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Choose your partners wisely. And treat them well!

Education Elements

This is also the time of year when we at Education Elements focus on our blooming partner catalog - on building relationships with new partners, and cultivating and growing our relationships with old ones. It's spring and flowers aren't the only things blooming.

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3 Takeaways from the Inaugural Digital Learning Annual Conference

Education Superhighway

Thankfully, over the past several years, federal, state and local leaders have worked to tackle the digital divide, which has results in 98 percent of school districts now meeting minimum connectivity goals.

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An Open Letter to Appointed Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos

Edsurge

All of it with a lens around expanding opportunities around choice, voice, path and place to create the best possible outcome for those our decisions impact most: the students. 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.

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

The Hechinger Report

Through working with thousands of teachers and designing hundreds of instructional models, all with the intention of changing what teaching and learning looks like to provide for a more personalized experience, Education Elements identified four core elements that should exist in every personalized learning environment.

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School Improvement: Strategies That Can Make It Happen

edWeb.net

Principals meet with Pulvino and the deputy superintendent to review site-based goals and accomplishments and offer qualitative and quantitative feedback. Monthly meetings with school leaders help to determine whether schools are on track. Feedback invites schools to consider different strategies if desired outcomes do not materialize.

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A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning

Edsurge

I knew the process of change should involve observing teachers, meeting with instructional coaches and communicating with administrators about what our staff needed and how they were growing. I looked at my schedule for the day—zero meetings. I decided to have one-one-one meetings with the decision-makers at my school.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

The district believes that by making its students feel equal to those in more affluent communities, they will start to see the same outcomes. Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. It helps the teachers differentiate the instruction to meet the child’s needs.”.