This article describes an Oakland Unified schools program of "blended learning" that is designed to reach students who are academically all over the map. Blended learning combines brick-and-mortar schooling with online education "with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace" of learning. The program was started with pilot teachers using the "station rotation model," where students move between computers, teacher-led discussions, and sometimes, group projects or independent desk work. Principals, and teachers within the schools that implemented blended learning are committed to spending extra time after school each week on collaboration and training. While they understand it will take some time to determine how well blended learning works in the Oakland schools, they wanted to try "something new." Even though most teachers reported that students were highly engaged when working with digital content and were better able to learn the material, only one-fifth of pilot teachers said their students did better on benchmark tests the first year. Now in its second year, teachers report growing numbers are truly innovating at their school sites and pushing their peers to both play and learn alongside their students.