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5 Tips for Building a P of a Graduate

Education Elements

A graduate profile may also be referred to as Portrait of a Graduate, Profile of a Graduate, Journey of a Graduate, or Journey of a Learner. At Education Elements we believe in the importance of building and creating a profile collaboratively; that the process of creation is, in fact, just as important as the end product.

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How Education Elements Guides Districts in Creating Environments that Personalize Learning

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Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. What They Do Anthony Kim likes to describe the Education Elements team as the “sherpas” of personalized learning. Stay tuned!

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Racing to Implement the Science of Reading: Setting a Pace for Achieving Success

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During speeches in January, several state leaders kicked off the year with strong commitments of money and resources to improve literacy in their schools through the immediate implementation of evidence-based reading instruction, often referred to as the “science of reading.”

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Adaptations for Flexible Learning in a Resilient School District

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In medicine, fenestration refers to a new opening in the body made through surgery. Fenestration, in architecture, is the way windows, doors, and openings are placed and arranged on a building. There is another meaning of the word and it is used to describe openings in the leaves of plants.

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Beyond Unpacking: How to personalize a standard

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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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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. Probably not,” says Kim, in an interview with EdSurge.

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Breaking the Mold: Understanding and Developing New School Models - White Paper

Education Elements

In particular, it’s worth reflecting on 3 essential questions in school model design, a term we use to refer to how schools are organized to deliver instruction to students. As we continue to progress through the 21st century we are compelled to ask whether current models of schooling are well designed for the world beyond classroom walls.

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