Want to Learn More about Blended?

Try a Blended Learning Exploration Workshop.

The Alvo Institute’s Blended Learning Exploration Workshops offer focused support for teachers, administrators, and districts leaders who are implementing a blended learning program for the first time. Participants value the practical support offered by Alvo’s team of educators who were the first tech-agnostic firm in the country to support educators in blended methods. You won’t find another team with more experience in blended.

Audience: Teachers, Instructional Specialists and Coaches, Principals, District Leadership new to the concepts of blended learning (3 Hours, In-person Workshop) Learn how to dream about, design and launch a Blended Learning program that meets your school’s unique needs.  Will you push the envelope or replicate an existing model?  Will you use a learning lab or one-to-one computing?  What will the role of the teacher become in your model? Will you use Blended to support competency-based learning, project based learning or another method?

Participants will learn about the critical design and implementation steps, often overlooked, to launch blended programs with a focus on how to create a Blended program that centers on the instructional needs of the students as well as how to identify program needs and select technology that supports your unique needs.

Click HERE to schedule a Blended Learning Exploration Workshop for your school or district.

Audience: Teachers, Instructional Specialists and Coaches who are aware of blended learning but want to learn more about how they can start innovating in their classroom. (3 hours, Online and In-Person Options)

Teachers will leave the workshop having identified practical skills, concepts and strategies they can try as soon as they return to their classroom.  Individual teachers can begin to pilot Blended instruction in their classrooms even if their school is not ready to take on a school-wide implementation.  In fact, it is often through the innovations in a single classroom that inspire more wide scale change.

Blended classrooms, in their most complex and dynamic iterations, are daunting for any teacher to take on all at once.  In this workshop we will share some practical, manageable, ways teachers can try aspects of a Blended model in their classrooms. After taking a short survey, participants will receive a customized report that compares their current practices and beliefs to the skills needed to facilitate a great blended classroom. From there, we will help participants use these customized report s to identify what parts of their current practice support blended learning and where they might want to deepen their skills.   Teachers will leave the workshop having identified practical skills, concepts and strategies they can try in their classroom.

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Audience: Principals, Lead Teachers (7 Hours, In-Person)

Implementing the instructional shift to blended learning is complex work. This session will prepare principals and leadership teams to anticipate challenges and capitalize on opportunities as they navigate the change. Leaders and leadership teams will leave this session with the tools, templates and timelines they need to begin implementation innovative instructional designs. In this workshop, Alvo facilitate a two part process of instructional strategic planning for innovations like Blended.

Part I: Identifying the Key Elements of a Blended or other Innovative Instructional Design

Areas to be explored and documented for each school/district team include:

• Defining the schools primary academic goals, strengths and areas in need of improvement or deepening
• Defining what “success” looks like and how success will be measured
• Defining the role of the teacher and technology
• Defining the foundational instructional method(s) to be used and implemented over time ie: Blended Learning, Personalized Learning, Project Based Learning, Deeper Learning, Complex Instruction
• ID school resources (financial, facilitates, tech, personal and other)

Part II: Building a Strategic Implementation Plan

Areas to be explored and documented for each school/district team include

• Creating a framework for teacher professional development from on-boarding to on-going support
• Outline process to attain other school/district goals
• Define the process and procedures to support evaluation, peer review
• Define the compensation structure
• Define the budgetary processes to build budgets that can support the instructional needs
• Establishing the different work-plan, dependencies, and priorities
• Exploring free tools that support project management for the non-project manager

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Popular PD Half and Full Day WorkshopTopics Include:  

• Blended 101 “What Does BL Look Like?”
• Developing The Innovator’s Mindset
• Personalized PD Planning for Educators
• Technology Infrastructure for a BL Setting
• Selecting The Appropriate End User Devices
• Selecting On-Line Learning Providers (OLPs)
• Classroom Procedures
• Lesson Planning in a BL Environment
• Teacher Led Small Group Instruction
• Releasing Instructional Authority to Students in Small Group Instruction
• Using Exit Tickets and Other Data to Inform BL Class Instruction
• Moving Towards Personalization
• Integrating PLB into a BL Setting
• Competency Based Grading and Assessment
• Teaching Students to be Innovators in Your Classroom
• How BL Supports Social and Emotional Learning

Interesting in bringing an Alvo facilitated workshop to your district or school?  Contact us below and tell us more about what you need.  A member of the team will contact you within 24 business hours with a variety of options, dates and prices.