for
Roshan in structuring her class this way is what
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she learned about the reach of her online lessons
I get thank-you letters from students all the time
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not even just from the US but overseas too and
I at that part always amazes me back at Clinton
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Dale principal Greg Greene's big experiment is
getting a lot of attention more than 200 educators
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from around the world have visited the school
trying to draw lessons from the flipped classroom
