Featured Articles
K-12 Guide to Building District Resilience: How to be High Performing through Foreseeable Disruptions
As we emerge from the pandemic, K-12 leaders are balancing the pull to return to normal with their recognized responsibility to learn and improve. They are asking how to mitigate future lear...
The LC Staff
Remember the Good Old Days
Remember the good old days, before COVID changed our daily routines and sent our children home to have school with their parents or grandparents? Remember when things made sense, and you knew ...
Charles Sosnik
Millions of Students Missing: Now the Tough Grind, or Not
Facts about the national map of which district is “back to normal” and which isn’t are hard to put together, but the entirety of “normal” itself is in question. It’s also way-to-obviously being ...
LeiLani Cauthen
What the Summer’s Hottest PD Topics Reveal About Educators
What are the hottest topics for professional development in K-12 education over this extraordinary summer? As school districts across the nation prepare to return to in-person teaching, a snapsh...
Dr. Lynn Kepp
Helping Students Get Back in the Swing of Things
Back-to-school time is usually a mix of nervousness and excitement. This year students may experience more anxiety than usual after 18 months of either distance or hybrid learning. In our desi...
Tamara Fyke
The Survey Says… Big Tech Purchases with More Tech to Come: Looking Back to Look Forward
The U.S. K-12 sector spent $35.8 Billion in 2020 on all things EdTech, including hardware, major software systems, digital curriculum resources and networks, a healthy increase of $7.5 Billion o...
Charles Sosnik
How Distance Learning Tools Help Provide a Successful Teaching and Learning Experience
Virtual classrooms offer many possibilities when creating effective distance learning programs, for secondary and higher education as well as corporate learning environments. Education technolog...
Allen Drennan
Solving the Teacher Shortage Can’t (by Itself) Solve the Learning Shortage
President Biden recently announced plans to fund efforts to address the shortage of teachers, a situation that has been building for many years and accelerated because of the pandemic. There is ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
What the Pandemic Taught Parents That Could Change Education for the Better
When teachers and students were forced to shift to remote learning during the pandemic, parents experienced plenty of angst. Could their children learn as well on a computer screen as they did...
Emily Greene
What’s Your Learning Model?
The purpose of a learning model shift is to allow schools and teachers to retain relevancy, perhaps even supremacy, over fully consumer models available today, which by their very nature will be...
LeiLani Cauthen
Using SEL to support college and career readiness
We often hear employers and college recruiters talk about soft skills – those skills that go beyond technical knowledge about a job or academic test scores – and the importance of those skills...
Christine Nicodemus
How Education Can Get the Most Out of Technology
For more than 60 years, Singapore's schools have incorporated technology into their students’ day-to-day learning processes, setting the goal for them to develop competitive vocational skills....
Hugo Aguirre
Classroom Collaboration: Privacy and Security
If the recent pandemic has taught educators anything, it's that privacy is paramount to the teacher, trainer and student user experience, especially when minors are involved. Not surprisingly, s...
Allen Drennan
The New 70/30 Rule: 70% Will Get Us $72 Trillion
In Part One of this series , we envisioned a world where vastly greater numbers of students could improve their cognitive skills so that they score at the 70 th percentile or higher. Why th...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
High Tech Tells a Story
Technology is inescapable. Whether teaching and learning at home or at school, we rely on hardware and software to help us. Notice the words “help us.” Computers and systems are tools for us to ...
Tamara Fyke
The Case for Hybrid Logistics to Solve Inequity, Part 2: Letting Humans Be Human
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. Part one can he found here . The crux of the issue is that teaching is defined by nearly all traditional public schools as a ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Overcoming Critical Issues with Better Master Scheduling
Educational leaders are facing unprecedented times. These critical issues are pushing officials to make difficult decisions about teaching and learning, while leaving them wondering what the...
The LC Staff
Learning Leadership versus Systemic Inequities
The nation’s schools are aggressively working to fight systemic inequities, but there is one many overlook. Learning is not truly personalized. It’s “tweaked” to individualize within narrow la...
Chris McMurray
ESSER Funds: Legislation and Leverage
On Thursday, March 11, 2021, the first anniversary of the pandemic declaration, H.R. 1319, the “American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021,” was signed and became Law 117-2. The ARPA, a $1.9 trilli...
The LC Staff
Making Lemonade in a Pandemic
Superintendent explains how her district has used the lessons and funding of distance learning to help build a brighter future for students and teachers.
Dr. Kandace Bethea
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
