S'more Info Session
Watch this S'More Info Session on designing a flipped classroom with Flint. Learn AI lesson planning, curriculum alignment, student engagement, formative assessment, and flipped learning strategies.
Teddy Lane, Customer Success Engineer at Flint
In this S'More Info Session, Teddy Lane explores how teachers can use Flint to design effective flipped classroom experiences that shift content exploration outside the classroom, allowing valuable class time to focus on discussion, collaboration, and deeper learning. Through practical examples and live demonstrations, attendees learn how AI can help students arrive better prepared while giving teachers greater visibility into student understanding before class even begins.
The session walks through two flipped classroom lesson examples—a Common Core English lesson using Animal Farm and an AP Psychology coding activity—to demonstrate how Flint supports standards-aligned lesson design, personalized student guidance, and actionable classroom insights. Teddy also showcases Flint's curriculum tools, AI-powered activity builder, activity analytics, and flexible class chats, illustrating how teachers can quickly create engaging pre-class learning experiences while using student performance data to plan richer in-class instruction.
Content covered in this session includes:
What a flipped classroom is and how it differs from traditional instructional models.
Why flipped learning creates more opportunities for discussion, collaboration, and higher-order thinking during class.
How Flint supports students as an AI tutor while they complete pre-class learning activities independently.
Building standards-aligned flipped classroom activities using Sparky and Flint's AI Activity Builder.
Using existing worksheets, readings, and classroom resources to create AI-guided learning experiences.
Aligning activities with curriculum frameworks such as Common Core and AP courses using Flint's curriculum tools.
Using speech-to-text prompting and conversational lesson design to build activities more efficiently.
Creating reading activities that prepare students for evidence-based classroom discussions.
Leveraging Flint's activity analytics to identify class-wide strengths, misconceptions, and discussion opportunities before students arrive.
Reviewing individual student conversations and AI coaching to better support learners who may need additional guidance.
Designing flipped project-based learning experiences where students create coding projects and other artifacts before class.
Organizing student groups using rubric data and exported performance reports to support differentiated collaboration.
Brainstorming flipped classroom ideas with Sparky using class context and curriculum standards.
Creating follow-up activities based on student performance to extend learning across multiple lessons.
Practical strategies for making flipped classrooms more engaging, scalable, and manageable with AI support.
Slides from the presentation can be found here.
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00:00 Introduction
Teddy Lane welcomes educators from around the world and introduces the session's focus on designing flipped classrooms with Flint, inviting attendees to share what they teach and how they're currently using—or hoping to use—flipped learning in their classrooms.
The session begins with a discussion of the challenges teachers face when transitioning from traditional instruction to a flipped classroom model, particularly ensuring students arrive prepared and ready to participate in meaningful classroom discussions.
Teddy previews the agenda, explaining that attendees will learn the foundations of flipped learning, watch two live lesson-building demonstrations, explore Flint's analytics and curriculum tools, and finish with an interactive Q&A.
01:56 What is a flipped classroom?
Teddy explains the differences between traditional instruction and a flipped classroom, showing how students shift from receiving content during class to exploring new material before class so instructional time can focus on discussion, collaboration, and deeper thinking.
The session explores how learning science supports flipped instruction by encouraging students to revise and refine ideas rather than generating them for the first time during class.
Teddy demonstrates how Sparky serves as an AI tutor outside the classroom, helping students ask questions, build confidence, and overcome common barriers while completing pre-class learning activities independently.
04:14 Building a literature flipped classroom
Using Animal Farm as an example, Teddy walks through the complete process of designing a standards-aligned flipped classroom activity where students gather textual evidence before class and prepare to defend their thinking during classroom discussions.
The demonstration shows how teachers can upload existing worksheets, reading guides, and instructional materials into Flint while using Sparky to transform them into AI-supported learning experiences.
Teddy showcases Flint's curriculum alignment tools, speech-to-text prompting, and collaborative activity builder before demonstrating how activity analytics help teachers identify common misconceptions, review student conversations, and plan more targeted in-class instruction.
The walkthrough concludes by showing how teachers can use class-wide insights and individual student feedback to open lessons with stronger discussions, targeted mini-lessons, and evidence-based collaboration.
21:28 AP Psychology flipped classroom demo
The second demonstration explores a project-based flipped classroom where AP Psychology students build coding simulations that demonstrate operant conditioning before bringing their work to class for peer discussion and revision.
Teddy demonstrates how teachers can edit existing activities, align projects with AP standards, review student artifacts, evaluate rubric performance, and organize heterogeneous discussion groups using Flint's grading and analytics tools.
The session also showcases how teachers can export student performance data, use Sparky to recommend collaborative groupings, and differentiate follow-up activities based on how students performed before class.
29:16 Q&A Session
The audience discussion explores practical strategies for designing flipped classrooms from scratch, including how Sparky can generate lesson ideas, recommend standards-aligned activities, and help teachers brainstorm engaging pre-class learning experiences.
Questions also cover managing curriculum within Flint, creating follow-up activities from previous student work, using activity analysis to guide future instruction, and building multi-day flipped learning sequences that continuously respond to student understanding.
Throughout the discussion, Teddy and Jacob emphasize using Sparky as a collaborative lesson design partner, allowing teachers to iterate on ideas while keeping curriculum goals and student learning at the center of every activity.
39:03 Conclusion
Teddy recaps how Flint supports every stage of the flipped classroom workflow—from designing AI-powered activities and aligning curriculum standards to reviewing student understanding before class and planning richer classroom discussions.
The session concludes with resources for continuing to learn, including webinar recordings, office hours, and the Flint Community, while inviting educators to continue experimenting with flipped learning and share ideas with fellow teachers.
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