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Your Ticket to More Effective Lessons

A Principal's Reflections

At the time, this model was both a practical and effective means for planning direct instruction and was readily embraced as this was the primary strategy used in classrooms. Like many things in education, elements of ITIP still have value depending on how they are used. Herein lies the main disadvantage of ITIP.

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Honoring Teachers: an Underused Tool in Retaining Talent During the Teacher Shortage

Education Elements

The stories, run in newspapers across the country each week, paint a desperate picture: a Pre-K teacher in Texas juggling two classrooms alone; classes across the country led by a recurring series of long-term substitutes with no formal training ; a school district in Pennsylvania forced to shorten school days due to lack of staff; districts in North (..)

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Going Back to School to Learn About Blended Learning

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Natick created innovation teams to solve the challenging problems in their classrooms by evaluating innovative practices and tools. Education Elements offers personalized learning consulting services and can help schools walk through the process. Developing a Video Solution for Low-Bandwidth Classrooms.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

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.” But they’re not yet the norm in U.S.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

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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Becoming An Innovative Teacher Leader With Innovative Leader Competencies

Education Elements

In 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that educators were leaving the teaching profession at the highest rate on record. And while pay and resources are certainly worth prioritizing, a 2018 Gallup poll shared that teachers who left the classroom cited one overwhelming reason as to why: lack of career advancement.

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

The Hechinger Report

It can actually take more work to maintain high standards for all students in a personalized learning classroom. One challenge the series tackles is how to maintain rigor and high expectations for all students in blended and personalized learning classrooms. Unfortunately, the ideal doesn’t always materialize.