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Panel in Dallas, TX discusses their students, technology and academics

Digital Transition Discussion Recap - Dallas, TX, Sept. 27 2018   The day started with a new Learning Counsel market briefing, and throughout the day there were workshops on data analytics, ...

Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief

People

Industry Leaders Present Application to Student’s Education

Sabari Raja is co-founder and CEO of Nepris Inc , a unique cloud-based platform connecting industry and education to inspire students through real-world connections and career exposure. With ...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Perspective

System Leadership Versus the Classroom

Systems thinking is a management discipline that first observes discrete functions and interactions between components. In education that would be the interactions amongst teachers, learners, ad...

LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher

Event News

Panel In Meriden, CT talks about what excites them about the future of education that technology is enabling

The Learning Counsel held its regional event in Meriden, CT on Sept. 25, 2018. It was a full day packed with a Market Briefing, dicussions on Digital Transition with a focus on Data and Analytic...

Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief

Ideas

Primer on Education Analytics

  Teachers and school administrators are curious about the capabilities of technology in relation to learning. What is software supposed to be doing for the process of education? In the piece-m...

LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher

People

Help Children to Develop Skills Through Inspiration

Creatubbles Co-founder and CEO Paul Greenberg received both his B.S. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Technology and Policy from MIT. Before Creatubbles he served as CEO for...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Event News

Panel in Portland Discusses Digital Transformation and the Culture of Constant Change

The Learning Counsel held its regional event in Portalnd, OR on Sept. 20, 2018. It was a full day packed with a Market Briefing, dicussions on Digital Transition with a focus on Data and Analyti...

Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief

Share to Care

Technology-Relative to our Understanding

Technology in the classroom is a relative thing – relative to our understanding as educators of the place technology has in the learning process. We have always had technology in education. 20...

Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Writer

People

Founder and CEO of BASE Education Robin Glen: Helping Students Communicate with Teachers

Founder and CEO of BASE Education Robin Glen keeps herself busy running her company and prioritizing her actions to meet her company’s goals. Such goals as helping students by “broadening the br...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Event News

Silver Falls School District’s Tech Director, Dr. Drew Hinds Speaks at Portland Learning Counsel Event, Sept. 20, 2018

  Silver Falls School District’s Tech Director, Dr. Drew Hinds Speaks at Portland Learning Counsel Event, Sept. 20, 2018   Speaking at the Portland Digital Transition Discussion even...

The LC Staff

Spotlight

Transforming education from the ground up with the first Microsoft Flagship Schools

  Renton Prep selected as one of only 2 Flagship Schools in the US. Only 17 selected in the entire world. https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/09/transforming-education-microsoft-flagsh...

The LC Staff

Perspective

Consumerism's Current Restraints

The full-scale leap to consumerized learning is at present constrained by forces as thin as gossamer. There isn’t much holding it back as we can see by societal factors. First of all, consider...

LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning

People

Cynthia Kaye, Founder and CEO Alive Studios: Reading and Math Lessons Come Alive in the Classroom

  Founder and CEO of Alive Studios , Cynthia Kaye, is an innovator, developer, and publisher of educational software for Pre-K to 3rd-grade students. She earned a BS in Elementary Education f...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

People

2gnoMe (To Know Me): Learning Experience Platform for Teachers

As CEO and founder of 2gnoMe , Ilya Zeldin talked with me about his immigration from Russia when he was 15 years old. He said it was the perfect age to start a new life. “It’s early enough to g...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Perspective

I Can’t Shut Up About Ground Zero for the Future – the Gathering, Houston, Nov. 28-30th

I can’t shut-up about this.  I know a lot of educators who live mired in their daily struggles.  Many do not see what is happening to the greater system of public education with any degree of re...

LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher

Professional Development

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

Professional Development

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

People

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

People

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

People

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


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
Discussing the issues of student absenteeism, staffing and privacy might seem like biting off more than one leader can chew, but they are related from an important perspective: managing transacti...
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
K12 human resources are crucial to utilizing the cloud successfully. Roles and responsibilities have all changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, and a new trend to move to core co...
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missin...
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
Most administrators know there are still gaps remaining in their school or district’s digital transition. Recent studies including the 2021 Digital Transition Surveys for Administrators and Teache...
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and f...
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Seeing the Levels of Chaos Helps Anchor Bringing Order Schools and districts that recently lost 4 percent of students to alternatives continued to lose students in 2021 at an accelerated pace (no...