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MARCH 5, 2024

Research shows that the number of chronically absent students has nearly doubled , from about 15 percent in the 2018-2019 school year to around 30 percent in 2021-2022. Schools across the country are grappling with fewer students in classrooms, causing a ripple effect on learning, funding, and engagement.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

In their book, they predicted that by 2019, 50% of all high school courses will be online in some blended learning model. Even as of May 2019, there were people pointing out the failure of this prediction.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

During the Education Elements Personalized Learning Summit 2019 , one of our keynote speakers, Principal Baruti Kafele, discussed the achievement gap, the attitude gap, and the role all educators play in addressing both. I was familiar with the achievement gap, but I was unfamiliar with the attitude gap.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Every 4-5 years, I try to pick up a new activity and focus on it until I get to a level of intermediate competency. It started with scuba diving in 2003, snowboarding in 2008, swimming in 2013, and this year was surfing. I took a 3-day boot camp with a private instructor where it turns out I had a different instructor each of the 3 days.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

In the Fall of 2019, I lost my husband. Leading While Grieving In The Wake of COVID-19. After the dust settled from the initial crisis, I was inundated by having to make sense of what had happened, trying to figure out where I would live, and navigating what the future would look like for myself and my son.

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MAY 29, 2019

We were left inspired and engaged – and we know many of you are, too – to continue the hard but meaningful work to reshape education in schools and districts. It's been almost exactly 2 weeks since the 5th Annual Personalized Learning Summit came to an end, and our team still misses the biggest and best PL Summit we've had so far.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

We're counting down the days to this year's 5th annual Personalized Learning Summit! We're so excited to gather together again this year and share the experiences and innovation we've all been developing since the last PL Summit.

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