Featured Articles
The Age of AI Is Really the Age of the Learner
“There will be a shift in demand toward higher cognitive skills. Our research also finds a shift from activities that require only basic cognitive skills to those that use higher cognitive s...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Three steps to a robust zero-trust architecture for K-12 schools this academic year
As the buzz around back-to-school season subsides and teachers and students fall into the rhythm of a new academic year, it’s time for K-12 administrators and district leaders to turn their a...
Charlie Sander
Best Practices for AI Upskilling: Four Culture Building Strategies
As AI continues to grow in acceptance and use in the workplace the need for AI upskilling has become essential for employers who want to leverage the power of these new and exciting tools. Ho...
Marc Booker, Ph.D.
The power of simple: Unified communication strengthened trust in Passaic Schools
When Passaic Public Schools set out to improve family communication, our goal wasn’t to add another tool. It was to simplify—and build continued trust. In a district serving nearly 12,000 st...
Dr. Joanna Antoniou
How Two Kentucky School Districts Navigated Senate Bill 181 with Confidence
When Kentucky’s Senate Bill 181 passed in 2024, it set a new bar for protecting students and safeguarding staff by requiring all districts to adopt a trackable, traceable communication platfo...
Tiffany Blazina and Amy Hill
Stop Closing Schools: AI Logistics Allows Strategic Retreat to Satellite Lounge Schooling
Summary; Satellite Lounge schooling changes and gains Time AI as a solution Key concepts Budget hypothetical Stop closing schools -- close your budget gaps. Consolidation to central ...
LeiLani Cauthen
2025 Bond Bonanza, but Looming Transition Away from Factory-Model Schooling Using AI
Across the United States, 2025 marked another year of intense activity in school district bond elections. Districts large and small asked voters to approve billions in general obligation bond...
Learning Counsel Research
AI vs. Human Intelligence - the Differences
How exactly are humans different than what AI can be made to do? Learning Counsel Research found that merely saying “creativity” or “critical thinking” was not enough. The actual mechanics...
LeiLani Cauthen
If Jan Brady Were in Middle School Now
Anyone who grew up watching "The Brady Bunch" remembers Jan's exasperated cry: "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" The quintessential middle child, overshadowed and forgotten. ...
Dr. Kara Stern
The Issues of Moving to Omni-AI Schooling to Escape the Factory Model
The idea of an AI schooling model has caught on already in K12. Not as a “tool,” but with AI as an infrastructure. Not as teacher-less, but more humanized, using teachers precisely and unbu...
LeiLani Cauthen
Reimagining the Paraeducator Role to Strengthen Special Education
I’ve spent my career working in and alongside special education teams, and I’ve never seen the need for paraeducator support as urgent as it is today. While districts around the country are f...
Dr. Kathleen Adolt-Silva
CRAFT is the New STEM Converse
In the newly human-first era where automation, globalization, and digital abstraction are still reshaping our economy and culture, research and trends show it’s time for K–12 schooling to piv...
LeiLani Cauthen
The Great Digital Convergence: AI + Digital Literacy What School Principals Must Know for 2026
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Ernie Delgado
Why We Need AI and The Problem Of Data
Education is a uniquely human enterprise where ROI is measured by student success.
Roland Antoine
Human Intelligence Characteristics
This is Chapter 7 from the book, The Human Singularity Many people are trying to define what humans have for intelligent characteristics that machines do not. Unfortunately, they are mostly pe...
LeiLani Cauthen
9 Vectors of AI Getting to The Root of Learning Innovation
Education has always been fertile ground for innovation. From redesigned classrooms to digital platforms, reformers continually search for new ways to reach every child. Too often, change is ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Omni-AI can Take the Factory Model to Efficient Learning Ecosystem – Saving at least $40B a Year
K–12 education in the United States is still largely executed through a factory model, with the teacher as the central decision hub. Every teacher is expected to plan lessons across academic ...
LC Staff
Screenless AI Is the Literacy Innovation We Didn’t See Coming
The first 1,000 days last a lifetime. Those first three years are when a child’s brain builds the pathways for language, learning, and connection. Miss that window and it becomes much harder ...
Jeff Piontek
The Fear That Had No Proof
It was 1973 and time for my first expository writing experience in third grade. Narrative writing, stories, were easy, even enjoyable. Things were about to get complicated as sources beyond m...
Roland Antoine
Featured Papers
The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.
Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.
Addressing Crises in School Absenteeism, Staffing and Privacy: Using a human touch tech solution
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
