Featured Articles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Health Care Curriculum Guide
Recently the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), Association of American Publishers (AAP), and the Associati...
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
