Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

Take the time to come up with a strategy before you dive into tactics - you will be much more effective. Too many communications strategies focus on what a district is going to tell its stakeholders. For many, seeing is believing and your strategy needs to include ways to bring this work to life. Listen, don’t just talk.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 10, 2019

Seven years ago, a wide-scale digital learning conference was unheard of because the majority of school districts across the country weren’t equipped with the infrastructure or technology to implement a robust digital curriculum. We must continue to debunk the myth that technology can replace teachers.

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 29, 2017

Access to technology is not enough to improve student learning. Other studies on various education technology programs show varying amounts of impact. Why do we see such a range in the impact of education technology on student test scores? Personalized Learning Paths.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

“At first we thought this was just going to be a hoop we have to jump through in order to get these devices,” admits Daniel Hodge, a personalized learning coach at Barnwell Elementary School in Fulton County, echoing the concerns and confusion shared by other Fulton County educators in an interview with EdSurge.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. At the beginning of the year, we sat down with our respective standards to discuss strategy. They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. . Two teachers, two classrooms, one super-class.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Separate from its Playbook that helps define a vision, Education Elements , a consulting firm, helps schools and districts design next-generation teaching and learning models. The Ed Elements consultants help craft plans that work with their users’ needs and budgets. Tool: Education Elements Puts It All in One Place.

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Education Elements

APRIL 13, 2016

Here in part four of my virtual school blog series , I offer 25 things to consider for your virtual program’s success, grouped under 5 main categories: Strategy, Design, Curriculum, Support and Operations. My goal is to help you identify the key factors that can make or break the success of that program.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. So, what can be done? So how do you choose?

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Education Elements

AUGUST 19, 2015

Today we have access to more instructional strategies, procedures, and technologies than ever before.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2018

After five years of teaching, most recently as a technology teacher at an elementary school, I was recruited for a role outside of the classroom. My vision initially focused mostly on developing strategy for change management. That isn’t good for buy-in.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Through working with thousands of teachers and designing hundreds of instructional models, all with the intention of changing what teaching and learning looks like to provide for a more personalized experience, Education Elements identified four core elements that should exist in every personalized learning environment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

The consulting firm Education Elements designated four factors as the keys to successfully integrating a personalized learning model, based on its experience with 100 districts, 300 schools and 300,000 students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rural schools have received little attention in national conversations around education reform—even though they serve nearly 1 in 5 students in America. Could personalized learning and the use of technology fundamentally change rural student outcomes? Perhaps—but there’s a problem. . Perhaps, but there’s a problem. How It Could Help.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Leaders and educators across the country can take comfort in the fact that they are not alone in their challenges, and that we can come together in overcoming them. Amy Jenkins is COO of Education Elements, and Cary Kelly is district development associate of Education Elements.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

As Education Elements has worked with districts across the country, we’ve found a few simple guidelines can help make the visioning process invigorating and inspiring rather than routine or frustrating. Long, awkward silences may follow periods of disagreement. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

As Education Elements has worked with districts across the country, we’ve found a few simple guidelines can help make the visioning process invigorating and inspiring rather than routine or frustrating. Long, awkward silences may follow periods of disagreement. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Ah yes, a giant technology company deciding what “good manners” sounds like.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Foreign faculty and researchers traveling to Canada to work on projects at public universities and affiliated research institutions will be allowed to stay for up to 120 days without a work permit as part of a new Global Skills Strategy announced Monday by Canada’s government.”

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