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What We Know For Sure: Three Practices Every Innovative Leader Can Try

Education Elements

"We all get caught up in the business of doing, and sometimes lose our place in the flow” (O Magazine, August 2011). Recently, we were spinning in circles trying to figure out a new process for an internal role we stepped into when Jason shared a way we might reframe our conversation.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. Probably not,” says Kim, in an interview with EdSurge.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

The Hume Foundation was the first funder of Innosight Institute’s Education Practice, the think tank established by Clayton Christensen as well as Michael Horn to promulgate disruptive solutions to both education and health care challenges, and I became a founding board member.

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[PL Summit Series] Go Big or Go Home! Personalized Learning Summit Workshop, Yuma Elementary School District One

Education Elements

In a word they make education easier and more absorbing. Learning and life become more seamless” (Fullan, May 2011). These include, “engagement; entertainment; ease of access to information and data; group work; humanity; social relevance, and so on.

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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

Edsurge

She achieved National Board Certification in 2011. . They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. . Brandi Todd has been an elementary teacher for sixteen years. Amanda Cooper has been in the classroom for 18 years: the first eight in 2nd grade and the remainder as a 5th grade teacher.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes. blended learning).

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