Featured Articles
Curriculum is the Key to Flexible, Future-Ready Schools
This past spring, schools across the U.S. faced similar challenges but experienced wildly different outcomes. When Covid-19 forced building closures in March, administrators quickly found out wh...
William Zhou
How to Make Remote Instruction Work
As schools across the country resume instruction this fall, there are few certainties and seemingly endless questions. As the assessment director for Imagine Schools , a system with more than 3...
Alex Fernandez
Opinion: It is Time for Real Change – and That Change is Long Overdue
Our school calendar, based on factors that are long gone, is one of the most antiquated things that still exists in schools. We are no longer hampered by the agriculture calendar that was necess...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
Reading is Still the Golden Elixir
Many experts are saying we will not be out of the woods with COVID-19 for many months. It is an instructional year that is of concern to teachers, parents, communities and even the youth. One th...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
Affective School Leadership Priorities of the Pandemic Principal
All educational stakeholders are understandably stressed. The pandemic continues to have a huge impact on all of our daily lives and there is seemingly no end in sight. The associated anxiety an...
Jamie Bricker
Remote Learning: Keeping Learners at the Center of All We Do
A friend of mine has two young school-age boys, kindergarten and second grade. The other week she posted a photo of her youngest slumped over the kitchen table with his head down, feeling disco...
Tamara Fyke
South Texas is figuring it out together
According to Dr. Kari Rhame Murphy, Chief Technology Officer at Deer Park ISD, “Now we're going to bring kids into the mix and how many kids are coming, and we don't have that final number. ...
The LC Staff
Achieving Equity: Knowing the Right Questions to Ask
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a five-part series As the 2020-21 school year begins with remote learning as the norm for most students in the U.S., educators across the nation are talk...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Asynchronous Learning: The Key to Equity
In this time of the Coronavirus pandemic and an all too sudden shift to virtual learning, equity of access has become perhaps the single largest obstacle to educating our children. Part of this ...
Kevin McFarland
Investing in Educators is Crucial for Remote Learning
The fall academic semester has arrived across the U.S., and many K-12 schools, colleges, and universities find themselves in a similar situation to what they experienced in the spring: teaching ...
Howie Berman
New EduJedi Dictionary Gives Meaning to the Language of EdTech
The EduJedi Dictionary 2020 Edition is now available at no charge to all educators who attend the Learning Counsel’s Virtual Fall Regional events . Why you need the EduJedi Dictionar...
The LC Staff
5 Ways to Develop Teacher Agency and Advance Student Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t only exposed the vast gap in educational equity for students, it has revealed gaps for teachers as well. Though district leaders are working diligently to get the te...
Katherine E. Bihr, Ed.D. & Susanne H. Thompson
A Glimpse of the Front Lines of the First Wave of a Journey to the Barest Hint of Normalcy
A recent plea on social media the other day caught my eye. A teacher was pouring her heart out. Exhausted and stressed, she admittedly was in tears after a trying week of never-ending days, tryi...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
Our Nation’s Education System Created the Greatest Generation. Can We Create the Smartest Generation as Well?
In modern history, during times of national crises our state and national governments deployed educational support and funding systems designed to eliminate racial and economic inequity within o...
Dr. Kenneth W. Eastwood
Expanding the Future of History
Recent politics has brought the teaching of United States History to the forefront. Politicians on one side advocate the teaching of patriotism and the greatness of those involved in shaping our...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
Learning How to Educate
The pandemic has given everyone in America an object lesson in education – but the emergency response experienced in the spring is far from the blended schooling model needed to thrive in the future…
Amy Valentine
Questions We Should Be Asking: Remote Instruction and Our Highest Poverty Districts
More than ever, where you live may determine what kind of educational opportunities you have. Recently, the Center on Reinventing Public Education researched how 477 school districts will be ope...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
Yah, It’s Conference Season
The conference season is in full swing at the Learning Counsel. In September alone, we have events in South Texas, Southern California, the Northeast, North Texas, the Mid-Atlantic States, Kentu...
Charles Sosnik
Building Flexible Classrooms that Conform to Learners (Not the Other Way Around)
Here’s how a new career-focused high school used flexible furniture and other modular elements to transform a 180,000sf building into a modern learning space.
Dr. Christina Counts
Let’s Take the Learning Outside: The Air is Fine
Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested that students should learn outside as much as possible. To some educators that are relying on technology, that scenario may seem impossible. Others say stu...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
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
