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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. If you are giving a school a technology that they cannot use—or it is not really going to make a difference in reading scores or school performance—then it is not the right input, not the right system.

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18 Hands-on Fall Crafts for Kids

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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. Definitely head over to the linked sources for all the steps and additional tips.

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Framework: Ed Elements on the ‘Core Four’ Foundations of Personalized Learning

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The consulting firm Education Elements designated four factors as the keys to successfully integrating a personalized learning model, based on its experience with 100 districts, 300 schools and 300,000 students. The Core Four.

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How do teachers know if they are getting personalized learning right?

The Hechinger Report

With myriad definitions of personalized learning and little agreement on which one is the best, leaders and teachers struggle to know if they are doing personalized learning “right.”. Focusing on these four elements transforms classrooms in a sustainable and measureable way. You can download it here.

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How to Create a Vision

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As Education Elements has worked with districts across the country, we’ve found a few simple guidelines can help make the visioning process invigorating and inspiring rather than routine or frustrating. And there are definitely times when you do not. Long, awkward silences may follow periods of disagreement.

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How to Create a Vision

Edsurge

As Education Elements has worked with districts across the country, we’ve found a few simple guidelines can help make the visioning process invigorating and inspiring rather than routine or frustrating. And there are definitely times when you do not. Long, awkward silences may follow periods of disagreement.

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The Biggest Challenge to Personalized Learning is Getting Buy-In

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There is no single accepted definition, nor is there a single right approach or way to measure its impact. But in a recent study of 450 educators, including district leaders, school leaders, teachers, private businesses and other groups from 46 U.S. By name alone, personalized learning sounds like just another jargon-heavy initiative.