Featured Articles
This User Group Takes a Deep Dive into the School User Experience
The Learning Counsel is a research institute and news media hub headquartered in Sacramento. Its membership includes approximately 215,000 superintendents and assistant superintendents, technolo...
Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Editor
What School Innovation Should Look Like
At the Learning Counsel’s National Gathering in Houston, TX, the major theme was “Designed for Digital. Keynote speaker LeiLani Cauthen, CEO of the Learning Counsel, presented a new way to ...
The LC Staff
Peachjar: School Districts Reduce Paper Waste, Save Money and Time While Keeping Parents More Informed
Combining educational technology with paperless communication is a digital program where districts, teachers, students, and parents can take advantage of a technology that not only helps the env...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Culture Clash
The Consumerization of Learning Chapter 8 Culture Clash There are many factors in our culture supporting a deeper digital transition. Some of these factors are unavoidable and have alr...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Insistence to the Resistance of Digital
People love things that are comfortable and easy. In a warm and stress-free home or classroom with orderly and tried and true methods we feel relaxed. Change is something like a windstorm blow...
Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief, Learning Counsel
The Grand Scheme
The following is Chapter 16, The Grand Scheme, from The Consumerization of Learning Thus far, some of what might be a grand scheme for a revitalized and restructured education sector has alr...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Ditch the Spelling Test!
Two second-grade teachers explain why they’ve replaced rote memorization with a phonics-based approach that maximizes reading and writing development.
Robyn Kendrick and Kyla Cook
Learning Counsel Recognizes Outstanding Digital Districts and Bestows Top Awards
At the Learning Counsel’s 2018 Annual Gathering and National Awards event in Houston, 10 innovative schools and districts were recognized for their transformational work in creating digita...
The LC Staff
SmartEdTech: Designs Centralized Environment for Digital Learning
Brian Sharp became the CEO of SmartEdTech over two years ago. With 19-years in educational technology, his career includes working at Apple, PowerSchool, Apex Learning, Kickboard and Rethink d...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Dr. Keith Osburn at The Learning Counsel’s 2018 National Gathering: The Semantics of Learning in a Technological World
Dr. Keith Osburn is the Assistant Superintendent, Georgia Virtual Learning at the Georgia Department of Education. He was a featured presenter at the Learning Counsel’s 2018 National Gathering i...
Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Editor
What are you afraid of?
This year’s keynote speaker at the Learning Counsel’s 2018 National Gathering in Houston was Kahle Charles, the Executive Director of Curriculum and Design at St. Vrain Valley Schools. Located a...
Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Editor
FreshGrade Helps Teachers, Parents and Students Converse About Learning
Lane Merrifield, the co-founder of Club Penguin, now owned by Disney, and current founder and CEO of FreshGrade , is getting ready to appear on Canada’s version of Shark Tank, Dragons’ Den. Cat...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Digital Equity- What are We Missing?
Access and equity are embedded into the ethos of many districts’ strategic plans. The learning ecosystems that are being created are worthy of praise and exploration. In that spirit of expl...
Lynn M. Meyers, M. Ed
Teaching Students With Easy-To-Use Electronic Building Blocks
Ayah Bdeir is the founder and CEO of littleBits . An engineer and interactive artist, she started the company in 2011. “littleBits has always been committed to empowering kids everywhere, regar...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Motivating Students with Quality Online Teaching
Founder and CEO of iTutor Harry Aurora started his company in 2013 after leaving the mortgage banking business. He turned to the educational field because three generations of his family were ed...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Maintaining Student Records for Secondary Education
Michele Pitman is the founder and CEO of intelliVOL. Her company oversees x2VOL, a managing service for student records. The product provides tracking and reporting tools that generate and verif...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Smartphones-in-School, Brain Mush, Teaching Deep Reading…and Apples & Bicycles!
According to a March 8, 2018 report by Pew Research , one in four Americans didn't read a single book in the last year, and bookstore chains are in decline . However, Americans are actual...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher, Learning Counsel
Digital Transition Q&A with Panel in New York, NY
Digital Transition Discussion Recap – New York, NY October 18, 2018 The Learning Counsel event in New York started with a new Learning Counsel market briefing covering the use of student...
Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief
Helping Teachers Evaluate Student Progress
Christine Willig, a 25-year K-12 industry veteran, became CEO of Illuminate Education following a five-way merger in July 2018. The merger combined assessment and data platforms (Illuminate Ed...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
With This Project, the Learning is Baked in
An intervention teacher shares how imagining their own bakeries inspired her students to collaborate, create, and consider future careers.
Deanna Freeman
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
