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3 Trends in the Next Phase of Remote Learning as COVID-19 Extends School Closures

Education Elements

Often, discussions about remote learning can be captured in three trends: District and school leaders are shifting their focus towards longer-term solutions that make remote learning as meaningful as possible.

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Strategic Planning With Students, For Students

Education Elements

One consistent trend across school districts is that most adults overestimate their ability to understand and empathize with their students’ experiences at school. This trend is particularly problematic when a district’s strategic plan, the framework that guides decisions impacting students most, is written solely by adults.

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Retaining Teachers Requires a Belonging Strategy

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Why are teachers quitting, and what can be done to stop this troubling trend? These high turnover rates have many impacts on the school community , not the least of which is a detrimental effect on student growth and achievement.

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How Education Elements Guides Districts in Creating Environments that Personalize Learning

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In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. Stay tuned!

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6 Major K-12 Education Predictions for 2024

Education Elements

Take a casual stroll through the past predictions I made about education, leading up to 2024. Over the last few years, I've called several major trends in education that hit the nail on the head. You'll see they were pretty spot-on. Digital skills? They've become a big deal in classrooms everywhere, just as I anticipated.

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Personalized Learning - From start-up to fully scaled

Education Elements

One key trend - an increase in the commitment to personalize learning. We saw organizations revisiting their missions and visions to determine if what students now needed matched their organization’s statements. We saw tweets and posts of teachers sharing or seeking help in creating voice and choice in instruction.

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Education Predictions for an Unpredictable 2021

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Now at the end of 2020, I’d estimate that +95% of all K-12 students took some form of an online class, and most likely this trend will continue into 2021. Even as of May 2019, there were people pointing out the failure of this prediction.