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How Education Elements Guides Districts in Creating Environments that Personalize Learning

Edsurge

Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

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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. Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. Probably not,” says Kim, in an interview with EdSurge.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

If entire K-12 districts move online, what can schools expect of early elementary schoolers? EST March 11 about the medical, legal, educational, logistical and equity issues that schools should be thinking about as they consider taking classes online. BrainPop, Kahoot!, PearDeck, Google and GoGuardian are among them.

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How Mastery Design Collaborative Helps Schools Redesign their Models to Personalize Learning

Edsurge

Prior to launching the nonprofit organization, both co-founders worked together at Education Elements , consulting with districts around designing and implementing blended learning models. In fall 2016, ASCEND will expand the prototype to the entire elementary school.

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In the marketplace: Measuring student progress, new digital solutions, personalized learning, and more

eSchool News

NAPCO’s adaptive motion detection equipment automatically selects the appropriate mode in order to optimize intruder catch and reduce false alarms, according to the company. HISD, the seventh largest K-12 school district in the United States, has secured a bond that would fund considerable spending on upgrading its security needs.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

But in recent years, we've seen a spike in the number of smaller, tightly focused, niche edtech product companies. 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. blended learning).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. Via The Hechinger Report : “How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.”