Featured Articles
Horizon Room: What is a K12 Process and Tech Model Architecture
By now, most of you are familiar with the Horizon Room Open Mic series. It is an opportunity for educators to be a part of a high-profile discussion on many of the important issues facing edu...
Doug Cauthen
Holiday Advice to get through the Holiday almost Stress-Free
Holidays can be stressful no matter your family. But what about families that don’t always get along? Whether it’s past tensions, differing opinions, or general annoyance of bringing the who...
Tamara Fyke
Cybersecurity Protection – Is your District Insurable?
In January 2022, 3,000 schools were caught up in a cybersecurity incident. And the number of attacks continues to increase. Because of the increase in cybersecurity attacks against schools,...
Robert Iskander
How To Best Support Introverted Students
Is your student an introvert? If you are a teacher, can you define these personality characteristics regarding your students? With the ever-growing focus on the social, emotional, and devel...
Robyn D. Shulman
Horizon Room: Master Schedule Flexibility to Attract and Retain Students
Welcome to the next episode of the Horizon Room’s Open Mic series, a place where the education community can be part of a high-profile discussion on the challenges that need solutions. Your ...
Doug Cauthen
2022 is History. What’s next?
2022 will go down in the annals of education history as a milk toast year. Or perhaps, a breather year. After the amazing heroics of 2020 and the outstanding recovery of 2021, 2022 was a year w...
Charles Sosnik
A Tale of Two Districts
What do a district with 1180 students and a district with 6800 students have in common? More than you might think. In this Educator Guest Speakers presentation at the Learning Counsel’s Denver ...
Doug Cauthen
Denver Area Administrators Panel Discussion
It’s safe to say that some of our nation’s best education minds can be found in the Denver, Colorado area. And at the Learning Counsel’s Denver Learning Leadership Symposium, they could be foun...
Doug Cauthen
A multisensory, tech-enabled foundational reading curriculum based in the science of reading
The newest generation of Reading Horizons Discovery pairs multisensory methods with a new tech-enabled delivery system to help educators deliver effective instruction based in the science o...
Doug Cauthen
Matters of Principal: Reflect, Recognize & Relax
The upcoming holiday season provides a natural break in the school year. The next few weeks is an ideal time for administrators to reflect on the past few months, as well as project how the ...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
How Prioritizing Teachers’ Mental Health Directly Affects Student Outcomes
We have to talk about the elephant in the room. Our teachers are tired . They are running on fumes, trying as hard as they can to show up for our kids while covering for staffing gaps as mor...
Nadine Levitt
Atlanta Panel Discussion 2022: Passion that Works
In the Learning Counsel’s Regional Learning Leadership Symposia, the final act is always the Administrator’s Panel Discussion. These tend to be chock full of common sense solutions, and are pre...
LC Staff
Dr. Ehsan Kattoula: How Cobb County Approached Digital Transformation
Throughout his career, Dr. Ehsan Kattoula, Assistant Superintendent for Accountability in Cobb County, has asked the tough questions. For example, in the state of Georgia, there was the Georgia...
LC Staff
Lessons from a Peanut Butter Cup: Teaching and Tech Must Go Hand in Hand
The Horizon Room is a concept born out of the need for a national forum to tackle important issues in education. In this episode of the Horizon Room, your hosts LeiLani Cauthen, CEO of the Le...
LC Staff
Follow The 3E Formula to Evaluate an EdTech Product
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 percent from...
Robyn Shulman
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Everywhere You Go
And somehow, the brilliant mega-retailers arranged for every little morsel to be laid out along the Christmas trail to bring us right up to (and beyond) the blessed event. It started with Bla...
Charles Sosnik
Learning Ideas That Just Won’t Die: Let’s Bury Them Anyway
One of the positive things to come out of the pandemic is our newfound ability to look an outdated concept in the eye and say, “Enough!” In less than three years, we have grown the ability to...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
ScribOrder helps schools process student records requests online in minutes, not days
ScribOrder from Scribbles Software is an online records processing and payment system for K-12 school districts. Touted as a game-changer by districts across the country, ScribOrder drastically...
Doug Cauthen
Spring Forward to Better Learning Opportunities
No sooner does it seem like we have fallen back for Fall, then it is time to Spring forward for the Learning Counsel’s Spring events. Yep, the Learning Counsel has announced their schedule of 2...
Charles Sosnik
Weekly NewsBriefs 11/14/22 - 11/20/22
1 in 5 schools spend less than 1% of their IT budgets on security – My Micah Ward, District Administration Despite the various efforts of federal agencies and lessons learned by large ...
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
