Featured Articles

Thoughts

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

Spotlight

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

Research

Digital Curriculum Vs. Traditional Textbooks: A Research Study

A 2-Year Research Study Proves Digital Curriculum Supplimentation Increases Test Scores, Increases Achievement for At-Risk Students

Julie B. Garcia

Spotlight

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

Thoughts

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

Spotlight

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

Perspective

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

Tactics

Education as Media

If “Content is King” then Your Learning Platform Should be its Queen…

Tom Winterstein

Ideas

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

Innovation

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

Thoughts

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

Innovation

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

Research

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

Tactics

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

Innovation

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

Spotlight

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

Thoughts

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

People

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

Perspective

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

People

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
Discussing the issues of student absenteeism, staffing and privacy might seem like biting off more than one leader can chew, but they are related from an important perspective: managing transacti...
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
K12 human resources are crucial to utilizing the cloud successfully. Roles and responsibilities have all changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, and a new trend to move to core co...
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missin...
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
Most administrators know there are still gaps remaining in their school or district’s digital transition. Recent studies including the 2021 Digital Transition Surveys for Administrators and Teache...
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and f...
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Seeing the Levels of Chaos Helps Anchor Bringing Order Schools and districts that recently lost 4 percent of students to alternatives continued to lose students in 2021 at an accelerated pace (no...