Why an Educator is Flipping Colorado’s Classrooms

Chemistry teacher Jennifer Gray helps tenth graders Karless Travis, 15, and Cyrus Ford, 16, understand how to name acids and write their formulas Feb. 6 at Vista Ridge High School in Falcon School District 49. Gray’s classrooms emphasize coaching, not lecturing. She follows the flipped classroom model, which leverages instructional technologies to compile electronic archives of video lectures. Digital innovations are helping her transition assignments typically considered homework into classwork.