Named a Tech Savvy Superintendent of the Year by eSchool News, Dr. Christine Johns brings multi-modal education into classrooms at all levels. Dr. Christine Johns serves as superintendent of Utica Community Schools in Michigan, where she has drawn nationwide attention for the blended learning program carried out in the district’s kindergarten through second-grade classrooms. Blended learning expands an instructor's ability to meet each student at his or her level, and to intervene in a relevant way. Relatedly, as it can provide automatic reports of student progress, blended learning can give more individualized assessments while taking less time from instruction to evaluate a student. It also enables an overall increase in the amount of time students spend engaged with material, while offering opportunities for extended learning beyond school hours. Blended learning can have a particularly strong impact on students who are living in poverty or learning the English language, as it can support the language acquisition skills that are crucial for academic success. Interactive learning tools provide for immersive practice with both written and oral language, and their inherent ease of customization means that children can engage at their present stage of ability. The effects of blended learning on student achievement have manifested in a number of studies. In Washington, DC, for example, where children at all grade levels engage in blended learning, students who use the blended learning tools show the highest levels of improvement in both math and reading. Much of these effects may be partially due to the familiarity that children have with electronic resources, and this familiarity also empowers these children as their education and future work environments more seamlessly integrate technology.
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