Featured Articles

Ideas

Gamification & The New Education Paradigm

The shift from “Should I use games?” to “What makes a game effective?”

Suzi Wilczynski

Tactics

5 Questions to Ask If You Are Struggling with Your Flipped Class

The success of any initiative—including personalizing the classroom—relies on the professional development and resources educators receive

Aaron Sams, M.A.Ed & Jon Bergmann

Spotlight

What’s Wrong with SAMR in Education?

Does SAMR continue to meet the need of describing the depth and breadth of change needed in education today?

LeiLani Cauthen

Spotlight

Summer School—Digital Style

How one school is solving the timeless dilemma of student willingness and involvement and is making summer school count for each child

Rachel Norris

Innovation

Technology is Smoothing Teacher Hiring

Technology and digitalization isn’t just helping in the classroom. Miami-Dade is using it to ensure all schools have equal access to high quality applicants, and to streamline the hiring process

Lauren O’Mara

Thoughts

Re-thinking Failure

If failure, in one way or another, is unavoidable, isn’t it time to rethink our education system, to redesign our curricula, and to embrace failure instead of stigmatizing it?

Allison Segeren

Tactics

Education as Media

If “Content is King” then Your Learning Platform Should be its Queen…

Tom Winterstein

Perspective

What’s Hot & What’s Not in Education’s Digital Transition

Over a warm cup of coffee and a fabulous breakfast at the trendy Marathon Grill in Philadelphia, the Learning Counsel met with some of our fav’s from education and some partners straight outta t...

LeiLani Cauthen

Spotlight

Transitioning to Online Curriculum in Central Texas

If some educators feel that transformation is minimizing their craft, here’s a fresh look at taking the classroom back with digital and online curriculum

Mike Saenz

Innovation

Boredom in the Classroom—An Education Crisis

New video based digital curriculum, powered by leading edge learning dynamics, is helping to make K-12 education equitable for all students

Cebron Walker

Spotlight

Top 10 U.S. Schools to Win Awards for Moving to Digital Curriculum

The Learning Counsel and T-Mobile honor these schools and districts for advancing digital content in their schools and communities

LeiLani Cauthen

Thoughts

Calling for the End of “Mc”Report Cards

A better, new 4-Part Report Card would have a human side. New technology may be just the ticket to bring back good ol’ fashioned teacher care and attention and parental involvement

LeiLani Cauthen

Ideas

We Need New Words for Digital Curriculum

Digital Curriculum is a lot of things, but what it has yet to achieve is an agreed-upon set of words describing what it is and does to give it more context of what’s happening with it in schools today

LeiLani Cauthen

Ideas

35 New Capabilities of Digital Curriculum that left Textbooks in the Dust

Digital curriculum is evolving in leaps and bounds. New capabilities really do make the days of textbooks look like a whole lot of manual work

LeiLani Cauthen

Innovation

Common Core Curriculum Choice - Meeting the “Verb”

An interesting new site and service has undertaken the arduous task otherwise distributed to every teacher and every school across the entire U.S. – analyzing digital materials from a number of ...

The LC Staff

Research

How Teachers Learn

*/ Did anyone just ask teachers how they learn so that the right professional development could be adopted to enable their transition to digital teaching? Yes. Digital tools are now...

Joe Du Fore

Tactics

Organizing Basics for the Digital Transition & the Laundry

The average organizational structures in districts all across the U.S. are governed by numerous laws, geographic boundaries and traditions. They tend to look the same as they did one hundred yea...

LeiLani Cauthen

Innovation

New Simulation Curriculum Saves Lives

Save a life, perhaps even yours. Virtual driving simulation curriculum, complete with accident consequences, such as having to visit a judge or pay for a ticket, are taking student driver’s educ...

LeiLani Cauthen

Innovation

Digitally Delivering Special Education in Tennessee

Many districts struggle with delivering on the promise of special education, and the problem is only going to get worse. The average district spends an average of $51,000 per speech language pat...

John Enright

Tactics

Versatility: Our Notes on the NOOK

Want to know what Apps are available on the Nook? Here’s a compendium of available apps, courtesy of Barnes & Noble

LeiLani Cauthen


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...