Featured Articles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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