Featured Articles
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
