Featured Articles

X Tag: charles-sosnik
For Vendors

Never is a Long, Long Time

Never in the history of EdTech, Education or Technology have we seen the amount of investment rumble into K-12 education. Daily, I am reading articles about record investment or new, newer or ne...

Charles Sosnik

For Vendors

It’s a Busy Time in Education Biz

There are so many great things going on in the Education industry. In fact, it seems there is no such thing as an average week anymore; each one is exciting and bursting at the seams with activi...

Charles Sosnik

For Vendors

Are You Having Fun Yet?

Hey you. Out there in San Francisco. And Chicago. And Atlanta. And New Jersey. And Tampa. And Dallas, and Silver Spring. For those of you running your education businesses in every major metropo...

Charles Sosnik

For Vendors

We’re Back in the Saddle Again

“I'm back in the saddle again Out where a friend is a friend” --Gene Autry Maybe these Gene Autry lyrics are just a bit dated. Or maybe I’m just a bit older than the law allows. But I c...

Charles Sosnik

Thoughts

Passing Heroes and Thoughts for a New Generation

My heroes have always been cowboys And they still are, it seems Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams --Willie Nelson   America lost a h...

Charles Sosnik

Ideas

Getting Beyond the News Fix

The headlines in the news this Fall seem so predictable. I don’t know if that is because I am old and have seen it “all” before, or because the coverage of events is predictable. But whatever ...

Charles Sosnik

Thoughts

Remember the Good Old Days

Remember the good old days, before COVID changed our daily routines and sent our children home to have school with their parents or grandparents? Remember when things made sense, and you knew ...

Charles Sosnik

Ideas

Timing is Everything

I read a piece in one of the weekly education publications; a superintendent had been quoted warning of the funding cliff coming in two years. This supe seemed to be making the best of it, not s...

Charles Sosnik

Perspective

Have You Seen My $130 Billion?

Okay. I am officially in the Twilight Zone. For the life of me, I don’t understand why schools aren’t going crazy over the $130 Billion (+) still left to be spent from the various stimuli fund...

Charles Sosnik

Thoughts

The Best is Yet to Come

“Still, it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine” --Frank   I was tempted to quote Dickens for this one; that trite and qui...

Charles Sosnik

Thoughts

Sweet, Sweet Land of Liberty!

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From ev'ry mountainside Let freedom ring! If you grew up in the ...

Charles Sosnik

Perspective

Is School Necessary?

I remember hearing this question spoken in an interview about five years ago, and it almost knocked me out of my chair. Having grown up in public school, attended a state institution of higher...

Charles Sosnik

Share to Care

The Kids are Alright

“Sometimes, I feel I gotta get away Bells chime, I know I gotta get away And I know if I don't, I'll go out of my mind” --Pete Townshend, The Who   If you believe everything you read, th...

Charles Sosnik

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
K12 human resources are crucial to utilizing the cloud successfully. Roles and responsibilities have all changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, and a new trend to move to core co...
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missin...
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
Most administrators know there are still gaps remaining in their school or district’s digital transition. Recent studies including the 2021 Digital Transition Surveys for Administrators and Teache...
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and f...
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Seeing the Levels of Chaos Helps Anchor Bringing Order Schools and districts that recently lost 4 percent of students to alternatives continued to lose students in 2021 at an accelerated pace (no...
Hybrid Logistics Security
Your district is a brand, and your network security helps power its reputation. With the accelerated move to hybrid learning environments over the past year, school districts across the nation are...