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Cultivating Healthy Connections with Students

Over the past 25 years of working with administrators and teachers around SEL, the pushback has been “I don’t have time for that” or “I don’t know what to do” or “I’m not a school counselor.”...

Tamara Fyke

Perspective

Digital Reading Platforms Can Help School Libraries Diversify Their Collections

Reading is an essential activity for developing vocabulary, fluency and the other foundational literacy skills that students need for success in school and in life. In addition, having a dive...

Betsey Lee

Perspective

Ultimate Guide to the New SAT: 5 Critical Things to Know

Put your pencils down; a major transformation is on the horizon for an iconic rite of passage for college hopefuls since its inception in 1926. The SAT will soon be shedding its paper skin to...

Tim Levin

Thoughts

Highlighting the Human Learner in Learning Environments

Over the past few years, learning environments have undergone significant changes, especially due to the pandemic. There has been a shift in what is considered an appropriate learning environ...

Ziho Kang

Perspective

Creating a Comprehensive Cybersecurity Awareness Program for a K-12 School

When examining cybersecurity breaches comprehensively, it becomes clear that human error constitutes the primary weak link regarding vulnerability. In previous times, schools could provide th...

Charlie Sander

Thoughts

The Blessed Cloth: Weaving the Minds of Today’s Learners

A perennial challenge for teachers has been weaving multiple subjects into a coherent whole for students. ELA is ELA, Math is Math, and Science is Science. Right? The standards have been defi...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Perspective

Literacy is a Civil Right

The benefits of knowing how to read go far beyond academic achievement. Literacy leads to personal empowerment, academic success, informed decision making, active civic participation, improve...

Liz Brooke, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Perspective

A.I. & the Seven Things that Make Us Human

With A.I. arriving in schools, questions of its use and possible threat to teaching and learning have erupted across the world. We looked back at what Learning Counsel’s 2022 National Digital T...

LeiLani Cauthen

Ideas

How to De-Jitter the Back to School Jitters

As a mom of three children, ages 25, 20 and 17, our family has had many first days of school ranging from preschool to college. No matter how old my kids are, every year they each deal with bac...

Tamara Fyke

Perspective

How to Leverage Technology to Promote Cybersecurity Awareness

The issue of cybersecurity in schools is not going away anytime soon. A worldwide survey conducted by cybersecurity firm Sophos between January and March involving 3,000 IT/cybersecurity le...

Charlie Sander

Ideas

How to Fix the Missing Piece Between ELL and Mainstream Teachers

It’s that time of the year again - back to School! Being an ELL or bilingual teacher comes with many gifts and challenges. What is one challenge you face the most in your professional teachi...

Robyn D. Shulman

Perspective

Closing Digital Divisions Requires Long-term Solutions

The ABCs of School Technology – Always Being Connected

Elliot Levine

Thoughts

Active Learning vs. Passive Learning: It’s All Active Learning

Like many topics in education, the debate between “Active Learning” and “Passive Learning” relies more on philosophy than science and uses the word “learning” when what is actually being disc...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Perspective

Children and Blue Light: What to Know about Digital Learning and Student Health

In the last few years, there has been a rising problem of children spending too much time glued to their gadgets. The CDC has recently released data on the average screen time for each age gr...

Ruby Doherty

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Second Chances: Transforming School Literacy

Four years ago, our school received the news that no one ever wants to hear: it had been labeled as “CIR” or comprehensive intervention required. As an “F” school, the 200-student institution h...

Michael Gollow

Ideas

Even if You are a Teacher or Principal, Your Children Can Experience School Avoidance. Here’s How to Tackle It.

As the summer draws to a close, the upcoming school year often brings with it a wave of excitement, as well as anticipation and nervousness for children. As a child psychiatrist, I have witne...

Dr. Douglas Newton

Perspective

Interactive Touchscreen Device Management: New Tech Strategies for Educational Institutions

While interactive touchscreen devices are by no means new, our new normal very much is. The global interactive display market has grown at a CAGR of 7.86% from $14.09 billion to $15.20 bi...

Nadav Avni

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Finding the Right EdTech Tool for Your School District

The U.S. education system has relied on digital learning tools for quite some time, though this was certainly exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent need for online resources. Su...

Harrison Parker

Thoughts

Skills for the Evolving Workforce: Emerging Trends and Practical Design Recommendations

A recent article prompted a series of questions from readers about skills. What do we mean by skills? What are the emerging skills needed for the workforce of the future? What steps can aca...

Julian L. Alssid and Kaitlin LeMoine

Ideas

Empowering Parents to Talk to Kids about Drugs as They Head Back to School

Editor’s Note: This is good advice for teachers, counselors and principals to share with parents when the subject of drugs invariably comes up. As the back-to-school season approaches,...

Karynne Witkin


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...