Featured Articles
Learning in the Year 2040: Looking Forward, Acting Now!
What will the future of education look like, and how do we get there? What and how should future generations learn? How should training and education help learners prepare for a workforce that p...
Ryan L Schaaf
Human Nature & Schools After COVID-19
There is a certain sector of tech companies and big investment houses touting that things for schools are “not coming back to normal.” They are right in one respect, but wrong in a much larger r...
LeiLani Cauthen
It’s Time to Release Control in Education
For years we have debated the role of technology in education. Given the pandemic, we are inarguably here, embracing a new reality of K-12 education. Districts have been scrambling to provide de...
Tamara Fyke
Educators on the Front Lines Share What’s Working
Beginning on April 2 nd , the EduJedi Leadership Society members have been gathering in virtual meetings as panelists for discussions about the national emergency and how they are all facing...
The LC Staff
When Schools Reopen and Children Return, will Schools be Prepared?
The Corona virus has disrupted the lives of children and adults alike around the world. It has had a tremendous impact on the lives of children who may not understand what is happening. Children...
Frank Schargel
Why You Should Care about the Cares Act
$30.75 Billion. That sounds like a lot of money. Included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act that Congress passed, approximately $30,750,000,000.000 was appropriated for e...
Charles Sosnik
What’s Going to Happen with K12 Education?
(April 7, 2020) Schools, Districts and companies selling to them have questions, and forebodings. There are two lines of thought: In the Fall, things will get back to normal. Then in about ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Advice for the Newly Remote
Recently, the world changed. It’s a new reality for everyone, especially those of you who are working from home for the first time . The most important thing you can do is to establish an off...
Charles Sosnik
Learning Doesn’t Have to Be Held Back by VGA
The Latest Wireless Presentation Technology Allows VGA-Equipped Classrooms to Take Full Advantage of HDMI and Create State-of-the-Art Learning Opportunities
Bob Wudeck
Throwing the CEO a Lifeline
Earlier today I saw an email asking CEOs what they are doing to throw their employees a lifeline. As a CEO, this topic warms my heart, but if I’m honest it’s only halfway heartwarming for me. I ...
Edgar Blunt
Making Adjustments to the Normal Routine
Like all of us, over the past few weeks I have been monitoring the CoVid-19 pandemic and making adjustments to my daily routine for both work and home. What I’ve noticed in these first few days ...
Tamara Fyke
Going Virtual Overnight: 4 Questions for Administrators to Ask
Schools and districts are calling the Learning Counsel asking for advice on what to do given they must shut down. We’ve developed this questionnaire so you can quickly analyze the direction to g...
LeiLani Cauthen
New Survey Findings: Student Perceptions on Skilled Trades Education
The skilled trades industry offers lucrative and meaningful careers, however there is a growing skilled trades labor shortage in the U.S. that is severely impacting the economy and a number of h...
Mary Kelly
The Learning Counsel Announces Thom Markham to Keynote Their 2020 National Gathering
Global entrepreneur considered one of the founding fathers of Project Based Learning
The LC Staff
Resources Now That All Schools Are Temporarily Homeschools
This is the time that America pulls together. Most schools under the current threat of coronavirus spread are opting to close and attempt remote learning. The Learning Counsel is at yo...
The LC Staff
Applying a Trauma-Sensitive Approach to a District-Wide Model
With burgeoning awareness of the profound and life-long impacts of childhood trauma, districts across the country are becoming more proactive about caring for students who have suffered trauma a...
Lisa Riggs
Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools
Schools cannot prepare, highly successful graduates if there are not sufficient highly effective educators in school classrooms and in school front offices.
Frank Schargel
Driving Test Score Increase with Comedy
Educator Profile: Kalyan Ray-Mazumder is Acting the Part of a Lifetime
The LC Staff
How to implement STEAM curriculum that makes an impact
More than 75 percent of all jobs will require some expertise in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering Arts Math) within the next decade. But there’s a problem. Only 10 percent of US teacher...
Jamie Turner
What are the Most Popular Classroom Technologies in 2020?
The way of teaching and learning is changing every day. In today’s classrooms, keeping children focused on the content they are studying is a big challenge. Innovative and creative technologies ...
Monica Gill
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
