Featured Articles
We Stand Together
I’m sure you have heard the news of the school shooting that occurred in our hometown of Nashville, TN. Our hearts are broken. And just the other week, my team spoke with a school system who ...
Tamara Fyke
Grading Your School? How do They Rate in the Science of Learning?
A number of state departments of education are working to remove the grading systems for schools that were established in the No Child Left Behind era. The idea behind those systems was tha...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
The Metaverse: The New Education Frontier and Why We Need It
Is it time for educators to rethink curriculum development? Are students ready to take the first steps? Is technology the way forward? The Barnes and Noble report “ Emerging from the pandemi...
Austin Yavorsky
Four Ways to Enhance Your Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking is plainly in decline. Everywhere we look, people are uncritically consuming and spreading information that is distorted, misleading, and sometimes intentionally deceptive. ...
Louis E. Newman
Science of Learning: The Cognitive Principles
Cognitive training (which is also called brain training) involves activities designed specifically to strengthen one or more cognitive skills. Some cognitive training programs focus on indivi...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
What America Needs to Tackle the Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Guide to MTSS In-School Mental Health Services, Tier 1
Editor’s Note: This is the second 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 ...
Duncan Young and Jerry Barone
Matters of Principal: Key Tenets of Principal Leadership
The essence of the principal’s role is a combination of school leader and school manager, and the leadership and management components are far from mutually exclusive. In fact, a strong manag...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
EdTech and the Classroom: How EdTech has Transformed the Way Teachers Teach and Students Learn
Editors Note: This is the first in a series Over the past decade, the thoughtful integration of educational technology (EdTech) in the classroom has significantly transformed the way we tea...
Kris Astle
Using Data to Address Student Equity
All children deserve a chance at success; this statement is one all educators and parents stand behind. Yet, in too many schools, there are students whose opportunities are limited by factors...
Beth Shermoen
How to Teach English & Science Together
According to the IDRA , there are currently 1 million emergent bilingual students enrolled in Texas public schools. Texas educates the highest percentage of emergent bilinguals in the Unit...
Robyn D. Shulman
How to Evaluate Literacy Programs that Promise to Accelerate Learning
Educators and schools are feeling great urgency to close learning gaps by accelerating learning and getting students back to grade level after the disruptions of COVID, even as the disruption...
Liz Brooke, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
She Blinded Me (with Science)
From my heart and from my hand Why don't people understand my intentions? --Oingo Boingo Education is moving from being based on folklore to being grounded in science at an ever-f...
Betsy Hill
Finish the Year Strong
Spring Break. For students and teachers alike, this is a much needed rest from the rigors of the classroom before the final chapter of the school year. However, there is a tendency to return ...
Tamara Fyke
Matters of Principal: Building Your Staff
This is the time of the school year when principals do their best to meet two very important, and very different, mandates: ensure a successful conclusion to the current school year and begi...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
How Speaking Two Languages Can Change Your Life
If you are an immigrant to America, were you the young person who supported your family until they learned English and could thrive? I once met someone fluent in three languages. He was quit...
Robyn D. Shulman
A Whole-Person Approach to Education for a Changing World
Our world has changed radically over the past two hundred years. Our education system has not. The foundation for our current Western education system was designed for a very different time, ...
Justin Bean
What Great Teachers and Great Salespeople Have in Common
For some, this comparison will seem obvious. For some, it will seem curious, at first blush. For some, it will seem preposterous, or even insulting. We hope that, like most good analogies, the ap...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Breaking the Cycle: Retain Teachers through Human Interaction
The complexity in the educational field lies in the harsh juxtaposition of a fulfilling and delightful profession overshadowed by unrealistic expectations put upon overachieving individuals w...
Kim Darche
Making Use of the After School Window for Wellness
According to the Afterschool Alliance , 6 in 10 parents are more concerned about their children’s emotional wellbeing than they were before the pandemic. Friendships and social connections are...
Tamara Fyke
Solving the Student Engagement Crisis
Supplemental online courses can make learning relevant for everyone and most schools now have the technologies needed to offer them.
Carol De Furia
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
