Featured Articles
Miguel Cardona Brings Hope to Position of Secretary of Education
The last twelve months have been tumultuous for families, businesses, schools and teachers. With schools closed in most states for the past 12 months, educators came together district by distric...
Grant Hosford
Using School Data to Design an Effective Hybrid Learning Program
School administrators around the world are trying to ensure students get the instruction and support they need while keeping everyone safe from the coronavirus. In the initial phase of the pande...
Chad Reid
Compensatory Services Strategies in Three Steps
Parents, Extended School Year, and Legal Knowledge are Key
Jenny Barker
Unlocking the Ten Keys to Affective School Leadership: Part One
This is the latest article in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to work thro...
Jamie Bricker
Using Historical Moments as Teaching Moments
Every once in a while, history happens. Usually it is something tragic; occasionally it is something to celebrate. It is always noteworthy. All of these are teaching moments. Celebratory times u...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
Four Personalized Learning Essentials
The past year ushered a seismic shift in the adoption of technology in K–12 education. From Zoom™ to Google Classroom to TikTok ® , teachers and districts across the country invested in tools ...
Glenda Martinez
Don’t Read This unless You’re a Superintendent: Hybrid Learning is Not What you Think
Superintendents nationwide are dealing with unprecedented chaos in attempting to deliver learning. They are not, however, typically rethinking their organizational structure. This is because nea...
LeiLani Cauthen
What You Should Know about Executive Functions
As we learn about the role of cognitive skills in academic performance, we become increasingly aware of the importance of the subset of cognitive skills known as Executive Functions. Executive F...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
What a Year it has Been
It’s been a year. A year of closed schools and limited travel, a year of face masks and social distancing, a year of distance learning and friendship pods. It’s been a tough year. A year of love...
Tamara Fyke
Damn the Torpedoes
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” --Union Admiral David Faragut I guess you don’t have to be a history buff to recognize the quote. “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” It is on...
Charles Sosnik
Looking to June: Top 5 Priorities for Superintendents
This article is the first in a series, developed in partnership with Dr. Avossa, to help schools address pressing issues for their students now—and plan for ongoing uncertainty (and maybe even ...
Dr. Robert Avossa
Three Actions That Will Accelerate Learning in 2021
The past year has stretched and tested educators in previously unimaginable ways. While managing a slew of personal and professional challenges, we witnessed how educators improvised, innovated,...
Ken Tam
The Delicate Question of Teacher Digital Transition
“Let’s make sure we all get one thing very clear. Tech is replacing the old whole-group model , it’s not replacing true human direct instruction. It’s making direct individual instruction a ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Revisiting SAMR in Education: Form Leads Function in the New Reality
Does SAMR continue to meet the need of describing the depth and breadth of change needed in education today?
LeiLani Cauthen
We Need to Treat K-12 Public Schools as An Essential Service
“For the past 6 months, policymakers and the U.S. public have weighed economic against public health considerations in debating what limits to set on individuals and collective behaviors in att...
Franklin Schargel
Reopening Schools but Emptier, Physically Distanced, and still some Remote Students - The State of K12 Schools in America
We need to talk about the state of K12 schooling in America. It’s a different world now. The Learning Counsel’s major Digital Transition Survey showed our first data in October 2020 of the natio...
LeiLani Cauthen
Ten Keys to Affective School Leadership
This is the latest article in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to work thro...
Jamie Bricker
No More School Money Worries
First there was the CARES Act, which is still not entirely spent out. Many areas of the country who didn’t get their allocation spent up by the end of 2020 got extensions . The CARES Act was...
LeiLani Cauthen
The Role of Cognitive Skills in Academic Performance
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a five-part series. The negative impact of COVID-19-related disruptions on student learning has fallen disproportionately on students living...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Make Family Dinner a Priority
Family dinner and school success don’t seem to go together, at least not on the surface. But let me share a short story. At the school where I use to teach, the valedictorian one year was asked ...
Joshua M. Sneideman
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
