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Personalizing within the Curriculum: High Quality Instructional Materials as a Lever for Student-Centered Learning

Education Elements

Over the last 10 years, we have seen a significant shift in how educators access and leverage instructional materials to guide instruction. Though it took time, the current market for high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) is strong and presents states, districts, and educators with a different set of challenges.

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4 Game Mechanics Driving Higher Achievement in Math

MIND Research Institute

Access to technology is not enough to improve student learning. A 2015 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that simply having access to computers and other digital devices had no impact on students’ proficiency in reading, math, and science. Education Elements.

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4 Powerful Game Mechanics Driving Higher Achievement in Math

MIND Research Institute

Access to technology is not enough to improve student learning. A study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that access to computers and other digital devices had no impact on students’ proficiency in reading, math, and science. Experience informative feedback. Visual to Symbolic Scaffolding.

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

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Communications Planning for Innovation in Education (Education Elements/TLA). “(Do As part of their strategy, MPUSD launched a live Q&A on Zoom for families with multiple time options as well as meetings in Spanish and English to make them more accessible. Multi-channel communication.

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The Self-Aware Educator -- Developing systems for the educator’s mind

Education Elements

Today we have access to more instructional strategies, procedures, and technologies than ever before.

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Personalized learning can be a tool for equity or a barrier to it

The Hechinger Report

Related: Access does not equal equity. Morgan Tigert, a high school special education teacher in the Corcoran Unified School District in central California, uses personalized learning to teach history, and says it has helped close achievement gaps.

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

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Having two teachers also allows for one to monitor the class to ensure the students are on task while the other one is presenting a whole group lesson. They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. . Co-teaching provides us with ideas we never would have thought of on our own.

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