Featured Articles
Five Types of Curriculum "Things"
I have had the pleasure of interviewing a lot of industry leaders and educator’s on the subject of digital content and curriculum used in schools. These, a lot of research, and plain old-fashion...
LeiLani Cauthen
A Few Words
Does Your School Organizational Chart Prevent Success Transitioning to Digital?
David Kafitz
How BIG is the K-12 Digital Curriculum Market?
With so many schools in transition, executives want to know what others are doing with digital curriculum. The question of what, how much of it, and more is being answered – from definitions to market size
LeiLani Cauthen
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
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
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
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
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
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
STEM + Tech x Hands-On Learning = An Equation for Engaged Students
Educational technology can transform the teaching and learning process. This is especially true in STEM classrooms where software and some cool, hands-on hardware tools can engage students in scientific discovery
Christine Allman
Facing Down the Learning Content Disruption
Schools and higher education institutions are facing down a serious disruption in learning content, going from paper to digital in all things. For nearly 100 years, classroom teaching has center...
David Kafitz
Coffee Chat with Houston ISD
The Learning Counsel (The LC) conducts virtual coffee chats with school leaders to discuss what’s happening with their use of digital curriculum. Two of Houston Independent School District’s l...
The LC Staff
Revising Adoption of Curriculum Materials & The Hidden Inequity
Digital curriculum and content is disrupting the marketplace for instructional materials. Large publishing houses who once commanded 85% of this marketplace and faced only smaller, niche-based c...
David Kafitz
Wanted: New Leader & Teacher Features
What are the newly wanted leader and teacher features, or skills, for today’s educational systems? We all know a good teacher when we see one, but what about the fact that not all of them are? ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Education Compared to All Other Industry
Let’s add some perspective to, say, Education as an industry compared with All Other Industry. Here is Education in one corner with a ratio of 49% administration to 51% actual instructional st...
LeiLani Cauthen
School Risk of Plagiarism in Creating your own Digital Curriculum
In the rush to create digital materials, are teachers possibly plagiarizing copyrighted works? Just what is plagiarism? An excellent understanding can be found here at Plagiarism.org . Teac...
The LC Staff
To Solution or Element – That is the Question
Cueing off the famous line from Shakespeare, “To be or not to be, that is the question,” today in schools it’s, “Be solutions or not-to-be solutions, and use random elements, that is the questio...
The LC Staff
Amazon Has the Most Education Apps
A look at the App Universe across Microsoft Windows, Amazon, Google Android and Apple's iTunes
The LC Staff
Educating for the Design Economy
Educating for the Design Economy Last year I spoke to a crowd of about 1400 instructional technologists from the greater Shelby County area schools during a tech conference in Memphis. The t...
Leilani Cauthen
What's So Hard About Choosing Digital Curriculum?
What’s so hard about choosing digital curriculum, you say? Time. 1. Time it takes to choose. 2. Time it takes to trial. 3. Time it takes to see if it works. Time is money, folks. So all ...
The LC Staff
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
