Featured Articles
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
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
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
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
Closing Digital Divisions Requires Long-term Solutions
The ABCs of School Technology – Always Being Connected
Elliot Levine
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
