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The Seton Blended Learning Network is an innovative network of twelve urban Catholic schools in seven cities driven by results, smart collaboration, and character formation that serves over 3,000 students, 98% of whom are minorities and over two-thirds of whom qualify for the federal meals program. Seton provides partner schools with the know-how, training, and fundraising required to convert to blended learning. Our goal is to substantially improve the academic performance and reduce the operating costs of financially struggling urban Catholic schools.
If you are applying as a network, please consolidate information into each upload. For example, if you are including "evidence of the school's academic success over the past two years" you may use one file that outlines each school's success or one file that outlines the network's overall success.
Note: The planned consolidation of two schools will qualify as a candidate for the Seton Blended Learning Network.
In order to apply, you must register to the right of this posting. You are required to submit the following 5 attachments. 1) Cover letter detailing your interest in the Seton Blended Learning Network.
2) Enrollment trends: Please upload a document containing your enrollment data for the past three years and your best enrollment projections for 2018-2019.
3) In no more than 3 pages, please explain why you want your school to convert to this model and join the Seton Blended Learning Network. Please include signed evidence of the principal's support for this initiative, and evidence of similar support from the person/board to whom the principal reports.
4) Please provide evidence of the school's academic results over the past two years and make sure to include scores form a nationally-normed standardized test.*
5) In no more than 3 pages, please describe what is not currently going well at your school and what you would like to change in order to improve it.
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What is the Seton Blended Learning Network?
The Seton Blended Learning Network is an innovative network of 12 urban Catholic schools in seven cities driven by results, smart collaboration, and character formation that serves over 3,000 students, 98% of whom are minorities and over two-thirds of whom qualify for the federal meals program. Seton provides partner schools with the know-how, training, and fundraising required to convert to blended learning. Our goal is to substantially improve the academic performance and reduce the operating costs of financially struggling urban Catholic schools.
What is blended learning?
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Education provides a good overview of blended learning. “Blended learning is not the same as technology-rich instruction. It goes beyond one-to-one computers and high-tech gadgets. Blended learning involves leveraging the Internet to afford each student a more personalized learning experience, including increased student control over the time, place, path, and/or pace of learning.” Blended learning combines a traditional, bricks-and-mortar educational experience with on-line learning. This video of our first blended learning school showcases Seton’s rotational blended learning model.
What types of schools does the Seton Blended Learning Network serve?
The Seton Blended Learning Network partners with Catholic schools serving a large percentage of students who qualify for the federal free or reduced-price lunch program and are seeking to serve more traditionally underserved students. |