2. “Other than the fact that
we only meet two days a
week, we seem to learn
differently…”
3. What Makes BLE
US History Different?
• Thematic and Comparative
• Seamless, Connected Classroom
• Variety of Texts
4. How Is Online Space Used?
• Providing background information
• Beginning conversations
• Sharing work
• Checking for understanding
5. How Is Classroom Time Used?
• Clarifying material and addressing
misunderstandings
• Continuing discussion
• Applying prior knowledge/skills to
analysis of new sources
• Presenting independent work
6.
7.
8. What Does BLE Make Possible?
Digging deeper into
Time to analyze
the why, instead of
and reflect
just focusing on facts
Opportunity to learn
Choice of what outside the required
and how to curriculum
present
9. Don’t be afraid of it. It’s okay to stray
from the accepted standard of
always having class in class. We still
have class, we just don’t spend all of
it actually in the classroom itself.
