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Personalized Learning Requires Flexibility: An Update to Education Elements’ Core 4

Education Elements

I got to choose the topic and knew that I’d have to develop a thesis, and I knew the defense of that thesis would have to be sourced from far more than textbooks - it had me scouring local libraries and whatever I could find on Webcrawler at the time (my friend told me about a site called Google that was pretty good but I thought the name was weird (..)

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What I Learned About Teams from Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro

Education Elements

Google committed an entire research team to answering the question: What makes a team effective? And, leaders right here at Education Elements have compiled some of their learnings in The New Team Habits. There has been a lot of research done on what makes teams great.

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Your Ticket to More Effective Lessons

A Principal's Reflections

Like many things in education, elements of ITIP still have value depending on how they are used. The example I provided here is just one, but Google “exit tickets” and you’ll see a number of examples. If exit tickets are new to you, that’s great, too—what an opportunity! Don’t reinvent the wheel.

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Flexible Content & Tools: Part 4 - An Interview With a Design Expert for Google's Education Tools

Education Elements

Personalized learning represents a shift in how we teach students, a reflection of our changing educational landscape, and an acknowledgement that the world we must prepare our students for is different than the one we grew up in. One of the biggest ways education has already changed is in the content and tools students engage with.

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3 Keys to Creating a More Agile School District

Education Elements

In 2012, Google began studying how workers can transform productivity by examining the perfect team. Like many organizations, Google believed that putting the best people together would create the highest level of productivity.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Noah Dougherty, a senior design principal at the education consulting firm Education Elements, wrote in a blog post last week that “the biggest shift virtual learning requires is flexibility and a recognition that the controlled structure of a school is not replicable online.” PearDeck, Google and GoGuardian are among them.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

Edsurge

Communications Planning for Innovation in Education (Education Elements/TLA). “(Do ENGAGE EQUITABLY: Communication Resources for Schools at a Time of COVID-19 & Beyond (Brooklyn Lab Charter School/Donavan Group). Do not) underestimate your community’s desire to hear from you and to connect with them early and often.

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