Featured Articles

Perspective

Students Flourish in the Spaces Between our Focus on the Core Curriculum

What two experts - one in leadership, one in EdTech - say anchors a student’s sense of well-being

Al Kingsley

Thoughts

Matters of Principal: Servant Leadership

Throughout this school year, we have addressed many different aspects of the all-important principal’s role. As this is the final installment in our monthly series, now is the time to explor...

Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay

Ideas

Service Learning: a Valuable Opportunity for Your Learners

On March 14th, the neighborhood school district took a freshman math class down to the local food pantry to serve pies. It was Pi Day. Students were learning about pi and the many application...

Zach Vander Veen

Perspective

Emotional Dysregulation: Support for Teachers and Students

It's been more than a year since schools returned to in-class instruction, and unsurprisingly, teachers are still reporting disruptive behavior and emotional dysregulation. According to ...

Chris Leonard

Thoughts

Choosing to be Kind

“Be Kind, for everyone is fighting a great battle.” - Unknown Nice. I don’t like that word. I never have. It feels so vanilla…quite inauthentic. When I was a young girl and my mother tol...

Tamara Fyke

Event News

Master the Troubling Tech Tribbles in Space at ISTE 2023

Get a Tribble for your Trouble Plan to join us for an Escape Room Trek! The issues of schools and teachers with lots of apps and outsized network impacts will be addressed at ISTE by Cisc...

Doug Cauthen

Ideas

Leveraging Technology in Teaching to Expand the Love of Learning

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series. When I think back to high school math, I remember feeling scared. Despite my love for the subject (math was always my favorite) an...

Stacey Roshan

Innovation

How AI is Changing the Education Landscape

AI is like any other new tool that has entered the arena of learning that enhances a student’s access to data and information to process and consume knowledge more quickly. Whether it be the...

Marc Booker, Ph.D.

Ideas

Closing Gender Gaps: How Educators Can Better Support Women in Superintendent Roles

Superintendent turnover has hit districts nationwide, leaving school boards scrambling to find permanent replacements. Research from the ILO Group found that since 2020, 49 percent of the co...

Dr. Aurelia L. Henriquez and Tiffany Law

Perspective

Now, Every School Can be a Community School: Making it Happen

Part Four: Transforming Data into Action Individualized Supports Expanding and tracking learning opportunities opens up the ability for districts to properly implement, monitor an...

Zach Vander Veen

Thoughts

Cognitive Skills and Math (Dis)Ability: Identifying the Links

While reading difficulties have been studied extensively in the last few decades, difficulties learning math have received less attention. Math disabilities, however, are as common as reading d...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Perspective

Now, Every School Can be a Community School: The Data Story

Part Three: Data is crucial In standards for Community Schools established by the Institute for Educational Leadership , data systems and protocols are in place to assure access to rele...

Zach Vander Veen

Share to Care

4 Tips for a Successful Districtwide Communication Platform Launch

Until last year, our district was using a number of different websites and platforms for school-home communications. Many of those platforms weren’t supported by our district, which takes a h...

Karl Weinrich

Ideas

Educators are Taking New LEAPS to Find the Right Edtech

Classroom technology adoption is at a tipping point. Fewer educators are asking what new EdTech can be added, and instead are asking what’s the right edtech to add. As the number of 1:1 devic...

Madeleine Mortimore

Thoughts

Now, Every School Can be a Community School: The Nitty Gritty

Part Two: The Nuts and Bolts By definition, the power of Community Schools resides in the local community. It is the identification, structuring and connection of the many assets within ...

Zach Vander Veen

Tactics

A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing for a Cybersecurity Audit

K-12 school districts put various security measures in place—from anti-malware to documentation—to protect their networks and applications from outside attacks. But what many don’t know is ho...

Charlie Sander

Ideas

Matters of Principal: Transition Time

The principal’s role is always multi-faceted, but never is a school leader juggling more different, yet equally important, agendas than during this time of year. There are clearly many import...

Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay

Thoughts

Community Schools Update: Now, Every School Can be a Community School

Part One: The Idea I heard this said in a meeting, by a very smart colleague, “Now, every school can be a Community School.” I had never thought of that before, much less spoken it aloud i...

Zach Vander Veen

Perspective

Challenges and Solutions: Tackling the Mental Health Crisis with Technology

America’s K-12 students are in a precarious position. While fallout from the pandemic and other societal trends have contributed enormously to increased anxiety, depression and stress among s...

Justin Reilly

Thoughts

How AI Interactive Presentation Tools are Revolutionizing the Education Landscape

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword across industries recently. Mainly the newly launched AI powered interactive presentation tools , is noteworthy. This tool is revolutionizi...

Mike Coumans


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...