Featured Articles
Undercover Threats in K-12 Schools: Ransomware
As digital learning possibilities expand, school districts have become major ransomware targets. Throughout 2021, 162 school districts were the target of a cyber incident, and for the first ti...
Rick Vanover
Matters of Principal: Committing to Monitoring
At this point of the school year, initial plans have been partially, if not fully, implemented. Mere implementation, however, most definitely does not ensure desired impact. It is now incumbent ...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
Reading in your free time: 6 enjoyable books for teachers
After a long day at work, unwind with a book. Alternatively, make the most of your free time on weekends and holidays. Here are some novels that we think you would like and those we've read and ...
Lucy Sanders
In a youth mental health crisis, we need to leverage remote work to retain clinicians
Last year, a national state of emergency in children’s mental health was declared by leading children’s health authorities, and there is a nationwide shortage of educators in schools who are equ...
Kate Eberle Walker
How to Become That Teacher
One of the attributes of a great teacher is the ability to open up new possibilities for their students. Every young person deserves to feel empowered to pursue opportunities, but students can’t...
Abby Dorsey
Using Online Learning to Build Global Awareness
Understanding diverse cultures and perspectives is essential for high school students as they prepare for careers in our increasingly global society. One of the best ways for students to experie...
Carol DeFuria
Navajo Nation Hit Hard with COVID-Related Issues
No running water or electricity? Sound like a third world country? No, it’s a fact of life for many on the Navajo reservation (about 37 percent of the Navajo Nation residents). This means the im...
Welda Simousek
Bringing Back the Joy of Teaching
On last year’s last day, many teachers packed up their classrooms, closed their doors, and said goodbye – for good. When schools closed throughout the country for the past few years, teacher...
Robyn Shulman, M.Ed.
Time for Your Mid-point Check-in
For many districts in the country, it is Fall Break, which marks the halfway point in the semester and a perfect time for a check-in. Perhaps, check-ins are new for you. We can be accustomed to ...
Tamara Fyke
Remediation of Cognitive Processes in Special Education Students
All signs point to training weak cognitive processes rather than bypassing them.
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Digital Citizenship: A Call to Educate and Prepare Learners
We live in unprecedented times of great digital advances and innovation. Technology is moving and changing rapidly across the world while connecting us in unforeseen ways. Today’s youth are digi...
Robyn Shulman, M.Ed.
Timing is Everything
I read a piece in one of the weekly education publications; a superintendent had been quoted warning of the funding cliff coming in two years. This supe seemed to be making the best of it, not s...
Charles Sosnik
Matters of Principal: Supporting Staff
In our previous column, The Pillars of Principalship , we stressed the importance of establishing foundational pieces that will provide the underlying support and structure for all stakehol...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
Can Brain Fitness be Education’s Moon Shot?
During global Brain Awareness Week, some seven years ago in March 2015, The Kennedy Forum convened experts at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, MA to consider perspectives and review (then) ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
The Problem with Education’s Problems: (Part 3) Achievement Loss
Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. In part one, we addressed the teacher shortage and found that it ...
LeiLani Cauthen
4 Tips for Supporting Students' Mental Health in an MTSS Framework
Educators are becoming increasingly concerned about their students’ mental health and well-being. Research has shown that isolation and loneliness were often associated with psychological sympto...
Essie Sutton
Intentionality Builds Trust with Students
One of our chief American ideals is self-reliance, as Ralph Waldo Emerson discussed in his famous essay. The great author encourages us to be fully ourselves, trusting our own instincts. Howev...
Tamara Fyke
Maximizing Student Engagement in Virtual and Blended Learning through Relationship Building
Education is an ever-changing and adapting trade that has educators constantly evolving to the conditions around us. Like the banded snails that continue to transform their colors to adapt to th...
Colleen Robinson
The Problem with Education’s Problems: (Part 2) Still Losing Students
Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. As stated in the first article, if the problem that is a...
LeiLani Cauthen
Classroom Communication Strategy: A Guide for Modern Classrooms
While many of us will have grown up with a lot of different teaching styles, both at school and depicted on television, it’s one thing to see other people teach, and another thing entirely to un...
John Allen
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
