Featured Articles
Just What We Need: Infusing SEL into CTE
“When am I EVER going to use this?” is the classic question that drives teachers crazy. Because of the way education is currently structured, many teachers in regular education don’t have an ans...
Edgar Blunt & Dr. Brett Taylor
Teachers Can Transform Education if We Reinvent Professional Learning
When I propose that it’s possible for teachers to transform education, usually I get pushback like this: “Teachers aren’t known as change agents; they complain but remain compliant even while di...
Thom Markham
Leadership Requires Relationship Technology
TANSTAAFL The industrial revolutions—mid 18 th century, again in the early 19 th century— arrived on waves of new technology. The invention of the steam engine and the sewing machine trans...
Mac Bogert
Observable Barriers to Real Change in Education
The Learning Counsel conducts Digital Transition Discussion events regionally, in cities across America. At a recent event in our nation’s capital, an informal roundtable discussion was convened...
Charles Sosnik
Close the Achievement Gap: 5 Specific Strategies
A key facet of instructional leadership is addressing and closing the achievement gap. There are two reasons that principals should lead the charge to close the achievement gap. First, it is the...
Barbara R. Blackburn and Ron Williamson
Administrators: How to Sell SEL to Teachers
Although SEL is considered one of the hottest topics in education, there is still a need for educators to understand why it is important. In a world full of increased uncertainty and trauma, man...
Tamara Fyke
The Digital Transformation of Literacy Education
How teaching reading has (and hasn’t) changed over the past 30 years.
Tyson Smith
The Looming Teacher Shortage: What’s a Superintendent to Do?
In December of 2019 the US Department of Labor confirmed that the number of teachers that schools across the country are short is 300,000.A year ago when we here at the E Squared Group put toget...
Jacqueline Gordon
First EduJedi Training Orientation Video is Now Available to Everyone
The Learning Counsel’s EduJedi Leadership Society is an existing community of over 1,000 Schools and Districts that annually attend Digital Discussions meetings, as well as more than 215,000...
The LC Staff
Want More Tech-Savvy Kids: Stop Fighting Technology
I have a crazy idea. What if we stopped fighting technology? Instead of punishing our students for bringing their phones to class, what if we allowed their phones? I asked my college-aged son...
Tamara Fyke
Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button
The current public education system has stagnated. The information and technology explosion has exposed a behemoth that is not able to pivot and adapt. Without massive action, the United States ...
Matt Ridenour
For the Educator-Entrepreneur in the New Year
Some words of advice for those of you who are working a side hustle or starting a new business:
Charles Sosnik
Beyond the Science Experiment: Building Soft Skills with AR and VR
As augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) learning experiences become increasingly common in K-12 classrooms, the value this technology brings to STEM and Career and Technical Education...
Joe Parlier, Ed.D.
The Learning Counsel’s 2019 National Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey Yielded Surprising Results
Highest pressure now coming from students’ social and emotional needs
The LC Staff
A Remarkable Council of 215,000 Giving Counsel to the World of Education
When I first joined the Learning Counsel, I had no idea what an integral part our schools and districts played in the Learning Counsel’s efforts. Having come from a more traditional media compan...
Charles Sosnik
Educating for the Design Economy
Editor’s Note: This article was first published in 2014. It’s remarkable how it has increased in relevance now that the bulk of education is sailing into the choppy waters of redesign and digi...
LeiLani Cauthen
Insistence to the Resistance of Digital: Good News from Our Nation’s Capital
It’s not often that we get good news from Washington D.C. As the seat of our nation’s government, we are inundated with stories about in-fighting and partisan politics. Even the school system, D...
Charles Sosnik
Are FREE Apps Putting Your School and Students at Risk?
For the classroom teacher, the word FREE is a breath of fresh air, especially when it comes to stretching chronically inadequate budgets for learning resources. FREE means one less thing you hav...
Art Willer
Effective Intervention for Students with Dyslexia
Dyslexia affects an estimated 15-20 percent of the U.S. population. But it is often called “the hidden disability” because impacted students are often competent or even exceptional in areas othe...
Suzanne Carreker, Ph.D., CALT-QI
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
