Featured Articles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Powering the Reading Revolution with Student Empowerment
By allowing students to show up as their authentic selves, educators can work to build confident, lifelong readers.
Yvette Manns
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
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
Light Sabers, Storm Troopers, and a Simulation of Hybrid Logistics to Combat Learning Loss and the Teacher Shortage at ISTE 2022
Over 200 school representatives played a specially hosted simulation of “uberized” learning at ISTE 2022 in New Orleans June 26-29 th . Presented by Learning Counsel in partnership with Cis...
Chris McMurray
Each Year a New Beginning
It is almost time for school to start again. It is like a renewal every year. As a retired educator, I remember well the way there was always a freshness with each school year beginning. A time ...
Christy S. Martin, Ed. D
Does Your Learner Struggle with Reading Comprehension Issues?
We often hear from parents that their child struggles with reading comprehension. Their child can “read” a text, but then can’t remember what they read or answer questions or do anything with th...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Educating 4.9 Million Multilingual Learners
If you are a multilingual teacher, you have made it through one of the most challenging times in history as an educator. Although the pandemic brought on trying times in education, there are alw...
Robyn Shulman
The Ever-Changing, Ever-Evolving, Ever-Growing Definition of Today’s Teacher
Are you a teacher? If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, discipliner, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? Maybe you ar...
LeiLani Cauthen
3 Keys to Building Individual Learning Capacity
Doesn’t everyone have the ability to learn? Of course. Learning is what our brains do. As we interact with the environment, the neurons in our brains make connections. Those connections are stre...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
3 Ways COVID Changed Higher Education Forever
Online Courses - New phone, who’s this? Prior to the pandemic, online courses were most often viewed as “less than”...lacking in sound pedagogy and without measurable and pedigreed outcomes....
Ryan Lufkin
Sweet, Sweet Land of Liberty!
My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From ev'ry mountainside Let freedom ring! If you grew up in the ...
Charles Sosnik
The Particularly Pleasing Power of Neuroplasticity
As the scientific community’s understanding of the brain increases, the knowledge reaching outside the research community does too. One concept that has strong scientific consensus and is starti...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
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
