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Education Predictions for an Unpredictable 2021

Education Elements

In their book, they predicted that by 2019, 50% of all high school courses will be online in some blended learning model. Now at the end of 2020, I’d estimate that +95% of all K-12 students took some form of an online class, and most likely this trend will continue into 2021.

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Reflecting on Your Leadership Through a Year of Unexpected Firsts

Education Elements

2020 was, among many things, a year of firsts. And, of course, the first time for most people to live through a global pandemic and navigate an unprecedented amount of disruption and change. While 2020 was a year of many firsts, there are a few things that we can count on to persist in 2021 and beyond.

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The 4 Biggest Questions You Need to Ask Before You Start District Strategic Planning

Education Elements

We labor over these plans—sometimes over the course of 12 to 24 months—dreaming up the path ahead and detailing the resources we’ll need.Unfortunately, once we’re set to go, we find the situation has changed before we’ve gotten started. Policies have evolved and buy-in has dropped off.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Also via The Hechinger Report : “The future of proficiency-based education.” ” Digital Promise and Education Elements have released a “ toolkit ” on competency-based education. ” Testing, Testing… Via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution : “ Brad Pitt , Michael B.