Featured Articles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
