Featured Articles
4 Districts Review New A.I. Teacher Assistant
What if there were a new software application that uses your own teachers digitized into animated avatars to present lessons? Learners engage in interactive conversations with socially intel...
The LC Staff
Simple Steps to Eliminate Zoom Fatigue
Over the past week, I have heard myself and several others say, “I’m tired of Zoom. I’m ready to be with real people.” I have also led more professional trainings and student workshops online t...
Tamara Fyke
The Oracle at Sacramento
2800 hundred years ago in Greece, a priestess named Pythia was famous throughout the ancient world for divining the future, and it is said no major decisions were made without consulting her fir...
Charles Sosnik
Understanding the Choices We Make
"People are capable of flight. The problem is the landing." --Mark Yozart Acrophobia applies to people with "extreme, irrational and persistent fears of heights and situations associat...
Mac Bogert
2021: The Road Less Traveled
Now that the year 2020 is over, we should all breathe a sigh of relief. Most of us are hoping that a new year will bring a new, more positive chapter to our lives and those around us. Educators ...
Christy Martin, Ed.D.
Pandemic Positives Made Permanent
Editor’s note: This is the latest 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 ...
Jamie Bricker
Emotional Intelligence: The Smarter Path to High Achievement
Editor’s Note: This is part three of a three-part series on student wellbeing. What is social emotional health and how do we define the healthy child? What are some ways that schools ...
Julian Fagan & Ian Fagan
5 Recommendations for Administrators in 2021: The New Normal is Not Traditional Schooling, it’s Logistics
The Learning Counsel’s Digital Transition Survey 2020 posed many questions aimed at discovering the transition tactics of schools. What was found indicates that most schools consider they are fu...
LeiLani Cauthen
Absent Without Leave: America’s Traditional K-12 Learners are Leaving, Costing Schools Hundreds of Millions in Their Wake
Our traditional K-12 students are begging out of attendance at record numbers, often with no notification whatsoever. It’s a trend that began years ago but has accelerated at blinding speed sinc...
Charles Sosnik
Tech Spending Predictions for America’s Schools in 2021, Amid Enrollment Losses
EdTech spend is expected to increase by $2.4 billion in 2021, up from $35.8 billion to $38.2 billion. 2020 spend by America’s K12 schools was captured by the Learning Counsel’s Digital Transit...
LeiLani Cauthen
Education is about Relationships
This week I finished reading The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis again. His writings are lifetime favorites, and even though I know how the story goes I uncover something new with each read. At the ...
Tamara Fyke
EduJedi Leadership Society Grants Awards at Learning Counsel’s 2020 National EduJedi Gathering
(Sacramento, CA December 15, 2020) This year is clearly a landscape shift for educational technologies. It is important to remember how far we have come in only a few decades with technology...
The LC Staff
The 2020 Digital Transition Survey Results are in: Just How Large is the K12 Ed-Tech Market?
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...
LeiLani Cauthen
Equity, Neuroscience and Cognitive Capacity
Editor’s Note: This is part four of a five-part series. In the fourth article in our series, we turn to the contribution that neuroscience research can make to address equity in educat...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Opinion: What We Need are Community Schools
Students are suffering Our highest poverty districts are suffering. Schools are essentially closed in these districts, and students are struggling with online models, sketchy Internet access...
Christy Martin, Ed.D.
Harnessing the Power of Cadence, from the Classroom to the Boardroom
When I first show up to provide leadership coaching or learning sessions for a new client, I spend some time wandering around the facility. There’s a lot to be learned from listening to how peop...
Mac Bogert
Pandemic Principals Provide Perspective
This is the latest 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 through them...
Jamie Bricker
Student Wellbeing: Helping Students Help Themselves
The Coronavirus pandemic and ensuing challenges from school and society closures have heightened awareness about the growing dangers to the safety and wellbeing of our students. Our natural re...
Ian Fagan & Julian Fagan
Giving Thanks
Every year, I publish a column somewhere in the education press around the time of the Thanksgiving holiday with a “ What are You Thankful For” theme. During this time of COVID-19 and WFH a...
Charles Sosnik
By Definition: Real K12 Leadership Now
Really good leaders have uncanny abilities to do true estimates of what it takes to win. That is what defines a consistent winner and therefore great leader.
LeiLani 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.
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
