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Collaborating with Colleagues in Atlanta

A day of discussion between superintendents and executives about digital curriculum tactics

Cebron Walker, Editor-in-Chief

Perspective

STEM Is Just the Beginning

Specific subject knowledge is useless without the literacy, communication, and collaboration skills that students need to thrive in today’s workplace

Dr. Ruben Alejandro, Lydia Withrow, and Vicky Gorman

Ideas

From Web 2.0 to Social 3.0: Everything will be Collabrified

For Once K-12 is Leading the Way

Cathleen Norris & Elliot Soloway

Spotlight

CALSA Celebrates its 10th Annual Focus on Results Symposium

The three-day gathering of California’s Latino superintendents and administrators culminates with a win by NextLesson

Christopher Piehler

Thoughts

Hey, Where’s Our Stuff?

The Importance of Managing K-12 District Resources

Bruce Hamilton, guest columnist

Spotlight

Why the Best Leaders Are Good Listeners

How authentic communication can build trust between school districts and communities

Suhail Farooqui

Design

Learning by Design

Resources to help educators empower students with creative, collaborative and sustainable spaces

Cebron Walker, Editor-in-Chief

Innovation

To Build Or To Buy, That Is The Question

Should your district, with its own unique culture, buy pre-built digital curriculum or build their own with an authoring program?

Connie Bosley, guest columnist

Ideas

A Blended Approach to Teacher PD

With more and more demands for change, here’s a collaborative approach to professional development that is bringing teachers and administrators up to speed

Christopher Piehler

Thoughts

Curriculum Humpty Dumpty

The curriculum field has fractured into pieces just like the fabled Humpty-Dumpty-who-sat-on-a-wall

LeiLani Cauthen

Spotlight

Digital Curriculum Is a Game-Changer for College Prep

A Washington State school uses digital CTE and electives to help students prepare for secondary education and plan for a career

Julia Brolin

Perspective

The Fear and Mis-Understanding of Change

The third installment in our tour of traps that can bar the road to digital education success

LeiLani Cauthen

Perspective

Keys to Digital Education Success

The final installment on the traps that can block a digital transition strategy

LeiLani Cauthen

Perspective

The “Prove It First” Trap of Digital Transition

A Five-Part Series Based on 2 Years on the Road Looking for Transition Success

LeiLani Cauthen

Tactics

Amidst Disunity, Newark Keeps Focused

Good teachers and digital tools are helping to find light at the end of the tunnel

Cebron Walker

Spotlight

Accelerating Education with STEM

A New Approach to STEM Education at a Rural Elementary School Revs up Learning with Hands-on Student Experiences

Julia Brolin

Perspective

3 Ways Blended Learning Improves Student Outcomes

Researchers at Arizona State document that a mix of online and in-person instruction does transform teaching and learning

Christopher Piehler

Perspective

Bringing Digital Curriculum To Life

A look “under the hood” of digital curriculum design to see what is being done to create fun, rigorous, personalized learning

Christopher Piehler

Spotlight

Learning Counsel Awards Top Districts

The Learning Counsel Recognized Top Districts and Schools in the U.S. at Their Annual National Gathering

Cebron Walker

Innovation

The Classroom of the Future

Mention the “classroom of the future” and it might evoke images of an old Jetsons cartoon—Elroy and his fellow students working on tablets, following a lecture by a virtual teacher and collaborating on space-aged technology

Cebron Walker


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...