Education Elements

APRIL 18, 2022

As a kid, I always colored within the lines of my coloring book; not because I wanted to follow the rules, but because I enjoyed precision. I admired my coloring book pages in the same way I did my classroom walls. As a teacher, I bought a laser level tool so that my posters would all be hung at the exact same height.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Standing in line at Starbucks ready to order my Venti black coffee, I pull out my phone and tap on Twitter even though I just checked it one minute ago. It’s a bad habit that I have, mindlessly opening the app without thinking, and pulling down the page in hopes that it will refresh with new content.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 18, 2022

Erin Conklin’s eyes light up when she talks about the primary and secondary source student book she created for Duval County Public School’s African American Studies elective.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Recently I was listening to a podcast , where Julie Lythcott-Haims – author of best selling books on helping young people become healthy and happy adults, and former Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising at Stanford University – applied the concept of growing bonsai trees to the way parents raise their children.

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Education Elements

MARCH 16, 2021

I booked all of the fun activities, and he dusted off our equipment and bargain shopped for winter clothing. I’m writing this blog during a 17-hour road trip that was supposed to be a 2-hour flight. We found the perfect, non-stop flight that would minimize the frustrations of traveling with two young kids.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Consultants charged the district as much as $1,000 per day for their services, as recorded in former Washington Post reporter Dale Russakoff’s book, The Prize. Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. Probably not.

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Education Elements

APRIL 21, 2020

Anthony Kim, speaker and author of the Corwin best seller the NEW School Rules , is using some of the practices in his book, and explain how they can apply in a remote work context. This is part one of a 7-part series.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Clayton Christensen wrote several best selling books on innovation and Clayton and Michael Horn put out a seminal book which in many ways shaped changes we have seen in education, “ Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns ”. This book made innovation cool even in education.

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Education Elements

MAY 28, 2019

An expanding middle class has provided access to a family budget which young people use to spend 14X more on food (compared to adults); 8X more on books and clothes (up to 79% have purchased online); and twice as much on entertainment. Never before has a generation had so much and seemingly wanted for so little.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In his book Striving for Equity: District Leadership for Narrowing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps , co-author and former Arlington County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Smith provides the following explanation of educational equity: “You don't have equity in conditions in which all students are receiving the same amount of support, You are (..)

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Education Elements

JULY 8, 2020

These may seem like disconnected personas, but in their book, Primed to Perform, authors Neel Doshi and Lindsey McGregor use all three real-life stories to explain how organizations should prepare their employees in planning a response to uncommon and changing situations. No, really.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

It’s a craft that’s as engaging as it is forgiving—a win-win in my book. 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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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

In the next couple of years, I was informally involved with the writing of the book, mainly serving as a sounding board to one of its co-authors, Michael Horn. It also helped launch KIPP Empower Academy in Los Angeles whose blended design was Anthony Kim’s first project that led to the formation of Education Elements.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 22, 2017

In the book Oh The Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss describes the excitement and trepidation we all feel before we embark on a new adventure. There are going to be tales of success, failure, and everything in between, but what makes this journey so special is it truly becomes your own.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Clayton Christensen wrote several best selling books on innovation and Clayton and Michael Horn put out a seminal book which in many ways shaped changes we have seen in education, “ Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns ”. This book made innovation cool even in education.

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Education Elements

JULY 18, 2018

Some stories are as small as 6 words or 280 characters, and others are the length of a book or a movie. Stories are all around us. Researchers found that personal stories and gossip make up 65% of our conversation. Your best stories are told in multiple lengths and forms.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Drawing on material from his new book, Rose offered three compelling changes to how we consider individuality (or anti-average thinking) to better solve social and self-problems. Or at least, you'll probably think it's close once you read Todd Rose's The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World that Values Sameness.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 8, 2018

The feeling of getting back in my classroom after recharging during summer break, the excitement of unpacking book boxes, decorating the walls, and way too many trips to Target for those must-have new supplies. The moment that made it feel most real was getting my class list, picturing the faces that would soon fill the empty desks.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 8, 2018

The feeling of getting back in my classroom after recharging during summer break, the excitement of unpacking book boxes, decorating the walls, and way too many trips to Target for those must-have new supplies. The moment that made it feel most real was getting my class list, picturing the faces that would soon fill the empty desks.

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Education Elements

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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Though there are many books, a lot of advice and much research conducted about human development and personal growth, very little has been published or discussed on how or what we need to do to sustain peak performance levels. How do I stay ahead of the game consistently and constantly?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Though there are many books, a lot of advice and much research conducted about human development and personal growth, very little has been published or discussed on how or what we need to do to sustain peak performance levels. How do I stay ahead of the game consistently and constantly?

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JULY 27, 2016

In the year 1762, a Genevan philosopher named Jean-Jacques Rousseau presented the world with his vision of education. Despite being burned, banned, and ridiculed, this vision – a book Rousseau titled Emile, or On Education, went on to become a pillar of today’s modern philosophies on teaching and learning.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

At some point, my sister decided to go below to grab a book she’d been reading. There had been no sight of land in any direction for hours, and it would be a few more hours before we would see land again. The winds and sea were fair, and we were cruising along at a relaxing pace. Sadie was taking on water.

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Education Elements

JUNE 9, 2016

It all started, as these things often do, just when I was ready to slam closed for good my own cosmic “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. Personalized learning came along at the perfect time in my life, like the deus ex machina in an M. Night Shyamalan film.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

We hired an outside consultant -- Education Elements -- who specializes in, and works with our teachers on, the pedagogical aspects of personalized learning models (i.e. As Diane Ravitch writes in her book Reign of Error: "The education profession must become more professional, not less so. blended learning).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2017

Senft’s book “Introduction to Low-Temperature Differential Stirling Engines.” by Valeria Ventura Subirachs Grade: 9th - Freeport High School/ Pulsar search collaboratory (Freeport, NY) How We Created Our School's First S.T.E.M. Coco credits her inspiration to James R. Robert Hernandez (JOVRNALISM).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2018

And so emphasizing learning networks nudges educators to think about learning in different ways. Three recent books explore the power of learning networks. This past spring, EdSurge caught up with the authors at the Personalized Learning Summit , sponsored by Education Elements. Why write this book now?

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Education Elements

AUGUST 28, 2019

And still others are achievement-based goals – write a book, buy a house, run a marathon. Many of these are health-related – eat more greens, lose weight, drink more water, get more sleep. Some are financial goals – get a raise, save for a vacation, make a million dollars. But there was a huge problem with their apparent success.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

.” Via Education Dive : “Researcher: AI won’t replace teachers.” ” Inside Higher Ed on Robot-Proof : “Northeastern president discusses his new book on how higher education can train students for careers where technology cannot make them redundant.” ” asks Mark Guzdial.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via The Hechinger Report : “How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.” ” Also via The Hechinger Report : “The future of proficiency-based education.” ” “The Case for Learning Platform Grade Book ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein.

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