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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. Not only does this meet the criteria for a well-designed exit ticket, but it also goes much more profound and serves as a more powerful reflective tool for both the teacher and the student.

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School Improvement: Strategies That Can Make It Happen

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Principals meet with Pulvino and the deputy superintendent to review site-based goals and accomplishments and offer qualitative and quantitative feedback. Annual state assessments provide summative data that inform plan modifications. Monthly meetings with school leaders help to determine whether schools are on track.

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Why we love our PD tools

eSchool News

This year, we will use video as an informal look at the level of math conversations going on in their classrooms.”. Originally we partnered with Education Elements to provide on-site personalized learning PD and consulting. LETRS truly allows you to be an informed educator when you’re determining what to do with students.

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5 edtech tools that take personalized learning to the next level

eSchool News

And while whole-class instruction may meet the needs of some students, more often than not, it leaves out many more students than it helps. Our transition to personalized learning has been an exhilarating journey that picked up even more momentum through our work with Education Elements beginning in the 2017-18 school year.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

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Beginning in the spring, MPUSD Superintendent, PK Diffenbaugh, and Marci McFadden, Chief of Communication and Engagement, recognized that families would require more information than ever about nearly every aspect of schooling, as well as need more opportunities to ask questions due to the uncertainty brought on by the pandemic.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

All the while, it was obvious to me that urgent measures had to be taken to radically transform the educational opportunities America’s children had as they entered the 21st century. In the next couple of years, I was informally involved with the writing of the book, mainly serving as a sounding board to one of its co-authors, Michael Horn.

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[Guest Post] OER 101: Building the Future of Education Beyond Brick-and-Mortar

Education Elements

Instead, we need high-quality, current resources to keep students interested, informed, and engaged. As these resources race to the front, they help teachers push through barriers due to textbook contracts: high prices, irrelevant content, and ineffective material to meet students’ needs. That’s where OER come into play. Enter: OER.

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