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Perspective

Five Things Every Student Should Know at Age 5, 10 and 15

Parents often worry about whether they’re doing enough to make sure their kids are ready for the future. “With all the conflicting information out there, it’s easy to get caught up in wonderi...

Legacy Online School

Thoughts

Changing Mindsets: The Benefits of Compliance for EdTechs

The education sector is increasingly relying on tech-enabled tools to enhance learning outcomes: a LearnPlatform report showed that school systems used 8% more tech tools than last year. As...

Mike DeCock

Ideas

From Crisis to Consistency: How Schools Can Sustain Self-Care Initiatives Year-Round

During my career as a school counselor, I’ve experienced numerous crises firsthand. I’ve counseled students after a school shooting and after the deaths of their peers in accidents and by sui...

Brandy Samuell

Ideas

Enhancing Student Learning Through Technology: A Guide for Educators

As technology continues to evolve, integrating these advancements effectively into the classroom has become essential for modern educators. While technology offers exciting opportunities to e...

Adam Sandman

Thoughts

Creating Lasting Self-Care Habits for Students in the Digital Age

Technology has transformed how we live, learn, work, and interact with others. For students, it has opened up a world of information and empowered them to take control of their education. But...

Andy Myers

Share to Care

Strong Leadership and Comprehensive Plan Creates Literacy Success

When I stepped into my role as Director of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, Secondary Schools at Friendship Public Charter School in June 2023, I was faced with a significant challenge. In th...

Tiffany Goodman

Thoughts

Tech Made Easy: Empowering Educators to Inspire the Next Generation!

As technology continues to evolve, more and more EdTech tools enter the marketplace. The use of these tools in classrooms has grown just as rapidly, with school districts employing an averag...

Kris Astle

Tactics

The Four Pillars of Effective Learning: Applying the Carroll Model to Empower All Students

Every individual grasps educational concepts differently, powered by their own curiosity, prior knowledge, and learning preferences. Consider your own learning and work preferences - when ass...

George Philhower

Ideas

Making Phonics Fun: Engaging Approaches for Modern Classrooms

Developing strong phonics skills in the early grades is essential for students to become fluent, independent readers. The science of reading shows us that when children know the letters of th...

Cheryl Lundy Swift

Ideas

Advice for Holiday Anxiety

Walk through any store, and you find holiday displays, promoting the purchase of giant inflatables or the latest Tik-Tok trend. The vibrant red and green decorations along with the jingle bel...

Tamara Fyke

Perspective

Without Comprehension, Is It Really Reading?

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series. We often hear from parents that their child struggles with reading comprehension. Their child can “read” a text, but then can’t re...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Share to Care

A Collaborative Framework for Teacher Leadership

In New York City’s public schools, providing a pathway to leadership encourages teachers to stay in their classroom and empowers them to profoundly impact their communities.

Michael Murphy and Abraham Ovalles

Ideas

The Importance of Phonics in Building Lifelong Literacy

Here are three key strategies for revitalizing phonics instruction in schools

Cheryl Lundy Swift

Thoughts

What Students Should Know About Digital Citizenship

A recent opinion piece in Education Week sums up the issues surrounding cell phones in schools quite well. Tom Moore, a high school IB teacher in New York City, wrote that the recent push t...

Al Kingsley

Ideas

It's Complicated: Why Edtech Companies and Educators Need to Improve Their Relationship Status

The early days of a partnership are always the most exciting, full of hope and possibilities for the future. You can’t wait to embark on this exciting journey with a partner who promises to m...

Doug Roberts and Bridget Duru

Perspective

Why you should care about developing soft skills in your district and what to do about it

Soft skills. Everyone has heard of them, but many people can’t define them. They are called durable skills, professional skills, life skills, enduring skills, career readiness skills and a host...

Lisa Riegel

Ideas

Building a Video-Infused Professional Learning Program

A districtwide practice of recording and reviewing lessons improves outcomes for teachers, education leaders, and students.

Dana Dudenhoeffer

Thoughts

Amid the Continuing Rise of Technology, Educators Can Play a Larger Role in Student Eye Health

For all of EdTech’s amazing benefits, it does have the downside of increased screen time. This has been largely linked with numerous health concerns, especially regarding ocular wellness. While...

Lena Bench

Share to Care

Sustainable Self-Care Practices for Educators and Students

Staff mental health has a ripple effect on student wellness and success. Here’s how schools can address both effectively.

Leslie Cole

Innovation

AI Calendaring is Breaking the By-Age Whole Group Pattern

We need you to contact us if you agree that a solution mentioned in this article should be explored. When we say, “breaking the by-age whole groupings,” you probably think of self-paced on...

LC Staff


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.

Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
K12 human resources are crucial to utilizing the cloud successfully. Roles and responsibilities have all changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, and a new trend to move to core co...
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missin...
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
Most administrators know there are still gaps remaining in their school or district’s digital transition. Recent studies including the 2021 Digital Transition Surveys for Administrators and Teache...
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and f...
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Seeing the Levels of Chaos Helps Anchor Bringing Order Schools and districts that recently lost 4 percent of students to alternatives continued to lose students in 2021 at an accelerated pace (no...
Hybrid Logistics Security
Your district is a brand, and your network security helps power its reputation. With the accelerated move to hybrid learning environments over the past year, school districts across the nation are...