Featured Articles
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
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
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
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
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
The Need for Speed
Bandwidth in Public Schools: Superintendents Share Best Practices on District Infrastructure and Upgrading Your Network
Nell Hurley
Education Transformation End-Point: The Age of Experience
Where are we headed, anyway? What is the end-point of the digital transformation for K-12 education? The Learning Counsel has been in fifteen metro areas so far in 2014 meeting with public an...
LeiLani Cauthen
Five Key Lessons in Common Core Readiness
As students complete the first round of high-stakes tests aligned with the Common Core standards, what can school and district leaders learn from the process that can help them better prepare fo...
Dennis Pierce
Moving from Mobile Devices to Mobile Learning
When a school makes the move to use mobile technology in the classroom, how does it (and its parents, and students) know the devices will impact learning? How do districts know that those expens...
Jamie McQuiggan
Tech and Why Teaching Writing is Critical for Reading
As teachers and schools address transitioning to digital, it's important to seize the chance to upgrade teaching and learning. Enhanced writing skill is one way to speed greater achievement
Dr. Marion Blank
STEM and Project Based Learning, a Perfect Pair!
PBL develops the critical thinking and problem solving skills that Common Core State Standards emphasize and that students need for success in college, career, and life.
Emily Garner Sumner
The Learning Counsel Awards the Alabama State Board of Education's ALEX Program
Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required. At the January 14, 2015 Alabama State Board of Education Meeting, Dr. David Kafitz, Vice President of School Relations and Consultin...
Cebron Walker
Catching At-Risk Students
Virtual Learning Prepares High Schoolers for Graduation and Life
Dennis Pierce
Read. Grow. Repeat.
How one school district in Georgia is creating motivated readers and learners through their strategy for digital transformation—and saving significant time and money in the process
Teri Harris
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
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
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
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
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
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
