1. Catalyst Charter Middle School
Ripon, WI
Backchannel
todaysmeet.com/catalyst

2. — Opened fall 2012
— PBL curriculum and
approach
— 3 themes:
— Digital citizenship
— Green futures
— STEM
— Creating…
Communicating…
Collaborating…

3. — Brian Bennett- The
Flipped Classroom is a
mindset, not a method
— Aaron Sams - There is
no such thing as THE
flipped classroom

4. — Just videos — A means to INCREASE
interaction and
— An online class
personalized contact
— Replacing teachers with time between students
videos and teachers
— Students working — An environment where
without structure students
take responsibility for
— Students working alone
their own learning

5. — A classroom where students who are absent due to illness
or extra-curricular activities such as athletics or field-trips,
don't get left behind.
— A class where content is permanently archived for
review or remediation.
— A class where all students are engaged in their learning.
— A place where all students can get
a personalized education

6. 1. Video introduces topic, class time
expands on it
2. Video interlude introduces a problem or
a challenge
3. Video introduces homework
4. Video prompts reflection
5. Students teach with video

7. Create an
engaging, Make the best
interactive use of your face-
environment that to-face time with
is student- your students.
centered.
Focus on
Practice, deeper meaning
application, and and
working with connections, not
content is done just basic rote
inside of class. memorization
and practice.

8. 1. Started with the end in
mind
2. Kept it simple
3. Connected, connected,
connected
4. Used other available
resources for videos

12. Ted Ed
Khan Academy

13. — Jing: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
— Screencast-o-Matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
— Screenr: http://www.screenr.com/
• Educreations - http://
www.educreations.com/
• Explain Everything
http://
www.explaineverything.com/

14. — Vimeo

15. Wikispaces Edmodo
Google Sites

17. • Podcast of directions for
groups
• Wiki used to share information

18. Google Docs/
Collections
"Innovative learning requires that you trust yourself, that you be self-directed
rather than other-directed in both your life and work." Warren Bennis

19. Resources
• Catalyst Charter Middle School
(http://catalystcharter.wikispaces.com)
• Resources for Flipped Lessons
(http://catalystresources.wikispaces.com)
Pinterest collection on Flipped Lessons
(http://pinterest.com/stampcat2/flipped-classroom)
• Catalyst Charter Middle School Blog
(http://catalystchannel.blogspot.com)
Contacts:
Tom Hoh – hoht@ripon.k12.wi.us
Sandy Wisneski – wisneskis@ripon.k12.wi.us
Tim Scottberg – scottbergt@ripon.k12.wi.us