Featured Articles
Do Something with the Family This Summer
This is it! The last weeks of school. You’re counting down the days until you hear the final bell ring sounding your freedom. Summer is almost here. After about a week of lounging on the couch,...
Tamara Fyke
Community Schools: Lessons Learned/Lessons Shared
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final installment of this series. For previous installments, see one , two , three and four Community Schools are...
James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen
Build a Strong, Fun, STEM Foundation
Achieving STEM success from an early age
Mark Hendrickson
Closing the Evaluation Gap
Schools today are challenged by a variety of issues—regional staffing shortages, increased volume of requests, seasonal spikes in student referrals—to name a few. No matter the issue, the result...
Claudia L'Amoreaux
What in the World is an Educator to Do?
These are unusual times, to say the least. The two biggest storylines in the school world are the teacher shortage and the student shortage. It seems like they can’t both be true. But they are...
Charles Sosnik
Summer Brain Drain
It’s that time of year to start looking forward to summer break. As much as parents and guardians might not be excited for the change in routine, teachers and students alike both need time to re...
Kristin D. Gigliotti, M.Ed
Take this Quiz before ISTE
Before you attend ISTE this year, or even if you are not going, take the 10-Point Hybrid Logistics Awareness Quiz. The Quiz will provide you your individual score. Find out how the rest of ...
Charles Sosnik
Experience Hybrid Logistics at ISTE
For more than four decades, the ISTE conference has been recognized as one of the world’s largest education events. It’s where educators and education leaders gather to engage in hands-on lear...
Doug Cauthen
Take Another Look at Financial Literacy for Our Youth
Financial Literacy is a subject that is currently little taught, but much needed in our schools. With the advent of digital transactions and the inability of school age children to see the relat...
Christy S. Martin, Ed. D
8 Ways We Can Improve Schools Today for A Better Future Tomorrow
Can we change the trajectory of school? Right now, most school districts are trying to develop an effective plan for the ongoing return of students and the continuing lack of teachers. Prepari...
Robyn Shulman
Hybrid Learning and Lesson Design: 5 Tips for Efficiency
One day students are there. The next, they’re not. This is the year of constant school emails, texts, and calls detailing absences, COVID and quarantine rates, and school building closures. Fo...
Zach Vander Veen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
