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Slow Pivots — What’s Driving the Change to Reimagine School Schedules?

Education Elements

School schedules and use of time are one of the few remaining relics of the industrialized learning model. Even when most schools moved to virtual learning in March 2020, many organizations replicated the existing bell schedule and instructed teachers to move their onsite instruction online.

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Tips for Educators: The Innovator in You and the Future of District Organizations

Education Elements

Innovation has become so frequent that it’s part of everyone’s vernacular and a topic in many industries including healthcare, auto manufacturing, and education. This book made innovation cool even in education. Within the last two decades, the barrier to entry to be innovative has dramatically decreased.

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Recruit and Retain the Best Teachers by Tapping into Teacher Agency

Education Elements

While attrition and staff turnover are common among all industries, the rate is noticeably higher in education than in other highly socially respected professions such as lawyers, engineers, architects, and several medical-related fields.

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The Future of District Organizations: How Educators Can Be Innovators

Education Elements

Innovation has become so frequent that it’s part of everyone’s vernacular and a topic in many industries including healthcare, auto manufacturing, and education. This book made innovation cool even in education. Within the last two decades, the barrier to entry to be innovative has dramatically decreased.

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Don’t Look Now but the 21st Century is Behind You!

Education Elements

Five years ago, our team partnered with the Economist Group to conduct a study where we asked business and industry leaders around the world, what were the most critical skills they wanted their employees to possess. You could say the results were more validating than surprising.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: “People think it’s about boxes and wires and that’s just the beginning,” said Beth Holland, digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry association for tech directors across the country.

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An Open Letter to Appointed Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos

Edsurge

Betsy, this is why I am writing to you today, as you embark on your mission to “make American education great again” or, as I believe, prepared for the future. Education Elements were charter schools, it is important to first establish the tremendous respect I have for the level of innovation we have seen come out of these establishments.

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