Featured Articles
Three steps to a robust zero-trust architecture for K-12 schools this academic year
As the buzz around back-to-school season subsides and teachers and students fall into the rhythm of a new academic year, it’s time for K-12 administrators and district leaders to turn their a...
Charlie Sander
Best Practices for AI Upskilling: Four Culture Building Strategies
As AI continues to grow in acceptance and use in the workplace the need for AI upskilling has become essential for employers who want to leverage the power of these new and exciting tools. Ho...
Marc Booker, Ph.D.
The Age of AI Is Really the Age of the Learner
“There will be a shift in demand toward higher cognitive skills. Our research also finds a shift from activities that require only basic cognitive skills to those that use higher cognitive s...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
K–12 Communications in 2026: Consolidation, Strategy, and Measurable Engagement
If 2020–2024 were the years districts accelerated communication, 2026 is shaping up to be the year districts refine it. Across the country, district leaders and communications professionals ...
Dr. Chad A. Stevens
STEM is over and Why Schools Missed the Warning Signs
For years, the mantra was clear: “Study STEM and you’ll never struggle for work.” Policymakers, educators, and parents pushed science, technology, engineering, and math as the golden ticket t...
LeiLani Cauthen
How Schools Can Empower Parents as Partners in Learning
Families want to support their children’s learning, but busy schedules, unclear guidance, and fragmented communication with schools often get in the way. No matter how much parents want to he...
Torrey Maloof
Wave of School Closures Sweeps U.S. as Urban Exodus and Shift to Smaller Learning Environments Reshape Education Landscape
In a stark reflection of ongoing demographic and societal shifts, public school districts across the United States are announcing a record number of closures for the 2026-27 academic year and...
LC Staff
The Emerging AI Schooling Model - Pathflex
A new AI schooling model is emerging—one driven by human learning science and enabled by a special role for Time AI. This model transforms not only when learning happens, but where it happe...
LeiLani Cauthen
Schools Are Losing the AI Plot: Why Consumer Tool Chaos Undercuts Security, Equity, and Transformation
Little Rock, AR — As districts tiptoe into AI by “letting teachers experiment” with consumer tools like ChatGPT or Gemini, they risk locking themselves into fragmented pilots that never sca...
LeiLani Cauthen
How Cell Phone Bans Will Change K-12 Family Engagement
When my son was in third grade, a group of friends dared him to stick his head in the toilet in the school bathroom. He did it. I heard about it before he got home. Not because he texted me. ...
Dr. Kara Stern
Before AI, Fix Tech Done Wrong in Education
Most schools have “gone digital” in form, not function. Adding Generative AI will only exacerbate a very key problem: tech is used currently by 90% of teachers to automate analog actions, not...
LeiLani Cauthen
Beyond Notifications: Rebuilding Communication Equity in the Age of Hybrid Learning
In nearly every school district I visit, leaders speak passionately about equity, access, and closing learning gaps. Yet behind the scenes, a quieter inequity persists - one woven directly in...
Chakrapani “Chaks” Appalabattula
How Two Kentucky School Districts Navigated Senate Bill 181 with Confidence
When Kentucky’s Senate Bill 181 passed in 2024, it set a new bar for protecting students and safeguarding staff by requiring all districts to adopt a trackable, traceable communication platfo...
Tiffany Blazina and Amy Hill
Stop Closing Schools: AI Logistics Allows Strategic Retreat to Satellite Lounge Schooling
Summary; Satellite Lounge schooling changes and gains Time AI as a solution Key concepts Budget hypothetical Stop closing schools -- close your budget gaps. Consolidation to central ...
LeiLani Cauthen
The power of simple: Unified communication strengthened trust in Passaic Schools
When Passaic Public Schools set out to improve family communication, our goal wasn’t to add another tool. It was to simplify—and build continued trust. In a district serving nearly 12,000 st...
Dr. Joanna Antoniou
2025 Bond Bonanza, but Looming Transition Away from Factory-Model Schooling Using AI
Across the United States, 2025 marked another year of intense activity in school district bond elections. Districts large and small asked voters to approve billions in general obligation bond...
Learning Counsel Research
AI vs. Human Intelligence - the Differences
How exactly are humans different than what AI can be made to do? Learning Counsel Research found that merely saying “creativity” or “critical thinking” was not enough. The actual mechanics...
LeiLani Cauthen
The Issues of Moving to Omni-AI Schooling to Escape the Factory Model
The idea of an AI schooling model has caught on already in K12. Not as a “tool,” but with AI as an infrastructure. Not as teacher-less, but more humanized, using teachers precisely and unbu...
LeiLani Cauthen
Reimagining the Paraeducator Role to Strengthen Special Education
I’ve spent my career working in and alongside special education teams, and I’ve never seen the need for paraeducator support as urgent as it is today. While districts around the country are f...
Dr. Kathleen Adolt-Silva
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
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
