Education Elements

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Parents are asking for evidence that these new strategies are improving their child’s education. The Education Elements team hears these questions a lot, so we shared our thoughts in the blog post, “ Charting Your Personalized Learning Course.” How do you respond? If you haven’t read it yet, go ahead. I’ll wait.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

As Gisele Huff, executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation, observed recently, the book served as a vehicle to change the dialogue in education from school improvement to transforming schools through innovation. When we published Disrupting Class in 2008, we had no idea what it would help unleash.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In this blog post, Amy Creeden, Superintendent of Schools for the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, about 65 miles northwest of New York City in Middletown, New York, shares three lessons her district learned through the first year of implementing their five-year strategic plan.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They also know that materials, while a critical lever, are only one piece of the necessary elements for shifting teacher practice and improving student outcomes.

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Education Elements

JULY 20, 2016

For anyone who attended the Education Elements Personalized Learning Summit this May, you had a chance to attend a workshop focusing on the Core Four. Get ready for a blog post with a twist -- and read it with your best Insanity / ESPN voice….

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While a bilingual classroom is preferable for language learners of all kinds, this blog offers support for teachers delivering instruction in English in classrooms with ELLs. Providing these students with the tools and resources they need can be daunting, especially when working to personalize learning and differentiate in other ways.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2023

During the edLeader Panel “ The Art of Implementing Well ,” Anthony Kim, Chief Learning Officer at Education Elements, a Scholarus Learning Company, talked with two superintendents about how to successfully implement strategic plans. From the beginning, Kim made it clear why implementing well is so important.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Join us as we explore key issues and potential solutions through a series of blogs, webinars, and videos. With so many options, how do you select the best materials to meet your needs and context, and how do you leverage these materials to foster student-centered learning?

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I often hear frustration from students that “Math just isn’t for me!” This exclamation is even more troublesome when it comes from middle school girls, because young girls start off strong in math and science but lose interest and confidence as they get older. The Nation’s Report Card revealed in October 2015 that overall U.S.

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Education Elements

MARCH 16, 2021

I’m writing this blog during a 17-hour road trip that was supposed to be a 2-hour flight. My husband and I wanted to take our two boys skiing for spring break and have spent the last several months meticulously planning the perfect trip.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This is a special blog post because not only am I interviewing an expert in family outreach but I am interviewing my mom, Aleida Goetchius, who is truly my first mentor and forever hero. This is a translation of a conversation she and I had about her role as a Parent Liaison in Northern Virginia.

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PlagiarismCheck

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Multicultural festivals and fairs, along with educational elements introduced during the lessons, are named among the best solutions for confronting diversity issues. Giving the students the stage for self-expression and educating them on our differences from an early age can be the key to a more tolerant and accepting society.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 3, 2020

After I wrote the first blog in this series, I received a call from a close family member wanting to talk about what I had written. Their initial reaction was offense and confusion-- why did I think all teachers were “white supremacists”?

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 27, 2017

When we started the Bring Your Own Thoughts blog our goal was simple: write good stuff to help good people do good things for kids. You can read more about all of the ways we have supported districts this past year in our reflection on 2017 here , and catch up on our best blog posts below. And so far, it's been working.

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Education Elements

MARCH 18, 2020

I’ve written several blog posts and admittedly, this has been one of the harder ones. On the one hand, it’s important to share strategies at a time like this. On the other hand, I haven’t found a ton of equity strategies to share. I struggled with this dilemma and even considered shelving the post entirely.

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Education Elements

MAY 10, 2017

It’s been awhile since my last blog post as I try to document many of the great things going on at Central Valley on my twitter account, @CVThunderSuper. A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to live the life of a typical 8 th grade student during the school day.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This blog post was originally published on the CompetencyWorks website, based on data from former Ed Elements team member Mike Wolking.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Fall crafts for kids are the topic of our blog post today! What I love about these fall crafts for kids is how they not only celebrate the season but also sprinkle in some educational elements—be it fine motor skills, letter recognition, or even just the pure joy of creating something with your own two hands.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 16, 2016

Education Elements offers personalized learning consulting services and can help schools walk through the process. Most of the new companies in the ed-tech space are completely online, which makes them well poised for schools turning to blended learning. There are whole companies devoted to helping schools become blended.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Noah Dougherty, a senior design principal at the education consulting firm Education Elements, wrote in a blog post last week that “the biggest shift virtual learning requires is flexibility and a recognition that the controlled structure of a school is not replicable online.”

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In a series of blog posts, we have described the steps to creating a responsive strategic plan. How do we design the schools of the future, today? Designing innovative structures and systems takes a similarly innovative approach, otherwise, we’d design the same systems we already have all over again.

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Education Elements

MAY 8, 2019

Personalized learning represents a shift in how we teach students, a reflection of our changing educational landscape, and an acknowledgement that the world we must prepare our students for is different than the one we grew up in. One of the biggest ways education has already changed is in the content and tools students engage with.

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Education Elements

APRIL 13, 2016

Here in part four of my virtual school blog series , I offer 25 things to consider for your virtual program’s success, grouped under 5 main categories: Strategy, Design, Curriculum, Support and Operations. It’s your goal to make your virtual school program successful. For each item I’ve asked one key question.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

What is bringing you to this blog post today? How are you? What is top of mind for you as you’re reading this? Would you rather have the ability to fly or read minds? Did those questions interest or engage you? Are you now mulling over your current feelings or intentions?

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 13, 2017

I was in high school prior to the advent of Facebook, the iPhone, the Chromebook, and the popularization of blogs (ironic, given the medium of this article), and to this day, my most personalized educational experiences happened as a high school senior. I was a student in an Advanced Placement U.S.

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Education Elements

MARCH 27, 2019

Personalized learning represents a shift in how we teach students, a reflection of our changing educational landscape, and an acknowledgement that the world we must prepare our students for is different than the one we grew up in. One of the biggest ways education has already changed is in the content and tools students engage with.

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Education Elements

JUNE 3, 2015

Guest Blog Post by Wendy Daniels, 4th Grade Teacher at North Evanston Elementary School in Evanston, Wyoming. Students in Wendy Daniels 4th grade blended classroom in Evanston, WY join a virtual pen pal session with 5th grade blended students in Middletown, NY.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Personalized learning represents a shift in how we teach students, a reflection of our changing educational landscape, and an acknowledgement that the world we must prepare our students for is different than the one we grew up in. One of the biggest ways education has already changed is in the content and tools students engage with.

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Education Elements

APRIL 10, 2019

Personalized learning represents a shift in how we teach students, a reflection of our changing educational landscape, and an acknowledgement that the world we must prepare our students for is different than the one we grew up in. One of the biggest ways education has already changed is in the content and tools students engage with.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 18, 2017

Over the past six months I’ve explored hundreds of news stories, white papers, and blog posts focused on why and how leaders might foster a culture of innovation. Need happier employees? Need bigger profits? Need better leadership?

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Education Elements

MARCH 16, 2016

This is not the blog post I intended to write. Last year I was among the many educators that read a teacher’s account of what it was like to be a student for a day and felt despair rather than hope, and I’m pretty sure by 3rd period despair was high on the emotion list of that teacher and all of her “classmates” as well.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Digital Promise and Education Elements collaborated to catalog key CBE choices with over 20 school districts this school year in an online playbook. Some start with pilots to show proof points, and others begin with community engagement to generate support. Is there a right way to approach CBE?

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Education Elements

JULY 1, 2015

If you went to ISTE this year you are probably not reading this blog right now, as you are still there or, having already left, are now in active recovery and trying to shield yourself from all external stimuli. With over 14,000 educators, what seemed like as many industry experts and vendors (don’t worry, it wasn’t actually that many!)

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MARCH 8, 2017

There are many project management tools such as Trello and Basecamp that are already out there, and they’re great. However, we found that there was still something missing and that none of the existing solutions really met the needs of our school districts.

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JUNE 16, 2020

Uncover solutions for educators and students with a Google for Education event. You can also attend the Education Elements Summit , which brings together a diverse community of school leaders, researchers, designers, and more.

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