Supporting ESSER Priorities
ESSER funds help state agencies, schools, and districts address disruptions caused by COVID-19. By giving students unlimited access to learning, our model empowers leaders to respond to COVID-19 disruptions by:
Addressing Unfinished Learning
Accelerating Growth
Ensuring Equity
Addressing Unfinished Learning:
We train educators in a blended, self-paced, mastery-based approach to teaching. Students in Modern Classrooms have the time they need to master each successive skill, and can continue learning through teacher-created videos outside of the classroom. This differentiated and self-directed approach can help every student recover unfinished learning from recent disruptions.
Source: Wolf, B., Eisinger, J., Ross, S. (2020). The Modern Classrooms Project: Survey Results for the 2019-20 School Year. Towson, MD: Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins University.
Accelerating Growth:
In blended, self-paced, mastery-based classrooms, there are no limits to how much students can learn. As soon as students master one skill, they can move on to the next -- there’s no need to wait for the teacher or classmates to catch up. This accelerates student learning and gives every student the chance to excel.
Featured by the Department of Education’s COVID-19 Handbook
Our Edutopia video “demonstrates how educators can use technology to use their own time more purposefully in the classroom and implement instructional approaches that allow for student self-direction, personalization, and collaboration.”
Source: Roadmap to Reopening Safely and Meeting All Students’ Needs
Ensuring Equity:
All students -- including those who receive special education services, are experiencing homelessness, are emergent bilingual learners, and more -- deserve classrooms that respond to their unique needs. Our blended, self-paced, mastery-based approach gives students unrestricted access to learning, whether or not service and attendance disruptions take place. Because teachers record their own videos, they remain connected to students even when those students aren’t in school.
Featured in Learning Policy Institute’s Guide to Restarting and Reinventing School
“Student-centered blended learning models that tap new uses of technology across home and school spaces can, when they guide purposeful use of teacher time, increase equity in learning while offering productive models in this new environment.”
What Now?
Check your state’s ESSER page for more information on application and distribution timelines. To use ESSER Funding for work with the Modern Classrooms Project:
Explore options for School and District Partnerships.
Complete our Partnership Interest Form to speak with our team about how we can support you.