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Weekly News Brief 4/21-4/27

  Bill would require third graders to meet reading benchmarks – By Kim Chandler, AP News Alabama could become the next state to require third graders to pass a reading benchmark before m...

The LC Staff

For Vendors

New EduJedi

What Does it Mean to Sign the Pact

LeiLani Cauthen

App of the Week

Coaching platform enables teacher PD using teaching videos and online collaboration tools

Formats: Web-based, Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Chrome OS.   Website: www.edthena.com Edthena is a classroom observation platform which makes video-based coaching and p...

The LC Staff

App of the Week

Coaching platform enables teacher PD using teaching videos and online collaboration tools

Formats: Web-based, Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Chrome OS.

Learning Counsel Staff

Industry News

Hoonuit Acquires Whitewater Learning, Launches University Accredited Courses

Hoonuit’s Pathways are now available to educators to receive university credit for personalized course completion

The LC Staff

Industry News

Insight Education Group Awarded Educator Effectiveness Grant from U.S. Department of Education

Insight will use the funding to support networked improvement communities for 47 schools across four states

The LC Staff

Industry News

Summer Institutes for Science and STEM Educators

Being held nationwide, full-day institutes provide educators with hands-on training using data-collection technology

The LC Staff

Industry News

New App Leverages Chromebooks for Video-based Coaching and Professional Learning

With Edthena, device platforms are no longer a barrier to making video-based PD easy

The LC Staff

Industry News

Professional Development Courses for Librarians

Educational Leadership, Digital Citizenship topics headline initial offerings

The LC Staff

Industry News

New Tool to Help Educators and Coaches Identify Specific Trends in Teaching Practices

Edthena creates visualizations to support meaningful, data-driven professional development

The LC Staff

Industry News

District 214 to Host CoSN's "Teaming for Transformation" National Event

An event focused on strategic planning to help districts move to a 1:1 learning environment

The LC Staff

Professional Development

Why Districts Must Support Instructional Coaches in Innovative Ways

In the United States, over 200,000 teachers leave the classroom each year, citing a lack of support and inadequate preparation as two of the main reasons for their exodus. Fortunately, distric...

Joellen Killion

Spotlight

This User Group Takes a Deep Dive into the School User Experience

The Learning Counsel is a research institute and news media hub headquartered in Sacramento. Its membership includes approximately 215,000 superintendents and assistant superintendents, technolo...

Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Editor

Professional Development

Targeting Today’s Teaching Pain Points

Zia Learning Zigs into the Ed-Tech Breach

Cebron Walker, Editor

Event News

Making Tech Work in Teacher’s Hands

Minnesota educators discuss key factors in modern classroom instruction

Learning Counsel Staff

Perspective

Togetherness Builds Transition to Digital

What it takes to make a sustainable shift in the biggest district in Alabama

Cebron Walker, Editor-in-Chief

Share to Care

Beyond the Buzzword: Flipped Learning

Flipping is a technique paired with a mindset change

Aaron Sams and Justin Aglio

Event News

Transitioning to Digital, Sustainably

Ohio Educators Meet to Discussion Digital Challenges and Solutions

Learning Counsel Staff

Research

Digital Curriculum Transition “ROI”

Reviewing a District’s “Return on Instruction” After a Tech Implementation

Cebron Walker, Editor-in-Chief

Tactics

Achieving a Seamless Plug and Play Ecosystem

Making Interoperability Part of the Digital Procurement Process to Support Student-Centered Learning

Cebron Walker, Editor-in-Chief

Event News

Shifting Pedagogy in Orange County, CA

Executives in SoCal Discuss Sustainable Transformation

Learning Counsel Staff

Spotlight

Charting the Path for Digital Transition

The CTO of Summit Public Schools Shares Their Evolution

Cebron Walker, Editor-in-Chief

Event News

Solving Sustainable Digital Transition

N.C. Educators Discuss Empowering Students and Teachers

Learning Counsel Staff

Event News

What’s Hot in Education in 2017

Coding, Making, Personalizing Teacher PD hot topics at TCEA 2017

Cebron Walker, Editor-in-Chief

Share to Care

Shifting the Norms in Classroom Instruction and Getting it Right

How Schools in New Jersey are Fostering Digital Learning & Leadership

Stephany Hesslein

Event News

Palo Alto Educators Talk Systemic Changes for True Transformation

Leadership gets real, collaborates around what it takes to shift from the top down

The LC Staff

Tactics

PBL Professional Development That Actually Works

Two curriculum coordinators share successful PD to help educators shift to digital learning models

Christopher Piehler

Thoughts

Does Your PD Strategy Stink?

Keeping up with the “new normal” for classrooms means a new level of PD for teachers everywhere

Connie Bosley

Ideas

A Blended Approach to Teacher PD

With more and more demands for change, here’s a collaborative approach to professional development that is bringing teachers and administrators up to speed

Christopher Piehler

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...