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Why we love our PD tools

eSchool News

Originally we partnered with Education Elements to provide on-site personalized learning PD and consulting. During their sessions and ongoing support, we witnessed the specific tactics the Education Elements team uses to work together efficiently, so we asked for their guidance on how we could adopt these ways ourselves.

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Framework: Ed Elements Provides Model, Plan, Hand-holding

Edsurge

Separate from its Playbook that helps define a vision, Education Elements , a consulting firm, helps schools and districts design next-generation teaching and learning models. Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools.

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5 edtech tools that take personalized learning to the next level

eSchool News

Highlights of VITAL include a virtual homeschool, blended and online learning across every one of our schools, course recovery to ensure students stay on track to graduate, and course acceleration—all with the goal of preparing students to be future ready. Intentional design.

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Communications Tips for School Leaders

Edsurge

Having worked with almost 200 districts across two organizations, we have learned that communications is one of the areas districts have the least experience with, but which can have the biggest impact. That's why we've designed a communications guide for school leaders and districts, with tips, examples and resources.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. blended learning). Yet these student growth gains are not reflected in most edtech implementations.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Bringing Personalized Learning Into Rural Schools

Edsurge

For example, national data from the past 15 years shows that rural schools are more likely to have STEM teacher vacancies than urban or suburban schools. Could personalized learning and the use of technology fundamentally change rural student outcomes? And when it comes to teachers, the human capital pipeline runs relatively dry.

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How do teachers know if they are getting personalized learning right?

The Hechinger Report

Through working with thousands of teachers and designing hundreds of instructional models, all with the intention of changing what teaching and learning looks like to provide for a more personalized experience, Education Elements identified four core elements that should exist in every personalized learning environment.