Featured Articles
2025 Summer Reading List – Round 1
Learning Counsel is blessed to have many educator and technology industry friends who write interesting books. Here are our first recommendations for your Summer reading this year! Our own r...
LeiLani Cauthen
The Emergence of the Sentient Schooling Matrix by 2032
Most educators and indeed, consumers, are aware so far only of Generative AI. That’s because it is consumer-facing and we can directly interact with it. Generative AI is only the beginning, sha...
LeiLani Cauthen
Bringing Back the Phone Call: Making It Work for Schools Today
A 40 percent jump in parent responses to conference scheduling. That’s what our district saw after introducing a new cloud-based phone system built right into our school-home communications p...
Gary Lambert
Why Personalization and Student Agency Are the Future of Education
During my four decades of education research, I've witnessed educators face disruptive forces that have magnified existing challenges: today we have AI, we've had COVID, we've ...
Dr. Yang Zhao
What is Time AI?
Unlike typical scheduling tools, Time AI takes decision-making usually reserved for humans and automates it through dynamic, adaptive algorithms. The platform is more than just an intelligent...
LC Staff
Career-Ready Students: 3 Priorities for Successful CTE Programs
Schools and districts across the country are seeing a growing demand for career and technical education (CTE). CTE is such an important and beneficial way for students to become career ready....
Dusty Moore
We asked ChatGPT This and Found a New Administrative Imperative: Cognition, Connection & Care through Course-Building
We started by wondering what it means now that AI is on the scene as a source of information and knowledge for schooling. We posed a conjecture leading up to how it would change the teaching ...
LC Staff
The Power of Sports to Engage Students in STEM Learning
Educators constantly search for ways to engage students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). These subjects are foundational for preparing students for the future work...
Haley MacLean
Teaching Creativity, Collaboration, and even Self-Confidence with Robots
Our students are growing into a world where they will find themselves sharing their space, work, and lives with more and more robots. More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s u...
Hunter McConnell
Schools Need to Quit these Assumptions
Something much bigger is happening in America than leaders in education are even considering. It’s a vast shift awaiting a new structure to the form of schooling which is inhibited by old ass...
LeiLani Cauthen
Common Phrases, Not Fancy Words, Make You Sound More Fluent in a Foreign Language
Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research suggests that there is a close relationship between formulaic expression ...
Kotaro Takizawa and Shungo Suzuki
Using Technology to Break Through Literacy Roadblocks
When I joined Jacksonville Lighthouse Charter School two years ago it was an F-rated school. Only about 10 percent of students were reading at grade level (across all grade levels), so need...
John Osborn
What's New in Child Care Legislation and Policy
Early care and education (ECE) is finally receiving the attention it has long deserved as a major public discourse topic. It is now widely recognized as a bipartisan issue, with both sides agre...
Jamee Herbert
The Future of Education in the Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence is no longer an emerging tool. It’s a transformative force reshaping how, why, and where we learn. As we move deeper into the Age of Intelligence, education is evolvin...
Dr. Ja-Naé Duane and Steve Fisher
Why Most Students Now Need Tier 2 Support—and Why Comprehensive Integrated Cognitive Training Is the Core
In schools across the country, the number of students struggling to meet grade-level expectations has increased following the pandemic and has not responded as hoped. While Tier 2 interventio...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
The Special Ed Crisis
Before today's tumult, special education in the U.S. was already in crisis. It's just that now, the general public is paying attention to special ed. Indeed, the public should be en...
Coral PS Hoh, PhD
How Career Readiness and Personalized Learning Are Shaping the Future of Education
Is your school ready to prep students for careers that don’t even exist yet? That’s not a futuristic "maybe later" question—it’s happening right now . From robotics to renewable en...
Paul Copioli
Three Ways to Leverage Insight into Students’ Web Use for Better Outcomes
Being proactive about safety and security means anticipating possible threats and addressing them before they become problems later on. Public health and safety officials would agree that a...
Steve Stolfi
Stop the Vanishing Act: Three Ways Schools Can Keep Track of Their Tech
In an era where accessible technology is essential for academic success, schools invest heavily to ensure all students have access to critical digital tools like laptops, iPads, and Chromeboo...
Shane Foster
Higher Ed and the AI Revolution: Prepping Undergrads
A college junior asked me, "Do you think AI will affect much of our lives?" College students are ill-prepared, even when change has accelerated dramatically. The pace of change ha...
Coral PS Hoh
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
