We empower educators to meet every student’s needs.

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Our Model

Our research-backed instructional model serves students at all levels of understanding, both inside and outside the classroom. We’ve seen it work across all grade levels and subject areas, all over the world.

What We Do

We offer three different pathways for professional development using the Modern Classroom model:

Our Impact

Modern Classroom teachers feel more effective, and their students feel more capable.

Teacher Impacts

Student Impacts

For the past three years, we have contracted with Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Research and Reform in Education to measure our model’s impacts on teachers. To see these full reports and findings, please visit our Impact page. The graph above presents our own internal analysis of our own student and teacher survey data.

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We empower educators to meet every student’s needs.

The Modern Classrooms Project empowers educators to build classrooms that respond to every student’s needs. We lead a movement of educators in implementing a self-paced, mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth.

Our co-founders, Kareem Farah and Robert Barnett, met as math teachers at a Title I high school in Washington, DC. Facing chronic absenteeism and a wide range of skill levels within each class, they worked together to develop an instructional model that would empower every student — regardless of background, ability, or attendance — to master key content and skills.

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Our Free Online Course provides a comprehensive overview of our instructional model, along with tools and strategies you can use to launch a Modern Classroom of your own. The course is completely self-paced, and you’ll receive a certificate upon completion.

Free blended, self-paced, mastery-based PD, built by teachers.

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) The Modern Classrooms Project was born out of a PLC — two teachers working together to find common solutions. To support fellow teacher leaders in sharing our model with their own colleagues, we now offer: Free Online Course. We encourage PLC leaders to use our Free Online Course as a starting point for discussions, and to set completion goals for PLC participants. Meeting Slides and Agendas. We've prepared draft meeting slides and a draft PLC agenda for PLC Leaders. We encourage PLC leaders to customize them for their own school communities. Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) The Modern Classrooms Project was born out of a PLC — two teachers working together to find common solutions. To support fellow teacher leaders in sharing our model with their own colleagues, we now offer: Free Online Course. We encourage PLC leaders to use our Free Online Course as a starting point for discussions, and to set completion goals for PLC participants. Meeting Slides and Agendas. We've prepared draft meeting slides and a draft PLC agenda for PLC Leaders. We encourage PLC leaders to customize them for their own school communities.