Featured Articles
Lessons Learned: LCFF 10 Years Later – How Data Can Support District Goals
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which was set in place in 2013 to direct more funds to districts with the most high-need students...
Jonathan Strout and Jodi Peters
A Schooling Metamorphosis that’s not What You Think
Do you know about the Hybrid Logistics Project? Most educators think of “hybrid” learning in a couple of ways. They either think it’s live video conferencing with the same class structure a...
Learning Counsel
Digital Wellness: Nurturing Health in the Online Learning Era
As the landscape of education undergoes a digital transformation, educators find themselves navigating the challenges of online teaching with unprecedented intensity. In this new era of virtual...
Ruby Doherty
Celebrate Good Times: Come On!
I see a lot of nervous Nellies out there. And guarded Garrys. And cautious Carls. 2022 brought us the biggest opportunity for learners since, well, ever. When generative AI was heralded a y...
Charles Sosnik
Bullying Explained, and How to Navigate It
Going to school should be an exciting venture for a child. After all, it’s their first approach to having social interaction with other children of their own age. It’s a chance to be original...
Dr. Suzanne Barchers
A Pinnacle in Colorado: Supportive School Board and Genuine Leaders in St. Vrain Valley Schools
Our present time of teacher shortage, absenteeism, learning loss and more are extremely tough on leaders in schools and districts. Getting a strategy and tactics right while continuing to roll ...
Doug Cauthen
Is Being Bilingual A Superpower?
Do you speak more than one language? Are you a multilingual speaker? This is part three of our interview series, “Thinking in Two Languages.” I had the chance to sit down and talk with Mari...
Robyn D. Shulman
Increase Learning through Force Multiplication: (Intelligence)2 = (Learning) x (FM)
Now that we are fans of the Science of Learning , we thought we would take a look and see if there was some type of magic bullet, something that could increase the overall effect of the Science ...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Weeding the Garden for Technology Choking Our Schools
The EdTech ecosystem – the educators, administrators, entrepreneurs and investors – spends a significant amount of time talking about specific technology innovations, solutions, platforms, an...
Al Kingsley
How Parents Can Play a Huge Role Increasing Literacy (and What to Share with Them)
With National Literacy Month upon us, I find myself reflecting on the unique role parents can play to inspire a lifelong love for reading in their children. As a career educator with 14 years...
Brendan Kells
You’re Measuring Student Talk Time Wrong. How to Really Analyze and Improve Classroom Engagement
Measuring classroom engagement doesn’t seem complex – anyone can use tally marks to count, and then try to increase the minutes of student talk time or number of hands raised. But having stu...
Adam Geller
Journey Beyond the Unseen: Supporting Students Amidst Homelessness
American education is facing a significant but little talked about issue -- the growing number of students dealing with the challenges of homelessness. These challenges are shaping the future...
Desiree Viramontes
President Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order to ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI). The Executive Order estab...
Doug Cauthen
Success for All Students: Why Accessibility and Inclusivity Should be the Cornerstones of Every Edtech Company’s Culture
Building inclusive online learning environments is an arduous undertaking for any EdTech company. The same solution needs to facilitate individualized instruction to serve learners in both in...
Te Thebeau
Baltimore, MD - Guest Educator Panel
The Learning Counsel held their regional Learning Leadership Symposium in Baltimore, MD at the Baltimore City Public Schools Professional Development Center. This event was designed to promote in...
Doug Cauthen
Implementing Your School District’s Strategic Plan: Four Keys to Success
A well-developed and thoughtfully executed strategic plan can motivate and unite an entire school community, ensuring that students, educators and board members are all working toward common ...
Erin Kane, Dwight Jones and Mike Poore
These Top 5 Factors Make for A Unique & Engaging Science Curriculum
There are two main reasons students tend to be most engaged and motivated to learn from their classroom teachers: When teachers are passionate and excited about the content they're teach...
Robyn D. Shulman, M.Ed.
5 Concerns AI Developers Need to Prevent from Materializing
From machine learning algorithms to ChatGPT, artificial intelligence has been invaluable for companies looking to streamline operations and amplify work output, sales, and overall business su...
Jason Toy
What’s really the future of education? School A.I. Calendaring
The future is probably not the manufacturing-line whole-group tradition or the fully online model. It’s somewhere in between in a complex matrix that uses both online digital learni...
Doug Cauthen
Growing Up in Our “Best of Times, Worst of Times” Kind of World
In June 2017 at the #SEL Conference in Nashville, TN, Tim Shriver stated in his keynote address, “We live in volatile, ambiguous, complex and uncertain times.” He unpacked this statement ...
Tamara Fyke
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
