Blended Learning in Pflugerville ISD

This site is intended to help educators in Pflugerville ISD learn about and implement the district's blended learning model. Here you will find resources about blended learning whether you are new to the idea or a seasoned veteran. We are especially interested in hearing about how you choose to implement blended learning, the resources you use, and some sample activities that have worked well in your classroom or school.

Our Why for Blended Learning

Blended Learning meets students at the speed of their learning. Blended learning leverages technology to facilitate personalization of learning experiences, enabling PfISD to ensure equitable learning paths for all students based on their academic, social, and emotional needs.

Why We Need to Take Action

The Challenge: Meeting Each Student’s Needs. We are seeing students with extreme variability in their academic, social, and emotional needs, and we recognize that a one-size-fits-all educational approach leads to persistent learning gaps.

Our Solution: Blended Learning. Blended learning will be a pedagogical shift and include engaging, authentic and relevant student learning opportunities to demonstrate/assess their new skills and knowledge. In this model, teachers serve as both the designers of student learning experiences as well as the guides that facilitate student learning.

Our Process: Implementation Plan. How might we as a school district use the resources available to support our teachers to meet that challenge both more efficiently and effectively?

We will communicate the Why, What, and How of Blended Learning to support teachers in their use of the practice with their students.
We will equip our educators for success, making digital tools, instructional resources, and professional learning more widely available.
We will leverage the expertise and experience of all members of our PfISD learning community to support a plan for sustainable implementation.

What is Blended Learning in PfISD?

In Pflugerville ISD, blended learning in its simplest terms refers to any learning experience that combines face-to-face instruction with the teacher and online or digital instructional tools. Blended learning leverages technology to support student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and student-to-content connections in a way that differentiates academic paths for each student and adjusts lesson tasks based on real-time experiences that lead to student mastery.

Whether that engagement is independent or in collaboration with others virtually or in-person, the tools employed within a blended learning model are secondary to the intended learning goals and the means by which to meet them. Blended learning approaches serve not as a competitor but as a complement to parallel frameworks for learning already in use across the district.

By designing a relationship-driven environment that provides students with appropriate control over what, when, where, how, and with whom they learn, educators employing a blended approach effectively empower their students to own their learning.

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