Todd Ide
“By offering a better, more effective curriculum, we firmly believe that this will help students to engage in more meaningfully with the curriculum, stay in school, and graduate.”
– Todd Ide
Comstock Public Schools (CPS), in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is seeking a grant to establish three studios that will be used by teachers to produce lessons and content that would allow them to flip their classroom. In addition, the studios would be used to take Comstock's existing traditional curriculum, into a curriculum that can be fully delivered online. The objective is to provide the tools necessary to produce culturally relevant course materials for students that take course(s) online.
This program is based on best practices established by the iNACOL (the International Association for K - 12 Online Learning) and grounded in culturally relevant pedagogy. By offering a better, more effective curriculum, we firmly believe that this will help students to engage in more meaningfully with the curriculum, stay in school, and graduate. The district also believes such a program will help to lure other students who have dropped out of Comstock or neighboring districts to enroll in our program.