Featured Articles

Ideas

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.

AI

Best Practices for Supporting AI Professional Development in Education

For over thirty years, I have conducted professional development for educators. I have recently created and presented dozens of AI presentations, workshops, and courses for K-12 districts and u...

Jerry Crisci

AI

AI and The Renaissance of the Polymath Reflections On AI-Enhanced Integrative Thinking

THROUGHOUT human history, there have always been those rare individuals who defied the boundaries of specialized knowledge, excelling across multiple disciplines with a breadth and depth that...

Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker

AI

AI and the Future of Community Colleges

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world around us, and education is no exception. As community college leaders, we must be at the forefront of this transformation, ensu...

Lee D. Lambert

Innovation

The Only Real Schooling Innovation Now That There’s AI

Now that there is AI on the scene, a new type of innovation is coming into play to change schooling America’s students. Yes, schooling is about to change, not just they paradigm of how clas...

LeiLani Cauthen

Share to Care

2025 Summer Reading List – Round 1

Learning Counsel is blessed to have many educator and technology industry friends who write interesting books. Here are our first recommendations for your Summer reading this year! Our own r...

LeiLani Cauthen

Perspective

Fueling Student Curiosity Through Esports: Innovation in 21st-Century Learning

Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I have vivid memories of immersing myself in the world of Atari, Nintendo, and Gameboy. Back then, it felt like technology had transformed the lives of chil...

Dr. Greg Harrison

Perspective

The Emergence of the Sentient Schooling Matrix by 2032

Most educators and indeed, consumers, are aware so far only of Generative AI. That’s because it is consumer-facing and we can directly interact with it. Generative AI is only the beginning, sha...

LeiLani Cauthen

Perspective

Why Personalization and Student Agency Are the Future of Education

During my four decades of education research, I've witnessed educators face disruptive forces that have magnified existing challenges: today we have AI, we've had COVID, we've ...

Dr. Yang Zhao

Share to Care

Bringing Back the Phone Call: Making It Work for Schools Today

A 40 percent jump in parent responses to conference scheduling. That’s what our district saw after introducing a new cloud-based phone system built right into our school-home communications p...

Gary Lambert

Innovation

What is Time AI?

Unlike typical scheduling tools, Time AI takes decision-making usually reserved for humans and automates it through dynamic, adaptive algorithms. The platform is more than just an intelligent...

LC Staff

Ideas

Career-Ready Students: 3 Priorities for Successful CTE Programs

Schools and districts across the country are seeing a growing demand for career and technical education (CTE). CTE is such an important and beneficial way for students to become career ready....

Dusty Moore

Perspective

We asked ChatGPT This and Found a New Administrative Imperative: Cognition, Connection & Care through Course-Building

We started by wondering what it means now that AI is on the scene as a source of information and knowledge for schooling. We posed a conjecture leading up to how it would change the teaching ...

LC Staff

Share to Care

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

Thoughts

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

Perspective

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

Perspective

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

Research

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

AI

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

Thoughts

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


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
Discussing the issues of student absenteeism, staffing and privacy might seem like biting off more than one leader can chew, but they are related from an important perspective: managing transacti...
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...