Why the Visible Classroom?
At Lamplighters, we are rethinking schools as living, breathing centers of learning and connection that value flexibility and adaptability.
Through our experimental model, we are researching and developing a fully customizable model of education that can empower and transform Jewish education across the spectrum of Jewish community, moving schools of purveyors of information to integral focal points of dynamic community.
What does it accomplish?
One of our cornerstone endeavours is The Visible Classroom. Currently, we have high definition cameras and audio recording devices in every classroom in the school, as well as common spaces. With these cameras in place:
1. Classes are continuously recorded for later review during teacher mentorship and caseby-case meetings;
2. Live classroom videos are projected in main administrative spaces at the school as Lamplighters’ Heads of School,
3. Behavioral Scientist and teachers observe classes, record and collect student and teacher data, and create nuanced strategies for all children.
4. Parents watch their child’ s classroom LIVE while teachers and administrators narrate classroom activity and student behavior through a scientific, pedagogical lens.
5. Students have opportunities to watch recordings of themselves in class, honing skills of self-reaction.
This system allows our school to maintain its rich scientific culture of inquiry, experimen-
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