Featured Articles

Innovation

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

People

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

Ideas

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

Thoughts

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

People

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

Perspective

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

People

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

Thoughts

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

Share to Care

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

People

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

Perspective

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

People

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

Perspective

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

Innovation

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

People

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

People

Empowering Students to Take Control of Their Learning

I talked with Edgenuity CEO Sari Factor soon after she was honored at the 9th Annual ASU+GSV Summit with the organization's inaugural Power of Women Award called POW! She received the recognitio...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Share to Care

A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Student Literacy Across All Subjects

Baffled by a gap between students’ discussions in class and their performance on exams, an instructional leader found the answer in reading comprehension.

Karen Fuller

People

Putting Plush Toys To Work For Learning

Talking with Kayle Concepts, LLC founder and CEO Laura Jiencke was a whirlwind conversation about not only discovering and developing an educational tool but being emotionally inspired to help s...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Spotlight

What is Data Literacy?

  Looking at a piece or set of digital data is meaningless if there is no understanding of how it is displayed. This Special Report not only discusses how digital displays are generally create...

The LC Staff

People

Helping Education Differentiate Student Learning Abilities

Meeting and discussing individualized instruction with Mindprint Learning founder and CEO Nancy Weinstein articulated the importance of discovering how students learn. She supported my interest ...

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...