Featured Articles
We Thought We Were Communicating Well — Until We Looked at What Families Experienced
If you are a district leader and not communicating well, you will not be effective. Communication is foundational. Every superintendent and principal understands that. But what I’ve come to r...
Dr. Brian Prybil
Data Shows You the Attendance Pattern. Students Show You What to Fix.
Early in my career, I shadowed a 10th grader for an entire school day. By third period, I understood chronic absenteeism in a way no dashboard ever taught me: I was so monumentally bored that...
Dr. Kara Stern
What Just Happened: Edtech Collided with the Old Order
The nation’s second‑largest school district is bracing for a system‑wide shutdown on April 14, after United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and two other major unions announced they will strike if ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Bio-Machine AI vs. Humanity’s 4 Nested Fields of Intelligence
In one of the most astonishing scientific developments of our time , researchers have crossed a threshold once thought impossible: they have taken living biological brain cells from human...
LeiLani Cauthen
Relationships First: How a Human-Centered Approach Helped Bring Students Back to School
Across the country, school leaders are grappling with chronic absenteeism, a challenge that threatens not only individual student success, but the stability of our school systems and local com...
Dr. Josha Talison
2026 Trends & Predictions in Multilingual Literacy: Part Two — Building Sustainable, Equitable Systems
In Part One of this series , I explored how multilingual literacy is being reshaped through workforce alignment, English-plus policy shifts, linguistically responsive structured literacy, em...
José Viana, Ed.D.
How K–12 Leaders Can Drive Digital Transformation While Keeping People at the Center
As edtech grows more complex, school and district leaders must shift from managing tools to leading with vision. Here are three ways to do it well.
Dr. Matthew Joseph
Updating the Teacher Role to Stop School Decline
By design, K–12 schools were built for a world of scarce information and stable jobs. AI upends both The bottleneck is the operating system of schooling—especially how we define the teacher’s ...
LC Staff
Using a Year-Long College Essay Process to Help Students Find their Authentic Voice
At the boarding school where I work, our four college counselors guide 123 seniors through one of the most challenging parts of the college application process: the personal essay. The challe...
Shana Russell
4 New Schooling Imperatives for the Age of Omni AI: Why They Matter and How to Start
The Case for a New Foundation K–12 is colliding with a once‑in‑a‑century shift. Point solutions and isolated “AI tools” can’t resolve chronic problems—staffing shortages, enrollment erosion,...
LeiLani Cauthen
Courage as a Leadership Imperative in Public Education
Public education is operating in a moment of sustained volatility. A variety of political and ideological factors have fundamentally altered the leadership landscape for school systems. In th...
Dr. Luvelle Brown, Ed.D.
6 Key Factors for K-12 Leaders to Evaluate Classroom Tech in 2026
As we're heading into 2026, K-12 administrators have a tough job ahead: figuring out which classroom tech actually helps kids learn versus what just looks shiny and impressive. I'...
Lia Sanderson
The New Education Imperative: The 9 Human Intelligences Revised for the Age of AI
Education is operating on an obsolete definition of intelligence -- definitions that may also be silently creating great inequity. This will just not do in the Age of AI.
LeiLani Cauthen and LC Staff
Why Your District or Traditional School Will Have Fewer Students Next Year
An Explanation of the Gravitational Pull Toward Decentralized Education - Odds are below 35% that schools and districts retain their current form by 2040
LeiLani Cauthen
Preparing Kids for The Future of Work: Where Traditional Education Falls Short in an Increasingly Digital World
Traditional education models rely on providing rigid pathways for students to follow. They learn a particular way of solving problems and focus on achieving a specific outcome, rather than fo...
Ed Kim
Why “Free Communication Tools” Are Deepening Inequities and Creating a Two-Class System Inside Districts
For years, K–12 districts have relied on “free apps” to communicate with families—texting platforms, group-messaging apps, email blasts, social media groups, classroom apps with limited feature...
Chakrapani Appalabattula
2026 Trends & Predictions in Multilingual Literacy: Part One — From Biliteracy to Workforce Readiness
For decades, schools across the United States have worked hard to support multilingual learners, often relying on the same structures, goals, and definitions of success. Despite good intentio...
José Viana, Ed.D.
Behind the Numbers Are Students Who Haven’t Given Up
The key to improving graduation rates is simple but radical: meet learners where they are, treat them as people, and rebuild trust one relationship at a time.
Dr. Abby Andres
The Transformation of Education: From Factory-Mode Learning to Time-Orchestrated, Pace-Based Intelligence
For many educators, artificial intelligence is still understood primarily as a tool —something that assists lesson planning, generates assessments, or personalizes practice activities. While t...
LeiLani Cauthen
Digital & Virtual Resources to Bring America’s 250th Anniversary to Life in Your Classroom
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, as educators we have a unique opportunity to help our students explore the nation’s founding, growth, challenges, and future in meaningf...
LeAnn Simmerman
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
