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Redesign Learning Experiences by Rethinking Time with Competency-Based Education

Education Elements

Regardless of how we perceive time or how much time has actually elapsed since school days shifted from 3D to 2D learning, we know that our students have coped with this complex time in a myriad of ways. Some have thrived, others have been barely keeping it together. Still others we might have lost touch with altogether.

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Making Your Next Pivot? Decide Deliberately and Communicate Effectively

Education Elements

These actions make sense to avoid the complexity that’s being thrown their way, however, it prevents organizations from using the time to lean in and learn from the experience.

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Creative Solutions for Continuity of Learning: Navigating the Needs of Students, Parents/Guardians, and Teachers

Education Elements

For the uninitiated, this movie is about an atypical learning experience, in which a high-school student joins a rock-band for a road trip as he attempts to learn how to be a journalist. His muse, Penny Lane, has a signature line, “It’s all happening!” And now, it’s all happening!

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Slow Pivots — What’s Driving the Change to Reimagine School Schedules?

Education Elements

School schedules and use of time are one of the few remaining relics of the industrialized learning model. Even when most schools moved to virtual learning in March 2020, many organizations replicated the existing bell schedule and instructed teachers to move their onsite instruction online.

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It’s Elementary: Targeted K12 Leadership Development for Tackling Big Problems

Education Elements

As we write this, we are thinking back to the last “normal” month in 2020 before COVID-19 arrived in full force. A sampling of headlines from Education Weekly in February 2020 highlight social and emotional learning , the role of technology in education, and the importance of effective school leadership.

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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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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

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Some districts are using fully remote learning models to start, some are opting for hybrid models, while others are implementing new safety protocols to begin in-person learning. Twenty-four districts have said they will be sharing data about students’ learning to families.

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