Key Element: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Classroom

The PfISD Blended Learning Model incorporates and teaches all learners how to collaborate effectively with others.

All learners are taught how to collaborate effectively and respect different viewpoints. They have the opportunity to partner with peers and adults (both local and global professionals) to learn how to work well with diverse teams. Within learning settings, there are significant student-to-student interactions and more student talk than teacher talk.

Key Element: Equitable Learning Opportunities

The PfISD Blended Learning Model provides Equitable Learning Opportunities for ALL learners.

Learning opportunities are designed to support the needs of All learners, whether the general population, English Learners (EL), or learners who need enrichment or special services. All learners have access to the resources they need, including technology, and are taught how to use it. All learners have access to materials they can access at a developmentally appropriate level, including level of language development.

Key Element: Personalized and Student-Driven Learning

The PfISD Blended Learning Model is personalized and student-driven, encouraging all learners to take initiative to make choices that best support their own learning and get what they need.

All learners have choice in what, when, where, how, and with whom they learn based on their personal needs. All learners have opportunities to choose from a variety of formal and informal assessments to demonstrate their learning. Face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid learning environments promote flexible time, place, path, and pace for students to take initiative and make choices based on their personal interests.

Key Element: Authentic, Real-World Connections

The PfISD Blended Learning Model promotes Authentic Learning by making explicit Real-World Connections.

Learning experiences are intentionally designed to engage all learners through connecting classroom content to relevant real-world issues, topics, and application. The instructional model promotes learning as an active, hands-on process, emphasizing inquiry and exploration over rote memorization. There are a variety of assessment opportunities including those that are more authentic to how content skills and knowledge are used outside of school or in real-life. All learners are given authentic opportunities to develop critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills using the modes, language, and tools in their world, and whose value extends beyond any single classroom or course.

Key Element: Social / Emotional Well-Being

The PfISD Blended Learning Model addresses the social and emotional well-being of all students.

Adults develop classroom and school cultures and structures that allow students to feel safe, supported, and willing to take risks. Students are actively engaged in contributing to and monitoring the school and classroom cultures. Adults are committed to addressing the needs of the Whole Child every day. Teachers build relationships with all students and promote a culture of collaboration within their classrooms, regardless of the setting. Parents/families and community members are seen as equal partners engaged in learning.

Key Element: Goal Setting and Self-Regulation

The PfISD Blended Learning Model incorporates learner Goal-Setting to promote every learner’s Self-Regulation of their own learning.

All learners are taught to take on the responsibility for their own learning and are supported as they develop those skills and mindsets. They learn how to set goals and actively plan and monitor their actions in order to persevere through tasks that are appropriately challenging. Learner autonomy is promoted, and learning is encouraged by tapping into each learner’s intrinsic motivation for learning.