Featured Articles
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
How the COVID crisis caused K-12 to rethink testing
The pandemic reignited the debate over shifting away from high stakes testing to a more balanced assessment approach that’s part of the regular instructional cycle. Many parents and education le...
Trenton Goble
Login Syncing: Better Together with Digital Identity Management
As K-12 continues its journey down the path of digital transformation, one top priority of many medium to large districts is enhancing the learning experience, while improving cybersecurity, acr...
Gavin McKelvey
Forward to Normalcy
It was a little more than 100 years ago when candidate Warren G. Harding entered the 1920 presidential campaign with his slogan, “Return to Normalcy.” It evoked visions of a simpler time, before...
Charles Sosnik
Phoenix, AZ 2022, The Briefing: National Digital Transition Survey Results
At 8:30 sharp, as the enthusiastic crowd was gathering their coffee and heading for their seats, the Phoenix Digital Transition Discussion rolled into high gear. LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Pub...
The LC Staff
Gamification in Education: Fostering a Growth Mindset
When the term “gamification” comes up in the context of education, it is usually introduced as a way to improve student engagement and motivation. Given the dismal state of student engagement in...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Student Assessment and Evaluation: Measuring Growth Versus Measuring Achievement
Expected growth and assessment are part of all successful teaching plans. The general expectation is that for every year in school, students will accumulate a year’s worth of new knowledge, but ...
Janis Effner
10 Ways Educators Can Make Classrooms More Innovative
Having taught in various grades, and spending years as an academic advisor for new teachers, I've had the chance to spend time in various classroom environments. I've seen many different ways ed...
Robyn Shulman
Salt Lake City, UT 2022, The Briefing: National Digital Transition Survey Results
Learning Counsel CEO and Publisher LeiLani Cauthen opened the Salt Lake City Digital Transition Discussion with a detailed briefing of the latest National Digital Transition Survey. In front...
The LC Staff
Login Syncing: Better Together with Digital Identity Management
As K-12 continues its journey down the path of digital transformation, one top priority of many medium to large districts is enhancing the learning experience, while improving cybersecurity, acr...
Gavin McKelvey
The Case for Community Schools: Why Now?
In the time of COVID and protracted learning loss, community schools may be the best way to transform education to meet the needs of the mid-21st century and beyond.
James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen
The Circle of Stress
Although we are entering into Year three of pandemic life, there have been some hidden blessings. One is the rising awareness of mental health. From social media to the morning news, everyone is...
Tamara Fyke
Where Have All the Teachers Gone, And How Do We Get Them Back?
Like many of you reading this, I receive magazines, newspapers, and blogs about the educational disruption. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I live, there has been a dramatic increase in the nu...
Frank Schargel
Social and Emotional Learning: 3 Ways to Help Students Today
As professors who teach future principals and superintendents, we have our “students” share their weekly triumphs and tribulations for the first 15 minutes of each class. This year in particular...
Dr. Kelly H. Summers and Dr. Stephen Tonks
Learners: Happier, Healthier, Here’s How
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to better understand and address mental health in more effective ways. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, “The COVID-19 pandem...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Learning Counsel Regional In-Person Events Are Back!
After an almost two-year Hiatus, Learning Counsel Regional Digital Transition Events are back and on-location. And even though attendance was high for our virtual events, attendees still lon...
The LC Staff
Hands-on Math with Howie: Teaching with Toys
If you caught my previous post, you know this is your place to grab free original math projects you can use with your elementary students. All these projects rank extremely high on our Fun Me...
Howie Templer
The Importance of Out of School Time
According to ExpandED a nonprofit dedicated to closing the learning gap by increasing access to enriched education experiences, middle-class kids, by sixth grade, will have likely spent around...
Joshua Sneiderman
Keeping the Gifted Alive
Every time I read about yet another school system eliminating support for “gifted” students, I have the same sad thought: “Bad for kids, good for business.” While this trend of eliminating gi...
Richard Rusczyk
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
