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How Education Elements Guides Districts in Creating Environments that Personalize Learning

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Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. What They Do Anthony Kim likes to describe the Education Elements team as the “sherpas” of personalized learning. Stay tuned!

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

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of Probably not.

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

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As educators, we always encourage our students to work together; we promise them two heads are better than one. But with so much happening in our individual classrooms, we teachers often don’t take our own good advice. Although we’d love to have one huge classroom, we just don’t have the space. Last year at.

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‘Where We Went Wrong’ Atlanta Educators Reflect on ‘Failed’ Tech Implementation

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“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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How Mastery Design Collaborative Helps Schools Redesign their Models to Personalize Learning

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MDC offers support in three ways: through strategic planning, professional development for classroom teachers, and a program called Reimagine School Collaborative. After parting ways with Education Elements, Tiang and Bolar wanted to continue to consult with schools and districts, focusing exclusively on working as a service provider.

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Saturday is the Online Global Student Conference - "STEM + Entrepreneurship" (plus we make our call for volunteers!)

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Assisting teachers and administrators in understanding how STEM and entrepreneurship impact learning both in and out of the classroom. He is the recipient of SPJ’s 2015 Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award. Their work can be seen in The New York Times, NPR and in their own iOS/Android app. Evan Wesley (Thirst Project).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.”