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Brain-based, on-line 3-hour PD designed to help educators foster mental wellness.
Pathways: Educator-First Professional development programs are three-hour self-paced PD programs designed specifically for K-2, 3-5, and 6-12 educators to help them understand how to foster thei...
Shift to Digital Learning - Considerations
The fantastic thing about the Learning Counsel’s Lunch and Learn presentations is they give us the opportunity to share hand-selected products and services that your school or district needs to ...
Reading is for Everyone
Our special Lunch and Learn presentations are an opportunity for you to peruse education companies that you need to know about. These companies have all been vetted and come highly recommended b...
Pennsylvania - Digital Experience Standards: “New Model of Instructional Design and Dictionary Definitions Workshop”
Leading this workshop is Chris McMurray, VP of EduJedi Leadership at the Learning Counsel. In today’s session, you’ll learn different ways to look at your district’s digital resources, with an e...
Fostering Connectedness and Promoting SEL
What are the programs you can use in your classrooms that will help get and keep your students connected? And how do these programs aid in the social emotional learning of your students? In this...
Pennsylvania - Local Panel of Administrators: “Our Digital Transition”
It is simply amazing how much talent is in the state of Pennsylvania. In this Local Panel of Administrators discussion, these local administrators happen to be among the best educational minds i...
Bricks to Bytes Instruction During a Pandemic
There is so much to be learned during a pandemic, as the Berks Career and Technology Center shares in this very informative video. According to Michael Stein, M.S.Ed, Technology Integration Coac...
Three Things That Matter! One Portal Access, Measurement, and Digital Resource Management or Account Creation!
The wonderful thing about our Lunch and Learn presentations is that it gives the Learning Counsel the opportunity to recommend specific products and services that your district needs. In this sp...
Pennsylvania - Everything Changed: “Using Space & Time Today and Hybrid Logistics Best Practices”
Years from now, when we look back at this time, we will recognize it as the period in public education when everything changed. In essence, the pandemic was a catalyst for many of the changes th...
21st Century Classrooms @ Parkland
As we approach the mid-21 st Century, the term 21 st Century Classroom begins to take on a very different meaning. In today’s Educator Session on Hybrid Learning, the gang from Pennsylvania’s ...
Challenges that St. Paul Public Schools has never Dreamed of Navigating
You never know what you can accomplish until you are forced to try. In the case of Saint Paul Public Schools, that axiom was put to the test like never before when the pandemic hit last March. O...
Capstone Connect
The Learning Counsel created our Lunch and Learn series as a way to introduce companies, products and services that America’s school districts and independent schools need to be familiar with. I...
Minnesota - Digital Experience Standards, New Model of Instructional Design and Dictionary Defintions Workshop
Chris McMurray is the VP of EduJedi Leadership at the Learning Counsel. In today’s workshop, Chris will help us understand the new responsibilities of the digital learning experience. According ...
Leading Through a Pandemic: What Have We Learned?
We can say this past year was a year of lessons, often taught in rapid succession. In the case of Dr. Lori J. Simon, Superintendent of the Rapid City Area Schools, these lessons helped to innova...
Where Do We Go From Here?
At Warroad Public Schools, everyone wears a lot of hats. Instead of departments full of people, they have people who run a lot of departments. For example, the high school principal is the princ...
Minnesota - Local Panel of Administrators: “Our Digital Transition”
For many of our attendees, it’s their favorite part of our digital transition discussion events. This local panel of educators features the region’s (and often the nation’s) brightest and best e...
Finding the Mix, Modern Curriculum That Meets the Challenges of All Learning Models for All Learners
In this Hybrid Learning Discussion, Paul Henn, Director of Learning Services at New Ulm Public Schools addresses Finding the Mix, Modern Curriculum That Meets the Challenges of All Learning Mod...
Minnesota - Solve Your Top Three Digital Learning Challenges: Access, Engagement, and Rostering
The Learning Counsel created our Lunch and Learn series as a way to introduce companies, products and services that America’s school districts and independent schools need to be familiar with. I...
Minnesota - Everything Changed: “Using Space & Time Today and Hybrid Logistics Best Practices”
Public education is changing rapidly, beginning with who is really attending public schooling. Even before the pandemic, 27 percent of school-aged children did not attend traditional public educ...
Innovating to Keep Schools Open During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Not every school district in America closed their doors and went remote for an extended period of time. In fact, Muskego-Norway Schools opened this past Fall, and given the opportunity to attend...
Minnesota - Motivation Discussion with Featured Educator
Dr. Joe Sanfelippo is the Superintendent at the Fall Creek School District. In this Featured Educator Open Discussion, Sanfelippo talks about what leaders can do to amplify voices and everything...
Successful Planning and Implementation of a K-12 Digital Learning Environment
In the first part of our video, you’ll meet Tim Beekman, President and Co-Founder at SAFARI Montage, a highly recommended resource referred to you by the Learning Counsel. According to Beekman, ...
Northeast - Local Panel of Administrators: “Our Digital Transition”
In what is certainly one of the most popular segments of our digital transition events, we bring a local panel of administrators together for a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred discussion about the...
Midwest - Educator Session on the Digital Learning Experience
Like many of us, COVID hit Ivy Nelson, Education Technology Manager at the Belton School District #124, with very little warning. According to Nelson, “We went on a spring break and we never cam...
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. ...
Midwest - Local Panel of Administrators: “Our Digital Transition”
For many of our attendees, it’s their favorite part of our digital transition discussion events. This local panel of educators features the region’s (and often the nation’s) brightest and best e...
Leading Through the Pandemic
You can learn a lot from your mistakes. In this hybrid learning discussion, you’ll learn about the mistakes one district made, and the wonderful lessons learned. According to Samantha Duchsche...
Midwest - Give Teachers and Administrators the Ability to Track Student Engagement
One of the wonderful things about our Lunch and Learn presentations is that they give the Learning Counsel the opportunity to share information about products that are making a difference to Ame...
Midwest - Everything Changed: “Using Space & Time Today and Hybrid Logistics Best Practices”
According to LeiLani Cauthen, CEO & Publisher of the Learning Counsel News Media & Research, “The new normal isn't going to be normal, is what most leaders are saying. And they're going ...
SEL: Empowering Students & Staff to Lead Balanced, Confident Lives
If you wanted to write a book, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better title than “Social Emotional Learning in Blue Valley.” But that is the name of this presentation, featuring Brad Moser, Dire...
Our Adventures in Learning
It’s been quite a journey for the Fort Zumwalt School District R-II in Missouri. In fact, According to Nick Cusumano, Director of Instructional Technology, it has been an adventure. “You might h...
Motivation and a Digital Learning Focus
Kansas City is known for its Barbecue. And a really great steak. And Learning with a digital focus? In this Educator Open Discussion, the gang from Kansas City Public Schools bring you their...
Digital Learning Experience: Denver Public Schools
Lisa Lund is the Director of Educational Technology and Library Services at Denver Public Schools. In the 12 months since the pandemic shuttered schools, the folks at Denver Public Schools have ...
South Carolina Department of Education is Providing Students and Educators with Integrated Digital Learning Solutions
In a very forward-thinking move, the state of South Carolina, with help from SAFARI Montage, is providing students and educators with centralized, integrated digital learning solutions. Accordi...
Co Lunch & Learn: Achieve3000
One of the wonderful things about our Lunch and Learn presentations is that they give the Learning Counsel the opportunity to share information about products that are making a difference to Ame...
CO - New Model of Instructional Design and Dictionary Definitions Workshop
In the first part of our video, Learning Counsel CEO and Publisher LeiLani Cauthen shares some very revealing data from a recent national survey. According to Cauthen, “This was the January stud...
CO - Local Panel of Administrators - Our Digital Transition
For many of our attendees, it’s their favorite part of our digital transition discussion events. The local panel of educators features the region’s (and often the nation’s) brightest and best ed...
Planning for All to Flourish
There’s a lot to learn from the gang at Westminster Public Schools in Colorado. For the past 12 years, the district has been operating on a competency-based model, from pre-K to 12, and has been...
CO - Give Teachers and Administrators the Ability to Track Student Engagement
One of the great benefits of the Lunch and Learn presentation is it gives the Learning Counsel the ability to share and recommend educational products and services that your school or district m...
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...
CO - Everything Changed: “Using Space & Time Today and Hybrid Logistics Best Practices”
According to LeiLani Cauthen, CEO & Publisher at Learning Counsel News Media & Research, “The real future in terms of transition is the intersection with teachers at precision points. So...
Creating Equity through Opportunity with Access
The Harrison School District is launching an eLearning School next year, and putting it together from scratch is a fascinating process. According to David Jarboe, Executive Director of Technolog...
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
