Pease Elementary credits the use of adaptive learning through AI software for its reintroduction of three grade levels.
ODESSA, Texas — Blended learning is bringing the traditional classroom and modern technology together.
“Blended learning is getting your traditional brick and mortar, you’re building, you’re teaching, you’re up at the front of the room and taking an online piece of adaptive learning and then just combining the two,” said Ashley Rojo, the blended learning specialist at the Ector County Independent School District (ECISD).
The 2023-2024 school year marked the first time Pease Elementary School implemented blended learning into all 23 of its classrooms, including prekindergarten.
This school year, Pease Elementary reintroduced three grade levels with help from blended learning.
“I think that we were able to bring back our 3rd, 4th and 5th [grades] because we were having success in Pre-K12 because of blended learning. A lot of that is because …