Education Elements

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

At Education Elements, we know that a leader is critical in navigating a school system through change. This has become abundantly clear as we’ve navigated the COVID-19 pandemic - schools and leaders have undergone and continue to experience a period of immense uncertainty and change.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In September of 2020, Education Elements announced the first cohort of the “Systems for Education Equity Development," or SEED, Fellowship.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The initial relationship between Education Elements and Mason City Schools started over a casual conversation of the sharing of what books they were reading. Christine McCormick , Innovative Systems Officer at Mason City Schools, is a disruptor, dreamer and visionary of what the potential of what a school district could look like.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

In our work, we see that with the right support systems in place, we can collectively improve school performance and meet the needs of students and educators. They may experience high teacher turnover, a poor school climate, and low student achievement, just to name a few challenges.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The report marks eight years since Education Elements was founded, and our fifth such report. In the report, we highlight the incredible work of our district partners and share how our work is evolving to continue to build and support dynamic school systems that meet the needs of every learner, today and tomorrow.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The superintendent holds a lonely, yet transcendent position in public education. Transformational leadership is about using your actions to elevate others and put them on their path to greatness. Terina Allen. The position tends to isolate the leader because of the growing divisions in our society.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The superintendent holds a lonely, yet transcendent position in public education. Transformational leadership is about using your actions to elevate others and put them on their path to greatness. Terina Allen. The position tends to isolate the leader because of the growing divisions in our society.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The report marks eight years since Education Elements was founded, and our fifth such report. In the report, we highlight the incredible work of our district partners and share how our work is evolving to continue to build and support dynamic school systems that meet the needs of every learner, today and tomorrow.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The report marks eight years since Education Elements was founded, and our fifth such report. In the report, we highlight the incredible work of our district partners and share how our work is evolving to continue to build and support dynamic school systems that meet the needs of every learner, today and tomorrow.

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AUGUST 19, 2015

From competency-based learning ( I just gave a presentation at Keene State’s Education Summit ) to personalized learning, Stemscopes (hands on science curriculum) to Dreambox (adaptive math), and Edusight (robust gradebook) to Fishtree (adaptive learning system), we have a lot of choices.

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Education Elements

JUNE 15, 2021

In other words, systemic change is not just a collective responsibility, it’s also an individual responsibility. I was recently struck by a piece by Elena Aguilar , the “coach’s coach,” about acting in one’s sphere of influence to create change.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, implementing initiatives can make all the difference between thriving and merely surviving. The art of implementing initiatives well is a skill that requires a combination of strategy, systems, and responsive leadership.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Working at Education Elements, where we build and support dynamic school systems that meet the needs of every learner, I’m often quick to answer with a resounding, “Yes!”. Do students deserve personalized learning? It’s hard not to. The narrative of personalized learning is compelling.

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MARCH 22, 2023

In Texas, the state implemented a grant system called the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA), where districts create criteria for designating “Master” teachers to reward their top performers. School districts face an increasingly competitive market as districts grapple over teacher talent.

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Education Elements

JULY 18, 2022

Our small community woke up to the sirens of an EF4 tornado that rocked our community and two weeks later our school system closed when the COVID pandemic hit home all across the state of Tennessee. March 2nd is a day that will never be forgotten in Putnam County, TN.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

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. From the beginning, Kim made it clear why implementing well is so important.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

But pre-pandemic, some schools began to look across the systems that were set up and consider more flexible and agile options that were more in tune with designing learning that is more compelling, personalized, and appropriately challenging for their students.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Many educators are calling for this conversation to be rebranded as a “teacher walkout” to highlight that teachers are leaving the field as a way to protest a system not built to empower them as decision-makers and innovators.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We all hear of data-driven decisions, and the importance of data in education and educational systems, but we are often challenged to incorporate data review and the next steps into our everyday lives. If our cliches are an indicator, we all know that data collection, review, analysis, and understanding is important.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

So, here, we intend to articulate some of the pivotal ethical issues of modern education. Inequity Inequality and inequity affect people in each and every aspect of the social system. When it comes to education, the issue is even more burning, as young individuals are more vulnerable and susceptible to the problems inequity entails.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. If you are giving a school a technology that they cannot use—or it is not really going to make a difference in reading scores or school performance—then it is not the right input, not the right system. Probably not.

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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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Education Elements

AUGUST 3, 2020

It caught me off guard because I hadn’t written that--what I did write was that the American education system is built on a foundation of white supremacy, and we as teachers should work to dismantle that system. Their initial reaction was offense and confusion-- why did I think all teachers were “white supremacists”?

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Education Elements

MAY 13, 2020

In doing so, we quickly saw the cracks in our school systems, such as equity, access, social-emotional learning, and experiences that empower students to be more self-directed.

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Education Elements

JUNE 9, 2020

The worldwide response to COVID-19 is creating unforeseen challenges and virtual changes for every aspect of our education system. Long-standing pillars such as curriculum and instruction, operations, and accountability, among others, are all being tested under the weight of the pandemic response.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 20, 2021

But educators must recognize that a return to “normal” will only reinforce the widening opportunity gap and systems that support institutionalized racism. The vaccine has returned a sense of hope that life will get back to “normal.” Instead, structural changes will need to be made if learning loss is to truly be addressed.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 19, 2021

But educators must recognize that a return to “normal” will only reinforce the widening opportunity gap and systems that support institutionalized racism. The vaccine has returned a sense of hope that life will get back to “normal.” Instead, structural changes will need to be made if learning loss is to truly be addressed.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Aleida has been a Parent Liaison for 16 years supporting all families with a specialty in supporting families from international backgrounds who are navigating the American school system for the first time.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The systems that teachers and leaders design and implement in schools are all impacted by the biases of their designers. As my colleagues wrote in Capture the Opportunity: Steps to Redesign School-Level Systems for Equity : As my colleagues wrote in Capture the Opportunity: Steps to Redesign School-Level Systems for Equity :

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In the Putnam County (TN) School System— a rural school district with 23 schools spread across 400 miles—our personalized learning approach has allowed us to reshape education for students on a variety of fronts. Canvas is our learning management system (LMS) and provides a framework for our blended learning environment.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The work districts and teams did over the summer is now in action: you’re following new protocols for safety, implementing curriculum changes, and leveraging new systems for instruction and communication. Across the country, students have returned to school, whether it’s in-person, virtually, or in a hybrid model.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 12, 2021

At the beginning of last week, my colleagues Purvi Patel, Dave Hardy, and I were excited to welcome leaders participating in our inaugural cohort of the Systems of Educational Equity Development ( SEED) Fellowship after a well-deserved break and launch the beginning of our INCLUDE sessions.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

It also helped launch KIPP Empower Academy in Los Angeles whose blended design was Anthony Kim’s first project that led to the formation of Education Elements. The Foundation was an early supporter of Education Reimagined and I participated as one of 28 strange bedfellows in the production of its vision document.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

But equally important, often less emphasized, and incredibly hard is the “how” of making and managing that change in a classroom, school, or system. We conducted a deep study with 100 leaders from 60 systems across the country to understand how they are making decisions about how to lead innovation work in their communities.

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Education Elements

MAY 16, 2018

In the three-plus years since introducing Personalized Learning (PL) in individual schools within a large public school system, the Imaginarium, Denver Public Schools’ (DPS) innovation lab, has been studying the conditions that help and hinder the implementation of PL at scale.

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Education Elements

MARCH 9, 2020

The vision I had upon entering the role, one that many new educators have, was fading fast, and I was fortunate to be on a team that understood this reality and had a support system in place to address it.

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