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The National Summit on Education Reform: Providing Authentic Bipartisan Support for Meaningful Ed Reform and Ed Technology

Having been involved in education reform for some time, I know that it’s easy to end up getting frustrated and feeling like it’s just too difficult to accomplish anything. Often even common-sense ideas like tenure reform, higher standards and technology can get quickly shot down. Frankly, I didn’t have high expectations for the National Education Reform Summit held earlier this week in Washington, but I was pleasantly surprised. Shocked really. I saw another side of education politics, one where people who care about kids, and come from different partisan and ideological perspectives, find common ground. My spirits were lifted from the first night when I attended a reception at the magnificent National Archives (which is definitely worth a visit). Former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, the chairman of Foundation for Excellence in Education, welcomed the crowd. And, Joel Klein, former chancellor of the NYC public schools and an influential Democrat, introduced Governor Bush. Their mutual praise felt authentic, bipartisan and hopeful. Klein saluted the education reforms that took place in Florida while Bush was governor, reforms that were especially helpful to Latinos, and included tough accountability and generous school choice—often unpopular with Democrats. You could tell Klein was being totally sincere. So, there was nothing phony when Bush embraced Klein as “my brother for another mother!” They come from different places but they are in the same family when it comes to kids and schools.

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School Districts

Giving Thanks to Our Community

We hope that everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving Day festivities and is relaxing now with a fully belly and a mind at ease. The team at Education Elements wishes to say “Thank You” to all of our clients and partners who have worked tirelessly with us and on their own to deliver promising innovation in schools across the country.

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Curriculum Strategy & Adoption

November 27 Webinar: Selecting the Right Digital Content for Your District

Please join us on November 27, 2012 9 am PST/12 pm EST for an Education Elements Webinar:

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Blended Learning  |  Curriculum Strategy & Adoption

Digital Content Selection in the Fragmented Market Place

The goal of the Race to the Top District competition is to foster personalizing learning environments in schools serving under-resourced students. As a result, for many students, the classroom next year will look very different from the way it does now. When schools across the country open their doors in Fall 2013, thousands of students find themselves in a new type of classroom-a Blended Classroom. They will have all sorts of questions: “What are all of these laptops doing here?” “How exactly will you ‘blend’ our learning?” “What do you mean our lessons will be on the computer?”

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Get Set for RTT-D’s Next Phase: Implementation Planning

For those of you from the more than 371 applicants representing more than 1,100 districts across the country who spent many October nights frantically brainstorming, outlining, writing, editing, gathering support from stakeholders, crunching budget scenarios, and finally tracking down a CD-ROM (yes, they still make those) to send in your RTT-D application – congratulations on getting all of that done in such a short window of time. While now is the time to relax (a little), and return to your regular jobs, it is also an important time to begin thinking about what comes next. What do you do after you hear from the Department that the hard work paid off and that the check is in the mail? Here’s what you should be thinking about:

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Blended Learning  |  Professional Development  |  Teachers

Blended PD Emphasizes Differentiated Instruction

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