[Guest Blog Post] We Came…We Saw…We Blended!
“It will transform your teaching!” “It’s new and exciting!” “We need teachers to “opt-in” and give it a shot!” We learned about it, opted-in, and spent many days over the summer figuring out how it...
View Article10,000 hours never made me a concert violinist…why personalized learning with...
[Re-post from edfactors.com] In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success, he famously talks about the 10,000 hour rule – right or wrong he talks about needing 10,000 hours of practice to...
View ArticleOne Not-so-Insane Summer List for Educators That You Would Be Crazy To Not Read
It is well-documented that summer learning loss is real for students, with kids losing up to two months of mathematical computational skills during their break, and low-income students falling behind...
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Highlight, Our PLP, And What is a PLP Anyway?
While our focus is on districts, I recently met with one of the premier private schools in New York City, which charges $40,000 per year tuition. Based upon what I can see, the teachers were very much...
View ArticleA is for Awesome Team
One of the beautiful things about startup life is that you often get to wear many hats depending on the needs of the organization or, sometimes, just the time of day. As Education Elements’ office...
View ArticleWhat Does Educational Success Look Like? Depends on Who’s Doing the Looking
An executive in my office has a favorite mantra, one that has become so familiar to everybody in our company that at meetings, celebrations, conferences—really, any gathering of two or more...
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Education Data is Helping Us Learn
More learning is happening online and education data is growing quickly. Big amounts of education data are empowering the Educational Data Mining (EDM) research field which develops methods for...
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Remembering a teacher who taught me more than English
It’s back to school time! Crayons sit in neat rows with untorn wrappers, the copier is fully functional, and the hallways are clean. A phenomenal staff and incredible resources are on standby, ready to...
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A Top 10 List of Back-to-School Memories That Was So Good It Became a Top 20
Depending on where you live, students are back in school or counting down the days until it happens. I asked our team to share some of their memories about back to school – from when they were a...
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Why We Chose Blended Learning (Guest Blog Post)
It is hard these days to look at any educational advertising or product without seeing the word blended learning attached in some fashion. This product purports to add to your blended learning...
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