Education Elements

JANUARY 23, 2024

Our schools operate at a rapid pace as they are dynamic environments with a number of moving parts. As leaders, we are continually attending to matters of teaching and learning, making sure our curricula are rigorous and standards-based, checking in on culture and learning outcomes using data to measure results…and much more.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 23, 2021

Across the country teachers are welcoming students into their virtual and in-person classrooms, as schools are welcoming new teachers to their teams. These teachers - new to the profession, early career and veterans - are starting at schools while conditions remain unprecedented and unpredictable.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Too often, schools are trapped inside cycles of belief that they are working on school improvement when in reality very little changes year-over-year. Does this sound familiar? It is time to shift this paradigm.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

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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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I believe that ALL students, especially Black and Brown students, deserve an academically rigorous education that affords them opportunities and experiences that will prepare them to lead a successful life.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A few Fridays ago I got a message from my colleague Kelly. She asked what I wanted for lunch, said she would order it, and that we would eat together during our Zoom meeting later that day (where we would begin to reimagine what summer school could look like).

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Education Elements

JUNE 17, 2020

In times of uncertainty, organizations tend to shift their focus to getting results, maintaining order, and ensuring safety. While these actions make sense to counteract the challenges of complexity, it is in fact a culture of learning that allows organizations to increase agility and heighten their ability to navigate uncharted waters.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 4, 2020

Through most of the spring and summer, we at Education Elements have intensely focused on helping school districts prepare for returning to school.

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Education Elements

MAY 6, 2020

I took this leap because I wanted to be more nimble to visit our district partners, attend education events and conferences, and celebrate Simchas (the hebrew word for a Joyous Occasion, and the root word for my name Simma) with friends and family all over the country.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 15, 2022

School leaders, teachers and parents have had to navigate difficult conversations in the last few years. During the panedemic, they explained to students that the learning will be shifting again to virtual, that collaboration will look and feel different, that although “sharing is caring,” let’s pause on the sharing of supplies for now.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 14, 2019

Last year, a group of educators sat down with engineers from a well-known technology company. The first question the educators asked was what the engineers look for in potential candidates. The way these engineers code today is different than how they coded ten years ago and will be different ten years from now.

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Education Elements

JULY 19, 2017

Teachers were learning how to use the devices, navigate programs and personalize instruction while also getting to know their students and teach them content in a new way. At the start of school, iPads were distributed to all students and 490 teachers -- many staff and students had never even held an iPad prior to the distribution.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 21, 2020

We’ve talked a lot about the need to improve teacher retention. During the pandemic, teachers are feeling burned out, unsupported, and dissatisfied with their jobs and lack of recognition. A survey this summer showed that nearly 30% of teachers are more likely to leave the profession now due to the pandemic.

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Education Elements

JUNE 21, 2017

If you’re an educator, my guess is that at some point in your career you’ve been to a workshop focusing on unpacking standards. Unpacking a standard refers to the practice of reviewing what is often a long, clause-ridden statement and breaking it down into component parts to identify what students should know and be able to do.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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. Long, awkward silences may follow periods of disagreement. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

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. Long, awkward silences may follow periods of disagreement. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Close your eyes and imagine yourself in an all-purpose room with uncomfortable chairs and a trainer lecturing to a whole-group about the latest small-group teaching strategies. We’ve all been there, right? Stuck in PD sessions with facilitators who don’t practice what they preach.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. . Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected.

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Education Elements

JUNE 26, 2019

While it may seem like these district teams “just have the right people,” they have actually taken on a methodical approach to how to run team meetings.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 15, 2017

When our team partners with a school district to tackle its toughest education leadership challenges, relationships are built at all levels of the organization.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2023

How good a job one does at that vital step can make all the difference in the plan’s success or failure. During the edLeader Panel “ The Art of Implementing Well ,” Anthony Kim, Chief Learning Officer at Education Elements, a Scholarus Learning Company, talked with two superintendents about how to successfully implement strategic plans.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As we start the calendar year, many of us have the desire to set ambitious goals to change how we work to make it more fulfilling and sustainable. I supported five new teachers, all in different content areas with different curricula (or none) which added to this stress.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

One of the worst implementation mistakes school leaders make when they buy devices for their classrooms is allowing even one teacher to feel obsolete. Computers do not substitute for good teachers.

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Education Elements

JULY 25, 2018

“Please see me in my office when you get a break.” A message that is not for the faint of heart. It is also a message I received often from my principal when I was teaching. You read that correctly, I was regularly asked to visit the principal’s office.

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Education Elements

JULY 25, 2018

“Please see me in my office when you get a break.” A message that is not for the faint of heart. It is also a message I received often from my principal when I was teaching. You read that correctly, I was regularly asked to visit the principal’s office.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 8, 2018

As the 2018-2019 school year begins, I can’t help but think back to my years in the classroom and the days and weeks leading up to a new school year.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

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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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

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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Education Elements

AUGUST 8, 2018

As the 2018-2019 school year begins, I can’t help but think back to my years in the classroom and the days and weeks leading up to a new school year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Separate from its Playbook that helps define a vision, Education Elements , a consulting firm, helps schools and districts design next-generation teaching and learning models. It helps schools and districts assess their needs, recognize their strengths and how to work with those, and map out a plan. But It’s also flexible.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2023

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We saw districts investing more time and resources into developing their teams and aligning them on how to personalize learning for their students. We saw tweets and posts of teachers sharing or seeking help in creating voice and choice in instruction. One key trend - an increase in the commitment to personalize learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

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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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As students across the county prepare for the start of a new school year, conversations about how to address our national teacher shortage are becoming more frequent and urgent.

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Education Elements

MAY 2, 2022

In our work with districts across the country, we frequently hear questions about instructional materials–from how to select high quality programs that match their needs, to building processes that are inclusive of key stakeholders, to developing sustainable processes for regularly reviewing and refining curriculum, just to name a few.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As more and more high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) become available, we have noticed a tension with districts across the country between being excited about the opportunities for new, rigorous materials, and the concern about when and how to get started.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We saw districts investing more time and resources into developing their teams and aligning them on how to personalize learning for their students. We saw tweets and posts of teachers sharing or seeking help in creating voice and choice in instruction. One key trend - an increase in the commitment to personalize learning.

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