Education Elements

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Take a casual stroll through the past predictions I made about education, leading up to 2024. Over the last few years, I've called several major trends in education that hit the nail on the head. They've become a big deal in classrooms everywhere, just as I anticipated. You'll see they were pretty spot-on. Digital skills?

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I recently had the opportunity to design and build a maker space for educators to implement making and tinkering in their libraries and classrooms. The most important thing I learned is the vital role a maker mindset can have on students in stretching their critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration skills.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 13, 2016

We spend a lot of time on our blog talking about personalized learning and how we work with districts and schools to create new, student-centered learning environments.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

We spend a lot of time on our blog talking about personalized learning and how we work with districts and schools to create new, student-centered learning environments.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Here at the Bring Your Own Thoughts blog, it’s always been our goal to create space for a wide range of perspectives and experiences so that as many educators as possible can find content which is useful and relatable to their own challenges and goals. We’re proud to say that every year, the B.Y.O.T.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Imagine a new educational paradigm: virtual tutors provide real-time assistance, ensuring no students are left behind. Interactive simulations and virtual reality experiences engage learners in immersive educational adventures, making lessons come alive.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigning aspects of their model, and what types of support they need along the way. Stay tuned!

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Education Elements

MARCH 28, 2023

The bright morning sun floods in through the yawning glass windows and casts long shadows in the front of the classroom. My colleague and I and about ten-odd teachers sit huddled at the desks near the back; some of them are poring over resources on their screens, others using markers, pens, and paper cutouts on small chart paper.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 24, 2018

It was about a year ago that I took the plunge and implemented personalized learning in my classroom. That decision turned out to be one of the best I’ve made in my sixteen years as an educator.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Her Instructional Theory into Practice (ITIP) model helped me identify the strategies I would use on a daily basis to help my students learn. These included the anticipatory set (hook), reviewing prior learning, checking for understanding, forms of practice, and closure. Think about this for a second.

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JUNE 24, 2020

The abrupt shift to distance learning directly challenged the knowledge, mindsets, and skills of our teacher workforce this Spring. And as a new school year approaches and the global pandemic remains, educators are bracing for these abrupt and temporary changes to make take root.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 16, 2016

public schools to attend an Apple Distinguished Schools Day where Natick shared its blended learning approach with other schools and districts. First, a quick definition: According to the Online Learning Consortium blended learning means “a portion of the traditional face-to-face instruction is replaced by web-based online learning.”.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Regardless of where students are physically learning this school year, educators must orient their instruction towards distance learning. It is important to note that highly-effective distance learning doesn’t just happen with the flip of a switch.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Reflection and goal-setting is the simplest way to begin personalizing learning because it mirrors a practice we engage in every day of our lives. And it’s one reason why reflection and goal-setting is often the first step educators take to personalize learning. It is one primary format in which we aim to improve ourselves.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Measuring your personalized learning journey is now easier than ever with the new Kiddom + Education Elements partnership. Personalized learning is a buzz phrase we hear often in education. This pedagogical style is inspirational, and may serve students well, but it often lacks direction.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Student engagement is one of the most overused terms in education. We talk about engagement in the classroom, between peers, with families, with the content, and now, virtual engagement. Engagement is certainly important if we talk about it this much, but what does it really mean?

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Education Elements

JULY 13, 2016

At Education Elements we try to walk the walk of personalized learning. We believe teachers should be designers of their classrooms. We help districts visualize their personalized learning journey. We strive to make our workshops interactive, upbeat, and fun. We encourage singing , dancing , and selfie-brations.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Have you ever stopped and looked around your school, your classroom, and asked yourself: “How did this all happen? In year one of being a personalized learning school, I have had many reflective moments like this at Trailside Middle School. Teachers have assumed the role of facilitator and students are owners of their learning.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

In Forest Hills School District (FHSD) there have been pockets of innovation and personalized learning (PL) for some time. However, when the district came to Education Elements, they sought to scale PL in each and every classroom, district-wide. To accomplish this goal, the district strategically slowed down in year one.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Through most of the spring and summer, we at Education Elements have intensely focused on helping school districts prepare for returning to school. Here’s what we learned: To explore this topic further, we convened a group of school and district leaders in Texas to participate in a design sprint.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

This upcoming school year is going to require a level of flexibility from all parties involved and we want to support the parents and guardians as they collaboratively navigate the year with their child’s educators.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Having worked in Title 1 schools for almost a decade, I had the privilege of being surrounded by language learners in all my classrooms. Students are the greatest assets to diverse learning environments, and they bring many experiences, cultural backgrounds, and languages to their classrooms.

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Education Elements

MAY 4, 2016

Actually it’s about totally the opposite - it’s about how personalized learning approaches are unique and how what personalized learning looks like depends on what the district is like….it it depends on their own DNA. It was an eye-opening experience.

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Education Elements

MAY 17, 2021

One of the best things about living your professional life in education is the assumption implicit in the field that everyone has something valuable to contribute, and there is always an opportunity to level up.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Our Education Elements partners had seen this before. In the Kenai, we navigate our waters with practiced skill, but we are talking about changing our paradigm…We are now operating under the belief that everyone in our organization deserves their learning and growth to be personalized. This IS possible!

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MARCH 18, 2020

While we believe safety is the priority, we know that loss of classroom time could further achievement gaps due to paused learning. Since we are an education organization of primarily remote workers, we have a few tips we think you can utilize to maximize your time for those meetings or courses that cannot afford to be paused.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Each year we receive hundreds of questions along the lines of, “Okay…so what does personalized learning actually look like?”. One is that personalized learning always involves these core four elements - targeted instruction, data-driven decisions, flexible content, and student reflection and ownership.

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Education Elements

JULY 28, 2020

Here we are, looking down the barrel of another stretch of at-home learning. We always knew that it was likely not “if” but “when” we’d be back here, but the fact that many districts are announcing remote learning from day one has caught us all by surprise.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. million to the firm for personalized-learning consulting services. To help teachers implement the learning model, schools and districts are increasingly paying top-dollar for specialized consultants.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 18, 2017

At Education Elements, we are proud that our team members model the 21st Century skills we encourage in the classrooms we serve. As we continue to see the positive impact of our work, school and district leaders commonly ask us one thing about our team - what does Education Elements look for in a hire?

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, implementing initiatives can make all the difference between thriving and merely surviving. Whether you're a district leader, a campus administrator, or a classroom teacher, mastering this art is essential for achieving your goals and driving positive change within your learning community.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 11, 2020

Learning is most powerful when students feel valued, honored, and empowered. The teachers who leave the greatest lasting impact on their students are the ones who see them for who they are, often before the students even see this themselves.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Late last year we published a blog post on new evolutions on top of Station Rotation blended learning models that we’d been hearing about from educators in our Blended Learning Universe (BLU). Our friends at Education Elements didn’t agree fully with the way we characterized these shifts.

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MARCH 22, 2017

The biggest frustration I hear from teachers who are implementing competency-based education (CBE, also known as mastery-based education or learning) is that students' motivation drops considerably when they realize they can retake tests until they get a passing score. A classroom paradigm shift has to take place.

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Education Elements

MARCH 5, 2024

Schools across the country are grappling with fewer students in classrooms, causing a ripple effect on learning, funding, and engagement. Because of the correlation between attendance and learning, this uptick in absenteeism has grave consequences for student growth. The research results imply that an additional 6.5

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Education Elements

JULY 12, 2017

Through my work as a classroom teacher and now as an education consultant, I have noticed a few common barriers to collaboration and identified ways that school district leaders and classroom teachers can overcome them. With so many benefits to a collaborative environment, why is it so challenging?

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JUNE 14, 2017

As an increasing number of schools and classrooms shift to personalized learning across the country, educators face many questions. Many of these questions focus on the need to define the purpose of curriculum, digital content, and tools in a personalized learning setting.

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