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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

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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

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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

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Live @ ISTE – An IWB from Classin with Space for Everything

LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News stopped to interview Ted Mo Chen, the VP Globalization at Classin, a new Interactive Whiteboard company at ISTE. This is not your grandfathers IWB.  ...

Doug Cauthen

Video

Live @ ISTE – School Robot Guides

Imagine if you did change the logistics of your learning delivery and suddenly students were on self-paced paths just like the vision of Hybrid Logistics .  This means a disaggregation of w...

Doug Cauthen

Perspective

Students are Education’s Most Under-Utilized Asset

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats In education, almost everything changes. Almost. Technology changes. 30,000 years...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Thoughts

New Strategies to Reverse Declining Math Scores

On June 21st, the U.S. Department of Education released the latest findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trends assessment of math performance among...

Ben Grimley

Ideas

From the Librarian: Students Reading Habits Continue to Change

Digital titles and ebooks often complement traditional, paperback books, but the COVID-19 pandemic flipped things upside down in education. Like its impact on most things in our lives, it pus...

Stacy Cameron

Perspective

Cybersecurity for K-12: What Are the Risks and Mitigation Strategies?

All educators hold a huge responsibility in identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks. Many people wrongly assume that cybersecurity falls solely under the watchful gaze of the technolog...

Charlie Sander

Thoughts

What America Needs to Tackle the Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Guide to MTSS In-School Mental Health Services, Tier 2

Editor’s Note: This is the third 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 overview of t...

Duncan Young and Jerry Barone

Ideas

5 Reasons Why Ebooks Are Powerful for ELL Learners

When I taught ESL at the elementary and middle school level, I noticed a pattern forming that took place quite often when new students arrived in my classroom. The pattern was almost a given ...

Robyn D. Shulman, M.Ed.

Perspective

3 Ways AI Can Help You Achieve Your L&D Goals

We’ve heard plenty about how AI is disrupting education: 30 percent of college students report using ChatGPT for written assignments . Khan Academy is testing out AI “tutors.” Schools are ...

John Blackmon

Thoughts

Start Optimizing Your Joy and Success with the “Layer Cake” Method

We all want to be both successful and happy, but most of us struggle with finding the delicate balance between joy and growth. It often seems that focusing on one aspect comes at the expense ...

Katerina Lengold

Ideas

Beating Back the Summertime Blues

“It's summertime, summertime, Sum-sum-summertime. Summertime, summertime, Sum-sum-summertime, Summertime, summertime, Sum-sum-summertime. Summerti-i-me” --The Jamies Summer is...

Tamara Fyke

Ideas

MTSS: That’s the Way We Spell Success

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) has become an incredibly effective framework for increasing student success. We’re big fans of practical methods for supporting students, and MTSS is ...

Zach Vander Veen

Thoughts

The Importance of Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Tutoring

School districts nationwide are using high-impact tutoring to accelerate students’ reading and math skills and help close learning gaps, and research has linked this practice with improved ...

Gaelle Belhseine

Perspective

Debating the Future of AI: 15 Ways to Have Productive, Civil Conversations on Contentious Tech Topic

Expert offers roadmap for having civil discourse on artificial intelligence—the preeminent hot-button tech topic spurring heated discussions and disagreements

Merilee Kern, MBA

Perspective

Online Footprint Reduction Is Key to Stopping Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware attackers’ favorite target used to be big corporations. Then, last year, they shifted to attacking public institutions like hospitals and state and local government offices . No...

Rob Shavell

Thoughts

Science of Learning: Why it Matters

The science of learning uses research from a range of disciplines, including cognitive psychology, education and especially neuroscience to understand how learning occurs in the brain and how...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Ideas

Leveraging Technology in Teaching: Transforming the Learning Experience

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. In this article, we continue to explore strategies that enable all students to comfortably share their ideas, while recognizin...

Stacey Roshan


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...