Featured Articles
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
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
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.
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Dr. Derek Bub, Superintendent of Schools, West Ada School District
One of the stars of the Boise Digital Transition Discussion was Dr. Derek Bub, Superintendent of Schools at West Ada School District. His presentation, a recap of the many challenges and sub...
The LC Staff
Uncertain Times
In June 2017 at the #SEL Conference in Nashville, TN, Tim Shriver stated in his keynote address, “We live in volatile, ambiguous, complex and uncertain times.” He unpacked this statement by ex...
Tamara Fyke
Discussions on Discussions: Wisdom from the Learning Counsel’s Digital Transition Discussions
One of the benefits of hosting the Learning Counsel’s Regional Digital Transition Discussions is we get to sit face-to-face with some of the most respected thought leaders in American educat...
The LC Staff
Cognitive Approach to Addressing the Impact of Covid-19 on Students
Schools are exploring new ways to address the impact that Covid-19 has had and continues to have on students. As leadership teams around the country consider the most effective options to help c...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Community Schools: Connecting the Dots of a Connected Village
Editor’s Note: This is part two of a five-part series ( click here to first read part one ) According to the Community Schools Playbook, a project of the Partnership for the Future...
James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen
5 Highly-Rated Self-Care Books for Educators
According to a 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey , more than 75 percent of teachers reported frequent job-related stress. Educators have always experienced stress in their profession, but t...
Chelsea Buchanan
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
