Featured Articles
The Upside of All This
You can see an upside of what is happening in America, in Education, in the World, if you know some of How Things Work. Specifically, you might ask, what things? Well, things that indicate a di...
LeiLani Cauthen
Achieving Equity: Understanding Each Child’s Cognitive Strengths and Weaknesses
Editor’s Note: This is part two in a five-part series In our first article in this Achieving Equity series, we suggested that the greatest obstacle to equity that students face in ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Help Your Students to be Entrepreneurs
When people think of student entrepreneurs, the first that come to mind are the stories of moguls like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who dropped out of university to create some of the most pr...
Nancy Conrad
Math Discourse and Other Math Teacher Best Practices That Support English Learners
A fifth-grade teacher tells her class that a person mowed their entire lawn. She gives them the length and width of the hypothetical backyard and asks them what the area of the space is. More th...
Claudia Salinas
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
