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Matters of Principal: Supporting Staff

In our previous column, The Pillars of Principalship , we stressed the importance of establishing foundational pieces that will provide the underlying support and structure for all stakehol...

Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay

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Matters of Principal: The Pillars of Principalship

Editor’s Note: This new monthly column, Matters of Principal, will address key issues that school leaders will confront over the next ten months.  The focus of these monthly columns will pa...

Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay

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Matters of Principal: Resolving Conflict (Part 1)

Conflict is an inevitable part of daily life, and it is certainly an inevitable part of school life. Despite having firmly embedded routines and daily practices, dedicated staff, supportive p...

Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay

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Matters of Principal: Resolving Conflict - Part 2

As discussed in last month’s article, conflict is an inevitable part of school life. While astute leadership can certainly prevent many contentious issues from percolating, there always will...

Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay

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Matters of Principal: Building Your Staff

This is the time of the school year when principals do their best to meet two very important, and very different, mandates: ensure a successful conclusion to the current school year and begi...

Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay

Featured Papers

The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.

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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...