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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. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

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5 edtech tools that take personalized learning to the next level

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In the Putnam County (TN) School System— a rural school district with 23 schools spread across 400 miles—our personalized learning approach has allowed us to reshape education for students on a variety of fronts. Canvas is our learning management system (LMS) and provides a framework for our blended learning environment.

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

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In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 Probably not.

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A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning

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After five years of teaching, most recently as a technology teacher at an elementary school, I was recruited for a role outside of the classroom. In 2017, I began a new position as the director of personalized learning at a public charter school serving students in grades 7-12 in Phoenix. That isn’t good for buy-in.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education last week outlined changes to civil rights investigations that advocates fear will mean less consistent findings of systemic discrimination at colleges.” ” More on lawsuits against the Department of Education relating to Title IX in the courts section below.