Featured Articles
10th Annual Digital Transition Survey Awards
Benton, AR, Feb. 2nd, 2024 – Learning Counsel Research recognized Cobb County School District, Georgia with its Sustainable Tech Practices Award during the 10th Annual Learning Leadership natio...
Doug Cauthen
Higher Learning is Preparing for the World of AI
Five hundred years ago, Nicolaus Copernicus posited a heliocentric model that stated the Earth evolved around the sun. He published his handwritten manuscript in 1543, setting off what some ...
Kiran Kodithala and Lee Lambert
Biggest Takeaways – Remembering FETC For You
Hi ya’ll! Legitimately now living in Arkansas, I have local permission to use ya’ll whenever I want. Being in the south first for the FETC event and then TCEA this Spring, I thought I’d catch L...
LeiLani Cauthen
STEM for All: Defining "All" in the Context of Inclusive Education
What do we mean when we say that we want all students participating in STEM education? When we speak about "STEM for All," it's crucial to clarify the breadth and depth of &quo...
Jason McKenna
If You’ve Read One IEP, Have You Read Them All?
“If you’ve read one IEP, you’ve read them all.” It may not be literally true, but there is a strong feeling among many parents and teachers that the “individualized” part of an Individualized...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Bringing Back the Joy of Teaching: Unique Voices to Help You Thrive
When schools closed throughout the country for the past few years, teachers had to learn how to teach from afar and figure out different ways to support the needs of all their students and pa...
Robyn D. Shulman
Speak Life to Yourself This New Year
New Year…new you. New Year…new goals. We are inundated with messages about the necessity of goal setting. But I’m not feeling it…at all. The forced nature of this cultural observance holds no...
Tamara Fyke
Curing Learning Indigestion – Three Solutions to Overly Full Plates
“Our district is currently doing a lot of work to implement STEM ( or AI, new technology, etc.), and our teachers feel like they are constantly having things added to their plates while noth...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Introducing a Spatial-Temporal AI for changed Learning Patterns
A Hybrid Logistics Schooling Ingredient
LeiLani Cauthen
Stopping the 360-Degree Circle: Three Ways to Rethink Education Reform
At one time or another, we’ve all incorrectly used common phrases in the English language. It doesn’t matter if we’re educators with years of teaching under our belts, we each have our own “f...
Jeff Dase
Augmented Reality: The Power of Experiential Learning
The creation of powerful classroom experiences is something that every educator strives for. When learning is memorable, students make connections that help them easily acquire and retain inf...
Phil Birchinall
Audiobooks Show Promise in Aiding Literacy Challenges
Literacy rates in America have dropped in recent years. According to the Center for Education Statistics , 37% and 30% of fourth and eighth graders, respectively, do not meet the standard li...
Ruby Doherty
Navigating the New Terrain of Education: The Power of Guided Discovery Learning
In the evolving landscape of education, where the debate between knowledge-based and skill-based learning continues, Guided Discovery Learning (GDL) emerges as a transformative approach. Th...
Jason McKenna
Unlocking Genuine Motivation for Lifelong Learning and Success
Most educators, at least implicitly, believe motivation is something you either have or don’t. So, for the students who don’t, they’ve designed an emotional torture chamber that makes learnin...
Garrett Smiley
Taking and Giving Feedback with a Growth Mindset
One of the questions on the growth mindset quiz that we use to help our clients (and ourselves) assess our growth mindset is this: “I appreciate when instructors and coaches give me feedba...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
School Choice Legislation Could put $127 Billion in Play by 2025 Covering 52% of America’s Students
School Choice is the number one shift that will subtract students and revenue from traditional public schools. Nineteen States have adopted Choice legislation and most of those have very little...
Doug Cauthen
Expanding Family Involvement
No matter what the barriers you face, the first step to engaging families in your school is learning to empathize with them.
Laura Nicole Hill
What is STEM: An Exploration Beyond the Acronym
In the heart of Moscow, in 1929, a man named Solomon Shereshevsky walked into the Academy of Communist Education, unknowingly about to reveal a paradox that lies at the core of what we unders...
Jason McKenna
Using Data in the Era of the Great Rationalization and Consolidation
During the COVID-19 pandemic, EdTech tools and resources flooded into classrooms nationwide. As the unprecedented, pandemic-driven levels of school funding recede and budgets tighten, school ...
Lisa Katz
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Ivy Nelson's Insights on Humanizing Technology in Belton School District
At the Learning Leadership Symposium, Ivy Nelson, CETL, Instructional Technology Manager at Belton School District #124, took the stage to share the district's journey of humanizing tec...
Doug Cauthen
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.
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
Hybrid Logistics Security
