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Dr. Lee Buddy Jr.: Cleveland Rocks the Post-Pandemic Mission

Dr. Lee Buddy Jr. is a long-time friend of the Learning Counsel, and as the new Chief Engagement Officer at the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Dr. Buddy is rocking Cleveland MSD’s 40,00...

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LeiLani Cauthen: The Briefing

If you have never seen one of LeiLani Cauthen’s Digital Transition Briefings, you are in for a treat. In this briefing, Cauthen shared some of the high points of the 2021 Digital Transition Nati...

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Guest Keynote: Kimberly Nidy, Director of Technology at North Canton City Schools

How do you maintain instructional continuity in this age of sometimes at school , sometimes at home , and teacher absences due to quarantines ? Is there a way to create and maintain a system ...

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Columbus, OH: Guest Administrator Panel Discussion

One of the things that Learning Counsel members love about our Guest Administrator Panel Discussions is the range of ideas that surface, often presented with a no-holds barred attitude. The idea...

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What Learners Want: Hollis Milton, Superintendent, West Feliciana Parish Schools

Hollis Milton was the Louisiana Superintendent of the Year in 2018, and currently serves as superintendent of the West Feliciana Parish Schools. Following are some thoughts he shared in a presen...

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Baton Rouge, LA 2022 Administrator Panel Discussion

Everyone loves the Administrator Panel Discussions at the Learning Counsel’s Regional Digital Transition Events. Perhaps it is because we feature some of America’s brightest education minds in e...

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Retain and Recruit through a Culture of Collaboration

In this important discussion led by Marcus Meyers , Chief Academic Officer at the West Ada School District, Meyers asks, “Why are the right people leaving or not knocking? First of all, we're e...

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Boise, ID 2022: Administrators' Panel Discussion

Learning Counsel members love the Administrators’ Panel Discussions at our Digital Transition Discussions. They love the frankness, the no-holds-barred attitude, but mostly our members love the ...

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OR/WA 2022: Guest Administrator Panel

Always a fan favorite, the Guest Administrator Panel features some of our nation’s smartest education administrators weighing in on some of our nation’s most challenging questions. Everything is...

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Reimagining Outcomes with Dr. Ellen Perconti, Superintendent at the Goldendale School District

Like all of you, in March, 2020, we went remote,” said Dr. Ellen Perconti, Superintendent at the Goldendale School District. “Your kids will not be in front of you. So, let's do some projects yo...

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OR/WA 2022: Hybrid Logistics Briefing

Perhaps the biggest thing in education right now is the acceptance and use of the hybrid logistics model of learning. According to Mary Schlegelmilch, Education Advocate at Cisco, “This is where...

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OR/WA 2022 Workshop: Learning Design

Perhaps one of the more complicated discussion subjects is Learning Design. In this workshop, Chris McMurray, Vice President for EduJedi Leadership at the Learning Counsel, helps sort out the st...

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OR/WA 2022 Workshop: Emerging Tech Issues

In this workshop led by Chris McMurray, Vice President of the EduJedi Leadership Society at the Learning Counsel, School and district leaders discussed many of their emerging tech issues, and ad...

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OR/WA 2022 Workshop: Maturity Stages of Digital Transition

Stage One: Schools typically start with mass device and digital curriculum resource adoption, often without a comprehensive strategy. Stage two is piloting of teaching and learning method...

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OR/WA 2022: The Briefing

In this virtual Digital Transition Discussion for Washington and Oregon, the discussion began with a briefing from LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher of the Learning Counsel. “Part of what we'll...

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OR/WA 2022 Workshop: Digital Terms and Systems Thinking

By Definition : Systems thinking is a management discipline that first observes discrete functions and interactions between components. In education, that would be the interactions among teach...

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Phoenix, AZ 2022: Digital Transition Guest Administrator Panel Discussion

Perhaps the favorite part of our Digital Transition Discussion events is our Guest Administrator Panel Discussion, and for good reason. We take some of the brightest, most highly regarded admini...

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Salt Lake City, UT 2022: Guest Administrator Panel Discussion

The crown jewel in this year’s Salt Lake City area Digital Transition Event, was the Guest Administrator Panel Discussion, always a must-see event featuring some of the nation’s greatest educati...

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Blackboard Ally Speed Round #1 - Accessibility

As part of this year’s National Gathering, The Learning Counsel included some very valuable Speed Round presentations. These Speed Round presentations are short, succinct, yet important looks at...

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Instructional Secret Sauce: Focusing on the Learner and the Learning

David Jarboe, Director of Instructional Technology and STEAM at Harrison School District 2 (and EduJedi Gainer Level award winner), is sharing his Secret Sauce presentation – some of the ideas t...

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