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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. As of spring 2016, the company has supported 100 districts nationally, representing 300 schools and 300K students. 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. If you are giving a school a technology that they cannot use—or it is not really going to make a difference in reading scores or school performance—then it is not the right input, not the right system.

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6 lessons our district learned from our move to blended learning

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For the next two years, we had 13 teachers experiment with innovative instructional models and new ways to leverage technology to enhance instruction. That’s why we began working with Education Elements in 2016. After the pilot, we saw how blended learning could help meet our students’ needs.

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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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Prior to launching the nonprofit organization, both co-founders worked together at Education Elements , consulting with districts around designing and implementing blended learning models. By November 2016, more than 50 schools will have completed the Reimagine School program. .

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

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Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. . Smath was born out of a realization that the old way of doing things wasn’t working. Benefits for students—and teachers.

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6 things this district learned from a move to blended learning

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For the next two years, we had 13 teachers experiment with innovative instructional models and new ways to leverage technology to enhance instruction. That’s why we began working with Education Elements in 2016. After the pilot, we saw how blended learning could help meet our students’ needs.