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How Student Centered Learning Supports Learning Loss Recovery Efforts

Education Elements

Recent data suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic halted more than two decades of momentum in math and reading achievements. Another nationwide survey indicates that K-12 reading skills across the country have dropped to a thirty-year low on average.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Unequal internet access is just the tip of the iceberg of a massive equity crisis facing U.S. schools should coronavirus force education online. The data just don’t support optimism. According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home.

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Going Back to School to Learn About Blended Learning

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Education Elements offers personalized learning consulting services and can help schools walk through the process. From the perspective of administrators, working with startups gives you direct access to the creators of the product who want and need help improving it. So that means more blended learning.

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

Edsurge

In 84 of 124 reopening plans (68 percent) analyzed by the Center for Reinventing Public Education, a research organization affiliated with the University of Washington, the district is offering guidance or training to parents on how to help students learn at home. I attended the virtual boardroom and town halls. Multi-channel communication.

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Framework: Ed Elements on the ‘Core Four’ Foundations of Personalized Learning

Edsurge

The consulting firm Education Elements designated four factors as the keys to successfully integrating a personalized learning model, based on its experience with 100 districts, 300 schools and 300,000 students. Data-driven decisions Teachers use data to inform instructional decisions.

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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

Technology can make this growing body of research accessible and practical so developers and educators can use it to truly support the full diversity of learners. Digital Promise and Education Elements collaborated to catalog key CBE choices with over 20 school districts this school year in an online playbook.

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

Edsurge

Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Some students constructed model airplanes and tested their flights while observing how changing one variable, such as weight, could change the data. . They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. .

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