Featured Articles
The State of Digital Records Access – What Your Schools Need to Know
The way communities interact with their schools has changed significantly, especially over the last few years, and understanding a community’s wants and expectations is critical to being able t...
Misty Reinhardt
Leveraging the Power of Cognitive Ability
In the learning process, better teaching, better facilities and better technology are important, but those are external factors. More important are the internal capabilities and stumbling blo...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Refreshingly Right-Fit Career Learning for Every K-12 Student
It’s so refreshing to find edtech companies thinking about how things are now versus trying to still sell products and services to how it used to be. You know, prehistorically before the pa...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
Live @ ISTE – An Escape Room Trek to the Future of Teaching and Learning
While at ISTE, Learning Counsel News Media and Research co-hosted an adventure like no other breakout at the conference. A professional development exercise not to be missed! Cisco ran the “Es...
LC Staff
The Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Awareness Programs in Schools
Cybersecurity awareness is paramount in an increasingly digital world, especially in K-12 education. Cyber threats pose significant risks to schools, making it essential to measure the effectiv...
Charlie Sander
What America Needs to Tackle the Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Guide to MTSS In-School Mental Health Services, Tier 3
Editor’s Note: This is the final article of a four-part series on the student mental health crisis and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for in-school mental health resources. An overvi...
Duncan Young and Jerry Barone
Live @ ISTE – Digital Curriculum that is more Human
LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News stopped to interview David Cisneros, the National Director or Content and Implementation at Curriculum Associates during ISTE. Cauthen mentioned tha...
LC Staff
Live @ ISTE – Smarter Digital Hall Passes
While roaming the hallways of the ISTE conference, there appeared SmartPass, a brand new app for hall passes with a unique workflow. “Let’s say the student wants to go to the bathroom,” said...
LC Staff
Live @ ISTE – What 576 Billion Data Points Said about EdTech
LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News met up with Karl Rectanus, SVP, K12 Strategy at Learn Platform, which is newly a part of Instructure. Rectanus discussed the findings of a recent st...
LC Staff
Live @ ISTE – 1st Educational Virtual Reality Theme Park
LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News met with Chris Klein, Head of Education at Avantis during ISTE. Imagine someplace called Avantis World and being able to take your students to the moon,...
LC Staff
Untethering Teachers
LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News stopped to interview Remi Del Mar, Senior Product Manager for K-12 Projectors at Epson America during ISTE. While the video didn’t all come out great...
LC Staff
Ensuring School Safety: The Importance of Comprehensive Protocols
In recent years, school safety has become a paramount concern for educators, parents, and students alike. At The Harley School, an independent Nursery through Grade 12 school in Rochester NY,...
Brandon Haskell
Neuro Balance: Color Code Your Mental State to Prevent Burnout and Perform at Your Best
In our fast-paced, hyper-connected world defined by the pressure to do more than ever before, it’s no wonder that today’s workforce is in the throes of a burnout crisis. It’s this crisis that h...
Katerina Lengold
How AI Can Help Improve Test Scores
Test scores in the US are trending downward. In September 2022, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NEAP) revealed that math and reading scores among 9-year-olds had reached hi...
Joseph Wilson
Live @ ISTE – K-12 Computer Sciences
LeiLani Cauthen interviews Dr. Whitney Dove, CEO, Ellipsis Education and Sena Hineline, VP of Product and Operations about their fully online digital curriculum for K-12 Computer Science in th...
Doug Cauthen
Live @ ISTE – Digital Paint by Numbers and Hands-on Student Puzzles
Meet a way to create engagement with students co-working on digital puzzles to find the answer in the image! Also, hands-on sticker-puzzles. LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News visit...
Doug Cauthen
Live @ ISTE – Bringing Order to School Communications
Today’s parents are quite use to constant texting and communications with their families and have huge expectations of frequent communications with the schools where their children are enrolled...
Doug Cauthen
Live @ ISTE – Causing Connectedness…and Perpetual Digital Licensing
Listen in as LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel meets with John Costilla, Chief Mktg & Innovation Officer, at Capstone. The biggest news here is that Capstone solutions can provide a “per...
Doug Cauthen
Live @ ISTE – Real Help with Teacher Shortage
Learning Counsel’s LeiLani Cauthen interviewed Rick Perkins, Vice President, Innovative Instructional Models at Stride Learning Solutions at ISTE. “We’re at a crossroads in education, a te...
Doug Cauthen
Live @ ISTE – New Digital Strategies at Renaissance
LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News chatted with Gene Kerns, the Chief Academic Officer of Renaissance. Kerns first mentions that Renaissance has had a lot of growth, some eight acquisit...
Doug 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.
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
Hybrid Logistics Security
