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Transforming How One School District Approaches Strategic Planning: A Collaborative Journey between the School District of Newberry County and Education Elements

Education Elements

As students and districts around the country begin the new school year, we are excited to share an inspiring story of how the School District of Newberry County, South Carolina, in partnership with Education Elements, is launching this school year with a powerful new Strategic Plan.

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Shifts in Professional Learning: more microlearning and virtual courses

Education Elements

This at a time when professional learning is so critical for educators who are navigating uncertainties around in-person consistency, increasing responsibilities, and shifting instructional modalities.

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Constant Learning and Creative Response: Charting the Course in Personalized Learning

Education Elements

At Education Elements we try to walk the walk of personalized learning. We strive to make our workshops interactive, upbeat, and fun. We create space for spirited large and small group discussion, and we honor time for quiet individual processing and reflection. We believe teachers should be designers of their classrooms.

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Your Ticket to More Effective Lessons

A Principal's Reflections

Like many things in education, elements of ITIP still have value depending on how they are used. In simple terms, these are ungraded formative assessments that assess what students learned during the course of the lesson.

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Teacher Leaders Creating Change in Kenai

Education Elements

What did we need to maintain a steady-on course at warp 10? Our Education Elements partners had seen this before. The flood gates opened and the previous celebratory moment became distant somehow as we stood staring at the warp speed status…warp 8, warp 9.

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Instructional Frameworks Are Vital to School District Success

Education Elements

Imagine a school district as a ship navigating the vast and ever-changing ocean of education. Just as sailors rely on the North Star to navigate across uncharted waters, school districts can best stay on course with their own guiding light, an instructional framework.

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How to Assess Your District's Personalized Learning Implementation

Education Elements

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.