Education Elements

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As we count down to this year's Education Elements Summit, we asked presenters from last year's Summit to share more of their innovative thinking with us.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Two common misconceptions about personalized learning are that it requires technology and that it must involve significantly more independent work. And yet, an adaptive program still requires a teacher to facilitate learning that empowers students and builds their ownership of learning.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Reflection and goal-setting is the simplest way to begin personalizing learning because it mirrors a practice we engage in every day of our lives. And it’s one reason why reflection and goal-setting is often the first step educators take to personalize learning.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In our earlier versions of our Core Four of Personalized Learning, targeted instruction was primarily a teacher action separated from another Core Four element, data driven decision making. We recognize that this limited the potential impact that targeted instruction could have to personalize learning for students.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Learning loss. All of those words represent important topics that existed pre-pandemic yet were magnified when students returned to in-person instruction. But in true educator fashion, resilience prevailed. One key trend - an increase in the commitment to personalize learning. Interventions.

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Education Elements

APRIL 4, 2022

I’ve heard this question so many times in my support of over 150 schools as they implement personalized learning that I no longer count. Teachers and leaders want to know, am I “doing” personalized learning right. I can’t remember how many times I have been asked “Am I doing it right?”

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When I was in high school I had a fantastic U.S. history teacher who demanded that we each complete an independent research paper on the 1960’s at the end of the year.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

It was about a year ago that I took the plunge and implemented personalized learning in my classroom. That decision turned out to be one of the best I’ve made in my sixteen years as an educator.

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JUNE 20, 2018

One of the most common questions I answer about Education Elements is, “So what do you guys do?” If we have an elevator ride that goes to, say, the top of the world’s tallest building, I can give a fairly satisfying and comprehensive answer.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

This is true for advancing the work of personalized learning. But sometimes there are myths that aren’t fun and quirky, and don’t end up on TV. Some myths have depth and need to be addressed in order for progress to be made.

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Education Elements

MAY 17, 2017

I almost feel like I could both start and end this post with just those 4 words and a short description of what it was like to be in a room full of educators singing and dancing their hearts out (some in costume!) on Thursday night of Education Elements' 3rd Annual Personalized Learning Summit.

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MAY 24, 2017

When I’m on the road working with school districts across the country on everything from personalized learning to competency-based education (CBE), I often hear the same question: “Well how do other districts approach these issues?”.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Students got to learn about places they had visited and people they had heard about. When I was a teacher in Washington, D.C. I taught a class on local history. I’ve never taught a class where students were more deeply engaged in the actual content of the class.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

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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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Several years ago, I was selected by the Lexington Institute for their initial leadership cohort, which focused on the implementation of personalized learning. It was a tremendous honor and a great learning experience for me. It is where I first met Anthony Kim and became aware of Education Elements.

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JUNE 28, 2017

Education Elements put together a few of our favorites on personalized and blended learning just for you. You’ll start the 2017-18 school year refreshed and full of great ideas to continue to move forward with personalized learning at your school and across your district. But what books will make the cut?

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Personalized Learning. If you are anything like the educators and leaders in the schools and districts we at iTeach support, you are already a ‘believer’ in the promise of a learning experience that is personalized. Two words that at the same time inspire hearts and minds, and leave our pragmatic minds wandering.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

In his book Striving for Equity: District Leadership for Narrowing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps , co-author and former Arlington County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Smith provides the following explanation of educational equity: “You don't have equity in conditions in which all students are receiving the same amount of support, You are (..)

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Measuring your personalized learning journey is now easier than ever with the new Kiddom + Education Elements partnership. Personalized learning is a buzz phrase we hear often in education. This pedagogical style is inspirational, and may serve students well, but it often lacks direction.

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JUNE 7, 2017

In year one of being a personalized learning school, I have had many reflective moments like this at Trailside Middle School. Have you ever stopped and looked around your school, your classroom, and asked yourself: “How did this all happen? Where did it all begin? How did we get to this point? When did the transformation occur?”.

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Education Elements

APRIL 11, 2018

“You can’t buy personalized learning…” I read this statement by Richard Culatta recently and it really resonated with me because personalizing learning is about skilled teachers, not students working on computers for a large part of a day. Good teachers are a crucial element of personalized learning.

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Education Elements

JULY 11, 2018

Since 2010 Education Elements has supported more than 150 districts, 600 schools, and 550,000 students with personalized learning implementations.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Think back to when you had a deep sense of ownership in your learning; a time when you went above and beyond the expectations because of your own curiosity or passion. For me, this was in seventh grade during a career exploration project.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

“By providing recipients with the tools and support they need, we can help drive positive change for schools, teachers, and students,” said Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements.

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MAY 3, 2017

When Keith Wilson and Monte Westfall, successful administrators of the Lawrence Virtual School, and I began working on our workshop about equity for Education Elements’ Personalized Learning Summit (May 10-12, 2017), we chose this very equation as the title but added a new twist.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Each year we receive hundreds of questions along the lines of, “Okay…so what does personalized learning actually look like?”. One is that personalized learning always involves these core four elements - targeted instruction, data-driven decisions, flexible content, and student reflection and ownership.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Personalized learning has captured the attention of many education reformers. Much of the conversation is around utilizing a personalized learning approach to enhance student engagement, and thereby, increase student achievement.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At Education Elements we are incredibly fortunate to work with so many exceptional, passionate, and extraordinarily talented people, including teachers, coaches, principals, and district leaders.

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MARCH 15, 2017

I was blessed to become a Personalized Learning Lexington Education Leadership Award Fellow (2nd Class) back in December of 2015. Education Elements not only influenced my personal work, but it motivated me to make learning meaningful for my students (all 4,970) in an exceptional way.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

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. Hybrid learning – a blend of online and traditional classes – really took off, especially when the pandemic stirred things up.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The board wants proof that personalized learning is having a positive impact in your district. Parents are asking for evidence that these new strategies are improving their child’s education. How do you respond? If you haven’t read it yet, go ahead.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

We spend a lot of time on our blog talking about personalized learning and how we work with districts and schools to create new, student-centered learning environments.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 13, 2016

We spend a lot of time on our blog talking about personalized learning and how we work with districts and schools to create new, student-centered learning environments.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Learning is most powerful when students feel valued, honored, and empowered. The teachers who leave the greatest lasting impact on their students are the ones who see them for who they are, often before the students even see this themselves.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The philosophies and strategies of the Coca-Cola Company played a large role in our upbringing and now shape our work as leaders of personalized learning. We've crafted 5 lessons inspired by Coca-Cola which we hope you will find useful, no matter where you are on your personalized learning journey.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

To many in the gardening and plant world, bonsais are among the most impressive trees. Bonsai is seen as a blend of gardening and art – a way to create living sculptures. A gardener might spend decades pruning the tree, little by little, year over year, so that it grows to the gardener’s exact vision.

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MAY 4, 2016

Actually it’s about totally the opposite - it’s about how personalized learning approaches are unique and how what personalized learning looks like depends on what the district is like….it it depends on their own DNA. It was an eye-opening experience.

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