Featured Articles
Unlocking Genuine Motivation for Lifelong Learning and Success
Most educators, at least implicitly, believe motivation is something you either have or don’t. So, for the students who don’t, they’ve designed an emotional torture chamber that makes learnin...
Garrett Smiley
Taking and Giving Feedback with a Growth Mindset
One of the questions on the growth mindset quiz that we use to help our clients (and ourselves) assess our growth mindset is this: “I appreciate when instructors and coaches give me feedba...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Using Data in the Era of the Great Rationalization and Consolidation
During the COVID-19 pandemic, EdTech tools and resources flooded into classrooms nationwide. As the unprecedented, pandemic-driven levels of school funding recede and budgets tighten, school ...
Lisa Katz
Expanding Family Involvement
No matter what the barriers you face, the first step to engaging families in your school is learning to empathize with them.
Laura Nicole Hill
What is STEM: An Exploration Beyond the Acronym
In the heart of Moscow, in 1929, a man named Solomon Shereshevsky walked into the Academy of Communist Education, unknowingly about to reveal a paradox that lies at the core of what we unders...
Jason McKenna
Adopting a Schoolwide Communications Platform
Until 2021, we were using a legacy mass notification platform for our school-to-home communications. The system was cumbersome and difficult to use, and teachers didn’t want to use it for the...
Stephanie Deming and Brittany Long
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Ivy Nelson's Insights on Humanizing Technology in Belton School District
At the Learning Leadership Symposium, Ivy Nelson, CETL, Instructional Technology Manager at Belton School District #124, took the stage to share the district's journey of humanizing tec...
Doug Cauthen
Brewster Central School District's Strategic Leadership Priorities: A Journey Towards Student Success
Dr. Laurie Barlow, Superintendent of Schools, and Dr. Michelle Gosh, Deputy Superintendent, recently shared their insights and strategies at the Learning Counsel Learning Leadership Symposium h...
Doug Cauthen
My Personal Story of Hybrid Logistics and a new Form of Schooling
Do you know about the Hybrid Logistics Project? This is my journey to study logistics, small-batch manufacturing and time and space use, and apply them to a foster a whole new form of schoo...
LeiLani Cauthen
Closing the Capacity Gap: An Effective Intervention for Title I Students
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is the illusion of knowledge” --Roger Stark The Illogical Logic of Title I Funding Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 wa...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Lessons Learned: LCFF 10 Years Later – How Data Can Support District Goals
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which was set in place in 2013 to direct more funds to districts with the most high-need students...
Jonathan Strout and Jodi Peters
A Schooling Metamorphosis that’s not What You Think
Do you know about the Hybrid Logistics Project? Most educators think of “hybrid” learning in a couple of ways. They either think it’s live video conferencing with the same class structure a...
Learning Counsel
Celebrate Good Times: Come On!
I see a lot of nervous Nellies out there. And guarded Garrys. And cautious Carls. 2022 brought us the biggest opportunity for learners since, well, ever. When generative AI was heralded a y...
Charles Sosnik
Digital Wellness: Nurturing Health in the Online Learning Era
As the landscape of education undergoes a digital transformation, educators find themselves navigating the challenges of online teaching with unprecedented intensity. In this new era of virtual...
Ruby Doherty
Bullying Explained, and How to Navigate It
Going to school should be an exciting venture for a child. After all, it’s their first approach to having social interaction with other children of their own age. It’s a chance to be original...
Dr. Suzanne Barchers
A Pinnacle in Colorado: Supportive School Board and Genuine Leaders in St. Vrain Valley Schools
Our present time of teacher shortage, absenteeism, learning loss and more are extremely tough on leaders in schools and districts. Getting a strategy and tactics right while continuing to roll ...
Doug Cauthen
Is Being Bilingual A Superpower?
Do you speak more than one language? Are you a multilingual speaker? This is part three of our interview series, “Thinking in Two Languages.” I had the chance to sit down and talk with Mari...
Robyn D. Shulman
Increase Learning through Force Multiplication: (Intelligence)2 = (Learning) x (FM)
Now that we are fans of the Science of Learning , we thought we would take a look and see if there was some type of magic bullet, something that could increase the overall effect of the Science ...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Weeding the Garden for Technology Choking Our Schools
The EdTech ecosystem – the educators, administrators, entrepreneurs and investors – spends a significant amount of time talking about specific technology innovations, solutions, platforms, an...
Al Kingsley
How Parents Can Play a Huge Role Increasing Literacy (and What to Share with Them)
With National Literacy Month upon us, I find myself reflecting on the unique role parents can play to inspire a lifelong love for reading in their children. As a career educator with 14 years...
Brendan Kells
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.
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
Hybrid Logistics Security
