The Modern Classroom Blog
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A Comprehensive Guide to Guided Notes
Notes are an essential element to student learning and success. Guided notes can increase the impact of self-paced videos for students of all learning levels.
Inside Miguel Melchor’s Classroom at Clinton Elementary
What happens when a district prioritizes personalized learning and school leadership support educator collaboration? You get a 6th grade team that works together to build out the necessary supports to meet the needs of every student.
Methods of Measuring Mastery
How are you measuring mastery? And just as importantly, how do your students know what is expected of them to effectively demonstrate mastery? Dive into six examples from real classrooms.
Inside a Modern Classroom with Michelle Gross, 2026 Kentucky Teacher of the Year
Meet Michelle Gross, 2026 Kentucky Teacher of the Year and Modern Classroom educator.
Public Pacing Trackers
What are the implications of displaying student progress publicly? Let’s explore what educators should keep in mind when using this tool to support student learning.
Advancing Student-Centered Math Instruction in North Carolina with Modern Classrooms Project and The Innovation Project
Modern Classrooms Project is proud to announce a new two-year partnership with The Innovation Project, an elite group of North Carolina superintendents.
Optimize Canvas for your Secondary Modern Classroom
We collected the best practices from secondary educators using Canvas as their Learning Management System (LMS) while implementing a Modern Classroom.
Optimize Canvas for your Elementary Modern Classroom
We collected the best practices from elementary educators using Canvas as their Learning Management System (LMS) while implementing a Modern Classroom.
Adding Inquiry to My Modern Classroom Through Building Thinking Classrooms
Joseph Lombardi shares how he combines a Modern Classroom with Building Thinking Classrooms.
3 Ways to Implement Self-Pacing from a Shelby County Educator
Toni Rose met with Ms. Pollard, a Shelby County educator who has a self-paced classroom, and discovered some of her best practices for shifting away from lectures to a self-paced classroom and here is what we learned.
3 Lessons from Baltimore Public Schools
Community Engagement Manager Toni Rose Deanon visited Baltimore City Public Schools this fall and walked away with so many great tips from BCPS educators, we just had to share!
3 Tips from Hoover City Classrooms
Community Engagement Manager Toni Rose Deanon visited Hoover City, Alabama this fall and walked away with so many great tips for educators, we just had to share!
Assignments vs. Mastery Checks: What’s the Difference?
Assignments and mastery checks are both important components of Modern Classrooms. But what’s the difference?
Revision & Reassessment Policies
Here are the ways in which Modern Classroom Educators in different grade levels explain revision and reassessment to their students.
Your New Progress Tracker
The heart of a well-run Modern Classroom is its progress-tracking system - teachers and students both need tools that make it easy to see and update their progress. Now introducing: your new progress tracker, featuring Wavio!
TeachFlows: Your AI-Powered Learning Companion
We’ve partnered with TeachFlows to create an AI-powered tool to support your Modern Classroom.
Why Americans Hate Math - and What to Do About It
Equipping teachers across the globe with the support they need to innovate in education.
Literature Review: A Review of the Elements of the MCP Educational Model
Our newest literature review incorporates the latest research and showcases the growing body of evidence that supports the Modern Classrooms model.
Modern Classrooms: A Global Movement
We’ve heard from educators around the globe about the way that Modern Classrooms are meeting every student’s needs. Here are their stories.
Teacher Tip: Motivation and Engagement Strategies
Modern Classroom Educator Laura Domingo shares the strategies she uses in her classroom to support student motivation and engagement.