Featured Articles
What Does the Metaverse Mean for Education?
The last two years have accelerated the evolution of our digital lives – to the point that life in the digital world and life in the physical world are one in the same. Educators and students me...
Lance Huang
How to Build Champions in the Classroom by Optimizing the Mind-Body Connection
We know that athletes who are successful at any level focus on optimizing both their body and their mind. They focus on caring for their bodies with a balanced and nourishing diet, proper hydr...
Nadine Levitt
This Is How AI Is Gaining Pace in Corporate Learning
The Education Technology (EdTech) market has been steadily growing for many years. In fact, within the next 5 years the EdTech market is projected to grow by 40% to over $20 billion. Artific...
Stefano Brusoni
Cognitive Skills and Wellbeing: The Relationship
Editor’s Note: This is part one in a three-part series Wellbeing is the word that is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. And for good reason. It is that single, intangible state th...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Find Your Growth Mindset and Build Intelligence
The concept of a “growth mindset” comes from the groundbreaking work of Dr. Carol Dweck , whose research has helped clarify why some people thrive on challenges and why others do not. She found...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Strange Days Indeed, Most Peculiar
Nobody told me there’d be days like these. If you are in administration, you are dealing with some very frightening numbers right now. Last week, Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen wrote an ...
Charles Sosnik
Community Schools: Connected to What Matters
Children do not exist in a vacuum. Community schooling encourages student wellbeing, teacher health and wellbeing, all in place to allow academic achievement and opportunity for students, their...
James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen
Hey… Let’s Play
A few years ago, I took my youngest son and his friend to Laser Quest . It’s the best laser tag place I know, full of two-story mazes covered in glow-in-the-dark paint. I had intended to sit an...
Tamara Fyke
1 Million New Teachers Needed in 2022: Welcome to Education’s Great Resignation & Re-Shuffle
Learning Counsel Research estimates that 32 percent of administrators in K12 education have quit or switched jobs within the last 25 months. A good number of those are Superintendency roles. Al...
LeiLani Cauthen
STEM, STEAM, Make the Dream
Considering the concept of collective effervescence, it is essential that we understand that the low numbers of students graduating with STEM degrees and the high numbers expressing disinterest ...
Christopher Emdin, Ph.D.
The Kids are Alright
“Sometimes, I feel I gotta get away Bells chime, I know I gotta get away And I know if I don't, I'll go out of my mind” --Pete Townshend, The Who If you believe everything you read, th...
Charles Sosnik
Mapping The Future of the Past
My department chair asked if I had ever heard of “mind maps.” Curious, I looked up some examples. The more I looked, the more it showed that this is a remarkable way to connect and unify informa...
Terrence Monroe
The Machines are Good at This
We spend a lot of time in education talking about the promise of technology in the classroom. Terms like “personalized learning” and “AI-driven instruction” and “adaptive learning” become buzzy....
Zach Vander Veen
Russian Cyber Criminals Leveraging Personal Identifiable Information (PII) to Target Education Sector
War in Ukraine may be thousands of miles away, but state-sponsored cybercrime is likely to put US schools at risk. Following western backlash against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Februar...
Rob Shavell
Technology Transforms a School into a Community
This may be the first time in history that the technology exists to make true community schooling a reality. Here’s what you need to know.
James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen
Do Not Let Them Be a Helicopter, but Rather a Responsive or Open-to-Learning Parent
It did not take us long after becoming parents to stop criticizing other parents, as we learned we could not always control our own kids. They can say the darnedest things. Art Linkletter was a ...
Professor John Hattie and Educator Kyle Hattie
Baton Rouge 2022 Educator Presentation: Family Engagement
In this presentation, we feature Jason Oller, Co-Principal at Hammond Westside Montessori School in the Tangipahoa Parish School System and Hilary Davenport, Montessori Magnet Specialist at ...
The LC Staff
Helping Students through Trauma
“One out of every four children attending school has been exposed to a traumatic event that can affect learning and/or behavior.” National Child Traumatic Stress Network, www.NCTSN.org ...
Franklin Schargel
What’s Working in Education
Right now, across much of the world, parents are holed up with their children and performing the role of educator, or else they are playing the role of a Hybrid educator, filling in part time ...
Zach Vander Veen
Understanding Mindsets-Based Social Emotional Learning
If there is one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s that we really have no idea what the future holds. Yet, we find ourselves teaching our children how to thrive in the world we live in, or a...
Jeff Waller
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.
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
Hybrid Logistics Security
