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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. How do you respond? The Education Elements team hears these questions a lot, so we shared our thoughts in the blog post, “ Charting Your Personalized Learning Course.” If you haven’t read it yet, go ahead. I’ll wait.

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Tough Stuff: How to talk to your students and children about difficult topics

Education Elements

The skill it takes to navigate these discussions with students and children is already complex; but add the sensitivity needed to when students are grappling with schooling and social loss, and we can appreciate that our leaders, teachers, and parents have had a crash course in communicating through disruption.

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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

Edsurge

Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Of course, combining classes is easier said than done. They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. . She achieved National Board Certification in 2011. .

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Why we love our PD tools

eSchool News

Originally we partnered with Education Elements to provide on-site personalized learning PD and consulting. During their sessions and ongoing support, we witnessed the specific tactics the Education Elements team uses to work together efficiently, so we asked for their guidance on how we could adopt these ways ourselves.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. CoSN members have been turning to each other for advice and support about how to approach coronavirus and virtual learning.

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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. That uncertainty is causing some educators—the ones with funding—to turn to high-priced consultants for answers. For researchers keeping their eyes on the education-reform sector, this scene is familiar. Probably not.

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18 Hands-on Fall Crafts for Kids

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

To get started, you’ll need some apples for stamping, and of course, paint and paper. Get the full scoop on how to bring this apple art to life by heading over to Premeditated Leftovers. Eager to find out how to create your own? To find out how to make these sparkly beauties, head over to Mod Podge Rocks.

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