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Deploying Distance Learning for Access Equity – 2 New Ways
The challenges created by distance learning have put a sharp lens on the lack of access equity for students (and their families). Fortunately, the problems are not insurmountable, and districts...
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Social Distancing Tech for Hybrid Schools
One of the most difficult aspects of our return to physical school is the question of proper social distancing. Even with a hybrid model of learning, the implications of student safety are massi...
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Using this Stimulus Wisely to Go Hybrid
Any way you slice it, the CARES Act stimulus will bring a lot of money into K-12 this year. How wisely districts can utilize this funding will determine, to a large extent, the success they find...
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Hybrid Schools Putting AI Personalization to Work Now
As schools open this fall after a long hiatus, school and district leaders are searching for the best way to construct a hybrid model of learning and the best tools to help make learning a succe...
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The New Digital vs. Digitized: Differences & Impact Right Now
As we reopen our schools, everything seems to be on the table. The question of using true digital, professional-grade courseware vs. digitized, often teacher-created curriculum is an important o...
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Architecting Hybrid Learning for the New School Year: Panel One
The new school year is almost upon us, and many questions remain. Planning for the 2020/2021 school year is a guessing game at best, with one-part art, one-part science, and a generous helping o...
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Surviving the Aftermath of COVID-19: Continued Caution Ahead
There is no magic bullet for schools to successfully navigate the aftermath of COVID-19. Even our nation’s best education minds are feeling their way through, combining technology with a generou...
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The “World After Quarantine” Definition of Hybrid Learning
How does the school world look after quarantine? Everyone is planning some sort of hybrid model of learning, but definitions of hybrid learning may be forever changed. In this episode of the Lea...
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Schools as Epicenters of Our Economic Recovery
After the devastation COVID-19 has done to the American economy, many of us don’t know how we can help. The simple truth is that now as always, there is a direct and immediate relationship betwe...
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Virtual Literacy: What is State of the Art Now?
We have come a long way since we taught readin’ and writin.’ But even with the amazing progress we have made in the science of literacy, it is still sometimes more of an art than a science. With...
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Working through the Challenges of Virtual STEM: A State-of-the-Art Discussion
Learning is at a crossroads, and the decisions we make today may well set the course for the coming years in educational instruction. In this Learning Counsel Crossroads Virtual Discussion , so...
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The Question of Screen Time Once Again is Front and Center
Studies identify the optimum screen time for children, and most schools are very careful to adhere to the guidelines. Even so, the question of screen time is never far in the background, especia...
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The Logistics of Remote Social Emotional Learning
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, districts reported that social emotional issues were their number one pressure point. Now that districts are forced to deliver learning remotely, the need for ...
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Enabling Personalized Workflow Learning
Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, learning progress is being made in small ways as well as at-scale. These national education professionals are all leaders in the digital transition, and you’ll...
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Utilizing Teachers Remotely: Districts Find New Ways to Support our Frontline Heroes
Teachers have always been at the center of learning, but what we’re finding is teachers have become even more important as the world has been forced to shift to virtual learning due to COVID-1...
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Determining the Right Plans Based on Your Inventory of Digital Resources
Going to war with the army you have
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On-Campus and Online Instant Flexibility: What You Need to Know
There has never been a more urgent time for learning institutions to transition to a fully-blended model, with the ability to instantly change from an on-campus to an online trajectory. In this ...
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Hey CIOs: Are You Doing the Pandemic Scramble?
Never has technology taken on a greater role in education, and at no time has there been more pressure to get it right. In this installment of the Learning Counsel’s Emergency National Virtual D...
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It’s Zero Hour for Digital: What does that mean for you?
March 11 th marked our first day of the new reality in America. Since that time, calls to the Learning Counsel have been a constant. The first in the series of Emergency National Virtual...
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