Featured Articles
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 Sports to Engage Students in STEM Learning
Educators constantly search for ways to engage students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). These subjects are foundational for preparing students for the future work...
Haley MacLean
Teaching Creativity, Collaboration, and even Self-Confidence with Robots
Our students are growing into a world where they will find themselves sharing their space, work, and lives with more and more robots. More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s u...
Hunter McConnell
Schools Need to Quit these Assumptions
Something much bigger is happening in America than leaders in education are even considering. It’s a vast shift awaiting a new structure to the form of schooling which is inhibited by old ass...
LeiLani Cauthen
Common Phrases, Not Fancy Words, Make You Sound More Fluent in a Foreign Language
Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research suggests that there is a close relationship between formulaic expression ...
Kotaro Takizawa and Shungo Suzuki
The Future of Education in the Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence is no longer an emerging tool. It’s a transformative force reshaping how, why, and where we learn. As we move deeper into the Age of Intelligence, education is evolvin...
Dr. Ja-Naé Duane and Steve Fisher
What's New in Child Care Legislation and Policy
Early care and education (ECE) is finally receiving the attention it has long deserved as a major public discourse topic. It is now widely recognized as a bipartisan issue, with both sides agre...
Jamee Herbert
Using Technology to Break Through Literacy Roadblocks
When I joined Jacksonville Lighthouse Charter School two years ago it was an F-rated school. Only about 10 percent of students were reading at grade level (across all grade levels), so need...
John Osborn
Why Most Students Now Need Tier 2 Support—and Why Comprehensive Integrated Cognitive Training Is the Core
In schools across the country, the number of students struggling to meet grade-level expectations has increased following the pandemic and has not responded as hoped. While Tier 2 interventio...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
The Special Ed Crisis
Before today's tumult, special education in the U.S. was already in crisis. It's just that now, the general public is paying attention to special ed. Indeed, the public should be en...
Coral PS Hoh, PhD
Three Ways to Leverage Insight into Students’ Web Use for Better Outcomes
Being proactive about safety and security means anticipating possible threats and addressing them before they become problems later on. Public health and safety officials would agree that a...
Steve Stolfi
How Career Readiness and Personalized Learning Are Shaping the Future of Education
Is your school ready to prep students for careers that don’t even exist yet? That’s not a futuristic "maybe later" question—it’s happening right now . From robotics to renewable en...
Paul Copioli
Higher Ed and the AI Revolution: Prepping Undergrads
A college junior asked me, "Do you think AI will affect much of our lives?" College students are ill-prepared, even when change has accelerated dramatically. The pace of change ha...
Coral PS Hoh
Stop the Vanishing Act: Three Ways Schools Can Keep Track of Their Tech
In an era where accessible technology is essential for academic success, schools invest heavily to ensure all students have access to critical digital tools like laptops, iPads, and Chromeboo...
Shane Foster
From Feeling Unseen to Unstoppable: How Schools Can Be the Stage for Every Child’s Standing Ovation
Imagine the thrill of stepping onto the “America’s Got Talent” stage, your heart pounding with uncertainty, unsure if you truly belong among the stars. The lights are blinding, the judges int...
Dr. George Philhower
The Unfolding Vision of AI and Project Based Learning
The next world is AI-integrated, project-driven, future-focused, and human-inspired Is AI bad? Is AI good? Should we recoil in fear or embrace a new technology that some believe holds the ...
Thom Markham
The Impact of Cognitive Skills Training on Reading
In the first article in this two-part series , we examined the reading skills identified in “the science of reading” – that is, decoding (with an emphasis on phonics and phonemic awareness),...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Strategies to Help Multilingual Learners with Second Language Acquisition
Learning a new language is a topic that is close to my heart. My interest in the beauty of words, interacting with different cultures, studying linguistics, and the art of writing has taken m...
Robyn D. Shulman, M.Ed.
Improving Student Literacy: The Time for Change Is Now
As educators, we all know that reading is the cornerstone to students’ academic success. However, when it comes to developing students’ reading fluency and comprehension, one thing has become...
Dr. Carolyn Brown
AI Agents and the Future of Digital Labor in K12
2025 has been dubbed the “Year of the AI Agent” by tech giants like Marc Benioff and Sam Altman. What could this mean for K12 education this year and in the years to come? Created using Cha...
Graham Foreman
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
