Featured Articles
Science, the First Digital Learning Frontier
Is NGSS the perfect launch point for districts into all digital curriculum and content?
Dr. Lundon Jackson
Facing Down the Learning Content Disruption
K-12 Schools and Higher Ed Institutions are Facing Down Serious Disruption in Learning Content—Going from Paper to Digital in All Things
David Kafitz
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
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
Education as Media
If “Content is King” then Your Learning Platform Should be its Queen…
Tom Winterstein
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
Coffee Chat with Memphis
The Learning Counsel (The LC) conducts virtual coffee chats with school leaders to discuss what’s happening with their use of digital curriculum. A well-known industry leader, Cleon Franklin o...
The LC Staff
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
Checklist of Top 10 Benchmarks for Instructional Materials
How do you know you have quality digital learning content? This question could be made incredibly complex, but luckily people in-the-know have given ten simple guidelines
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
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
How to Be
Recently while speaking in Memphis, Tennessee on the Design Economy, the leaders in Memphis wanted to know what it meant for teaching. (See “Educating for the Design Economy.”) I answered with...
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
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