Featured Articles
Project Tomorrow to Host "Speak Up for America's Teachers," Voicing Key Input on Education Issues
During “Speak Up Day for America’s Teachers” on May 10, a panel of national school district leaders and teachers will reflect on two decades of survey findings to inform and influence the future of K-12 education
Training and Teacher Supports During a Very Unique Year
Tech can either simplify a situation or make it more complex. The decisions invariably lay in the hands of someone like Ashley Weaver, Instructional Technology Coach at Kearney School District. ...
Building the Future of Professional and Career Data for Educators
Randa is working on the leading edge of digital identity, making great strides helping teachers with credentialing, and they recently won the American Council on Education's Blockchain Innovatio...
5 Essential Screen Sharing Tips for Teachers
It's easy to forget that when you're sharing your screen with your online class, your students will see EVERYTHING that you're sharing. And we mean everything. Your past search history, email or...
10 New Year's Resolutions for Teachers that You Can Still Do
As a teacher, your New Year’s resolutions involve more than the average person. You're running a classroom, keeping up with administrative policies, navigating parents, and trying to attend to y...
5 Ways to Develop Teacher Agency and Advance Student Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t only exposed the vast gap in educational equity for students, it has revealed gaps for teachers as well. Though district leaders are working diligently to get the te...
Navigating the New Normal: A Guide for Our At-Risk 50-and-Up Educators
As schools gradually reopen, students, teachers and staff are all vulnerable to the lasting effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes how 29 ...
Virtual Classroom 2.0 12 Tips for the Virtual Teacher
In this article, we’ll provide you quick and effective ways to have the right setup, tools, techniques to increase your effectiveness with students, parents, and administrators. For administrato...
For the Educator-Entrepreneur in the New Year
Some words of advice for those of you who are working a side hustle or starting a new business:
Curriculum Associates CEO Rob Waldron: Reinforcing Quality Work
Rob Waldron joined Curriculum Associates in 2008, bringing leadership experience from both for-profit and nonprofit education worlds. He runs the company with a long-term focus, upholding the fo...
Helping Teachers Evaluate Student Progress
Christine Willig, a 25-year K-12 industry veteran, became CEO of Illuminate Education following a five-way merger in July 2018. The merger combined assessment and data platforms (Illuminate Ed...
Disruption: The Sum of the Effect
Here is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of The Consumerization of Learning . "What’s the sum of all this semi-invisible disruptive force known generally as the technology transition running ov...
Helping Education Differentiate Student Learning Abilities
Meeting and discussing individualized instruction with Mindprint Learning founder and CEO Nancy Weinstein articulated the importance of discovering how students learn. She supported my interest ...
More Technology Equals More Learning, Right?
As I visit schools and districts, one thing consistently stands out: people like to talk about technology. A lot. Conversations about their digital conversion and the number of Chromebooks, iPad...
Learning Counsel Discusses EdTech Challenges and Solutions with Education Leaders
Learning Counsel held our 3 rd Digital Transition Discussion of the year in Charlotte, NC on February 1 st , 2018. At the event education executives listened to presentations from leaders in th...
Online Teaching Jobs Growing
Online schools are reporting a steady increase of K-12 students in the last decade according to National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). More families and students consider their digit...
Teachers Working From Home In Their Pajamas?
Telecommuting is nothing new in corporate America. For some professions, it is even becoming commonplace. The Sales Rep who lives in Texas, but has their corporate offices in California. But for...
5 Best Practices for Developing Personalized PD for Teachers
Tactics that will help leaders deliver instruction that engages and inspires
Are you still going to prefer OER? The $2.28 Billion Loss to Publishers & the Future – Part 1
This question of preferring Open Education Resources (OER) is one for everyone in education to ask. Free is great, but is it really free? I recently asked this of the new CEO of ISTE, Richar...
San Diego Leadership Defines Transformation
Teachers are swamped; digital curriculum implementation hot topic in discussion meeting
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
