Featured Articles
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.
From School Decline to Human‑Centered Renewal: 5 AI‑Driven Transitions
Schooling Reorganization Edtech Architecture Restructuring Teacher Role Refinement Expanded Human Intelligence Equity Curriculum Liquidity Across the country, schools are experiencing...
LeiLani Cauthen
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
What's New in K-12: Coherent Curriculum Intelligence
Education Finally Has the Means to Manage Human Variability Without Abandoning Coherence
LeiLani Cauthen
Eight States Quietly Begin Testing a New Operating System for Education Improvement as Federal DOE Releases Learning Agenda Playbook
The U.S. Department of Education officially released the Learning Agenda Playbook, a new framework designed to help State Education Agencies (SEAs) identify challenges, build evidence, and ma...
Doug Cauthen
Beyond the Dashboard: Why More Data Isn't Solving Chronic Absenteeism
When I visit our K-12 partners out on the road, I always ask to see their attendance dashboard. Five years ago the attendance dashboards used nationwide did not exist, but today, at the push o...
Toby Jackson
The Cognitive Training Debate Is Over. The Education Conversation Is Finally Beginning.
We know cognitive capacity can be strengthened. The question now is how education must change to put that potential to work for students.
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
How Mountain View School District Built Two Years of Attendance Gains by Fixing Contactability First
The California Department of Education has posted its statewide guidance on reducing chronic absenteeism — the research-backed playbook Education Code 48326 requires districts to have in pl...
Dr. Mercedes Gómez
Four Learning Myths—and What Educators Should Do Instead
A couple of years ago, if you asked an AI LLM to build you a differentiated lesson plan, there was a good chance it would have produced activities sorted by learning style: something visual for y...
Nathan Lang-Raad, Ed.D.
Will the ECCA Create the New Power Brokers of K-12 Education?
The newly passed federal Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) may create a powerful incentive not for strangers to fund other people's children, but for organized educational com...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher @ Learning Counsel News Media
Districts Are Reducing App Counts. Teachers Are Still Building Instruction.
For years, K-12 schools have been told that the problem was digital adoption. Get devices. Buy platforms. Add apps. Digitize curriculum. Move assignments online. Build dashboards. Track usage...
LeiLani Cauthen
What Districts Seeing Attendance Gains Have in Common: Lessons from 89 Districts That Are Reducing Chronic Absenteeism
Imagine the superintendent in the next district over tells you they cut chronic absenteeism in half last year, like Corsicana Independent School District in Texas reducing chronic absenteeism b...
Dr. Kara Stern
The Anti-AI Crusade in Schools: Alarmism That Risks Derailing a Generation
A growing coalition is sounding the alarm against artificial intelligence in K-12 classrooms, pushing for moratoriums, bans on student-facing tools, and sharp limitations—particularly in elem...
LeiLani Cauthen
Teachers: Lead the AI-Hybrid Revolution or Watch Your Role Disappear
Bold words, yes. The education sector stands at a tipping point. Economic pressures are mounting, traditional funding models are cracking, and AI-powered tools are ready to reshape how stude...
LeiLani Cauthen
The Source of the Anti-Screen and Edtech Rhetoric
I am craving a serious public debate about the anti-screen movement now influencing school policy. The problem is not that critics are asking questions about screen use — they should. The pro...
LeiLani Cauthen
The War on Screens Is Asking Teachers to Do the Impossible
Executive Summary: Current initiatives to significantly reduce or eliminate instructional screen use are well-intentioned but structurally incomplete. They address a visible classroom inpu...
Doug Cauthen
Chronic Absenteeism Is a Signal of System Failure, Not Just Student Behavior
School districts across the United States are facing persistently high rates of chronic absenteeism, even years after the pandemic disruptions that initially accelerated the problem. In respo...
LC Staff
The Science of Reading Adoption Gap: What Fordham's Recent Report Means for District Leaders
Forty-two states have passed Science of Reading legislation, requiring aligned professional development, banning three-cueing, or setting standards for instructional materials. The policy inf...
Karl Rectanus
AI Is Not the Strategy: Leadership Is
As school districts across America wrestle with artificial intelligence policy, implementation, professional development, and governance, many are discovering that AI adoption is less about t...
LeiLani Cauthen
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
