Featured Articles
Simple steps for getting and keeping your students’ interest
As I work with schools and staff, the most often asked question is: How do I engage my students? The frequent follow up to the question is an explanation that their students aren’t interested ...
Contributing Writer, Dr. Hope Dugan, Zia Learning
The Gift of Student Agency
Personalized Learning (PL), although a phrase in frequent use, still does not have a universally understood definition. I prefer to define it as an environment where strong relationships betw...
Contributing Writer, Dr. Hope Dugan, Zia Learning
ClassTag: Engage Parents, Boost Student Success, and Reward Teachers
Co-founder and CEO ClassTag , Vlada Lotkina struggled in 2015 to stay current on her daughter’s activities at preschool. She realized that while technology revolutionized most aspects of Americ...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Helping Teachers Leverage Technology
CEO Penda Learning, Corey Peloquin strives to make life easier for teachers. Ever since he was a middle school science teacher, he looked for solutions to easily and quickly evaluate students w...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Real-time Data Analysis Eases Decision Making
CEO GuideK12 Chuck Amos is passionate about helping the educational community. “I love education. If we do our job well we make things a little better, more efficient and more effective for the ...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
A New Career and Technical Education Act for a New Era
Last week, President Trump signed legislation that renewed and updated the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, the primary funding source from the federal government for CTE offe...
Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Writer
Delivering Digital STEM Curriculum to Improve the Quality of Teaching and Student Performance
CEO and President of Accelerate Learning Vernon Johnson served in public education for over 25 years. During those years, he served as a superintendent in several districts and led several educa...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Step One of Education Designed for Learning: Reorientation
Everyone in education is familiar with “Orientation Night” for parents and students. There may even be new teacher orientation professional development. What is orientation, really, and what s...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
Clouds, Testing, and a Student’s Mind
The advent of devices in the hands of so many students is causing new insights into what it means to learn. Learning is not just a byproduct of teachers and instructional planners busily tryi...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
Streamlining Instructional Education
Co-founder and CEO Andrew Schlessinger and I talked about the hot weather, commuting to work, and our career paths before we got down to discussing his company, SAFARI Montage . In 1985 he fo...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Conquering Time
In the future, super-actualized software systems will provide teachers with all the information they need to supervise their students individually with crafted learning programs. As mentione...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Bringing Life to Education; Accessible Help for Any Teacher
President and CEO of The Source for Learning , Lynn Rejniak talked with me about her company which provides instructional content to teachers everywhere, free of charge or at a low cost. We bri...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
The Face of Consumerized Learning
What does the face of consumerized learning look like? What’s it like to experience it? The fact is, it’s a lot like watching a great movie or documentary that has ...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Using Technology to Foster Collaboration in the Classroom
A teacher shares the tools she uses to get her students not just looking at screens but looking at each other and working together.
Brenda Rogers
Do Right for Education with Lifelong Partnerships
I talked with Edmentum President and CEO Jamie Candee shortly after she was honored by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal as one of the top women in business. The Journal wrote ; “In t...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Future You in Primary & Middle
Here is an excerpt from Chapter 32 of The Consumerization of Learning. “Don’t forget you have to meet with your Story Guide later today,” Mom says. "You know you are going to meet with...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Viable Strategy Helps Students Learn by Doing
Meeting with Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe defined how creating the company's viable strategy is the utmost function in determining the success of an educational company. It is a strategy tha...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Disruption: The Sum of the Effect
Here is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of The Consumerization of Learning . "What’s the sum of all this semi-invisible disruptive force known generally as the technology transition running ov...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Teacher Metamorphosis
Here is an excerpt form Chapter 26 of The Consumerization of Learning . "School administrators who do not want a wholesale insurrection as they move schools towards consumerized learning need...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Scanning Fingerprints Simplifies Each School Day
Sitting down and discussing biometric identification management technology with identiMetrics Biometric ID Management co-founder and CFO Anne Marie Dunphy formulated the importance of simplifyin...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
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
