Cloned Classroom Model for every educator
The Cloned Classroom Model is an in-class instructional framework in which the teacher pre-records direct instruction for delivery during the class period, simultaneously providing consistent content delivery to the whole class while freeing the teacher to function as a real-time facilitator, interventionist, and relationship builder — all within the same lesson.
Three Roles of the Cloned Teacher:
The Broadcaster
Video-you delivers instruction consistently, without interruption, to every student at the same time. No student misses the model. No behavior stops the lesson.
The Facilitator
Physical-you moves through the room during instruction, checking guided notes, monitoring engagement, and redirecting off-task behavior quietly.
The Interventionist
Because instruction is handled, you can sit with the student who needs you now, in the moment, before the misconception cements.
The Cloned Classroom Model isn't just a teaching strategy.
It has a name, a definition, a set of pillars, a clear theory of change, and a distinction from existing models in the literature.
Differentiation Was Always the Goal
My evaluation after the first quarter of school said “differentiate more”.
I had thirty-two students the period I was observed. Five reading levels. Three IEPs, two 504s, kids who'd missed the day the whole concept began, and one who finished the warm-up before I finished sharing the lesson welcome and plan for the day.
I knew exactly who needed what. I could have named every gap in that room from memory.
And I was standing at the front, delivering the same explanation to all of them at once — because that was “the way teaching was supposed to be”.
Here is the part nobody says out loud: differentiation was never something teachers refused to do. It was something the structure of the classroom made nearly impossible to do. You cannot be the voice delivering the lesson and the person kneeling next to the kid who just got lost in the same minute. Same body. Same minute. So we choose. Pause the lesson as an appropriate interventionist would do for each student every time or continue the lesson at its pace to “weed out” the learners that cannot keep up to make a note on addressing them later.
Article 9 of the Cloned Classroom Model series is about the day that I developed a better choice for me.
CCM and Special Education
CCM and Special Education: Why the Cloned Classroom Model Works for Every Learner in the Room
When Every Student Arrives with the Same Foundation
A bathroom break shouldn't derail a lesson. Learn how the Cloned Classroom Model™ ensures every student starts with a solid foundation, even when life interrupts.
