Featured Articles
Is it Too Little: Or Too Late?
Tick Toc. Approximately 13,800 district superintendents are staring down the barrel of a September 30 deadline. That’s the date that all those ESSER funds must be committed. Here it is, Sept...
Charles Sosnik
Matters of Principal: The Pillars of Principalship
Editor’s Note: This new monthly column, Matters of Principal, will address key issues that school leaders will confront over the next ten months. The focus of these monthly columns will pa...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
5 Silver Linings in Education After the Pandemic
School is back in session for the 2022-2023 school year, and we are about to embark on a new journey. For most students and teachers, it’s been two long years of transitions, significant cha...
Robyn D. Shulman
Addressing the Impact of the Pandemic’s Lingering Learning Gap
Schools continue to explore new ways to address the impact of COVID-19 on our learners. As leadership teams around the country consider the most effective options to help close the learning gap ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
How Do You Spell Relief?
Sometimes, you just need to let it all go. I’m not suggesting that you give up. I’m just saying that when the stress builds to a boiling point, you stop, take a breath, and allow the stress to...
Charles Sosnik
Staying Ahead in STEM: How Problem Solving Keeps Advanced Students Challenged
The gap between the most and least prepared students has always been wide in most classrooms. During these last two pandemic years, however, that gap has turned into a chasm. Though there are...
Chris Smith
Have You Seen My $130 Billion?
Okay. I am officially in the Twilight Zone. For the life of me, I don’t understand why schools aren’t going crazy over the $130 Billion (+) still left to be spent from the various stimuli fund...
Charles Sosnik
School and District Leaders: Practice Compassionate and Authentic Leadership (on Yourself)
We leaders are under tremendous pressure, not only to do the work of the organization but also to care for those who do the work alongside us. For that reason, our days are long, and the task li...
Tamara Fyke
The Reality of School Starting: No More Free Lunches?
School starts early here in East Tennessee and this week was its beginning. While school has barely started in my community, one thing is evident. There are no free lunches. Social media has r...
Christy S. Martin, Ed. D
Education, the Brain and Learning Outcomes
It may seem trite to say the brain is where learning takes place and therefore we need to know about the brain when we consider how to improve learning outcomes. But until the late twentieth cen...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
4 Steps to a Successful SEL School Transition
After several years of using a homegrown social emotional learning (SEL) approach, our district decided it was time for a more official curriculum that would support our middle and high scho...
Anita Mattek
10 Ways to Encourage Youth Entrepreneurship
In 2010, world-renowned education and innovation expert, the late and great Sir Ken Robinson released a short animated film, titled Changing Education Paradigms . In the video, Robinson a...
Robyn Shulman
The Best is Yet to Come
“Still, it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine” --Frank I was tempted to quote Dickens for this one; that trite and qui...
Charles Sosnik
Does Brain Size Matter?
When I talk about the brain in professional development trainings, I often ask participants to put their two fists together. That, I tell them, is about the size of their brain. Typically, every...
Betsy Hill
Reach for Responsiveness: Strengthening MTSS/RTI Efforts with a More Responsive Approach
Everyone knows the RTI Triangle with the red/yellow/green shading because it basically appears on every type of instructional resource. Unfortunately, the prominence of the triangle itself hasn’...
Brooklin Trover
Network of Expo Achievement Schools - Horizon Room Open Mic Sessions
The Horizon Room, hosted by the Learning Counsel, is a space for educators to come together to share challenges, solutions and innovations, or just bounce ideas off other like-minded professional...
The LC Staff
Sleep and Cognitive Functioning
As the new school year begins, it is important to review some recent research about sleep and cognition. New information makes it even more clear how important sleep is to learning and memory, b...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Here's What to Look for When Evaluating an EdTech Resource
Did you know that in 2021, the global edtech market was valued at USD 106.46 billion? Furthermore, the annual growth rate in education technology is expected to grow by over 16.5% from 2022 to...
Robyn Shulman
How School Districts Can Keep Pace with Students Eager to Bypass Security
As K-12 teachers struggle to keep their hybrid digital/in-person classes on track and districts move to shield schools from increasingly frequent ransomware attacks, there’s a growing threat und...
Paul Hafen
The Real Key to Teacher Wellbeing and Ultimately, Retention
This past week I led a professional development session for some new teachers at a school with which I have been working for several years. The Executive Principal and Assistant Principal also ...
Tamara Fyke
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
