Featured Articles
New Teachers Teaching New Readers? Follow Five Facets of Structured Literacy
In the beginning… Back-to-school jitters are real, for teachers and students. Every fall I think of teachers who are doing new things. Teachers all over the country are starting their first ...
Diana Phillips
The Problem with Education’s Problems - Part 1 – The Teacher Shortage
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approa...
LeiLani Cauthen
Is Your Monitoring Software Putting Your Students’ Privacy at Risk?
As kids go back to school, the last thing they should have to worry about is whether or not their schools are breaching their privacy. But this school year, students, parents, and educators ne...
Rob Shavell
The Science of Reading and the Science of Learning
Education is moving from being based on folklore to being grounded in science at an ever-faster pace. The sciences that are playing a greater role encompass both “traditional” education research...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
