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What Teachers and Students Need to Know about Learner Variability
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What Teachers and Students Need to Know about Learner Variability

Teachers and students have known since the time of Socrates that learners are different from each other, with different perspectives and aptitudes. These days, it may seem as if there is more va...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Cognitive Learning Strategies: Making Learning More Productive and Efficient
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Cognitive Learning Strategies: Making Learning More Productive and Efficient

The term cognitive learning is used to characterize specific aspects or theories of learning and generally implies a view of learning that: Relates to conscious understanding rather than beha...

Betsy Hill & Roger Stark

Achieving Equity: Understanding Each Child’s Cognitive Strengths and Weaknesses
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Achieving Equity: Understanding Each Child’s Cognitive Strengths and Weaknesses

Editor’s Note: This is part two in a five-part series   In our first article in this Achieving Equity series, we suggested that the greatest obstacle to equity that students face in ...

Betsy Hill & Roger Stark

Featured Papers

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

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Addressing Crises in School Absenteeism, Staffing and Privacy: Using a human touch tech solution
Discussing the issues of student absenteeism, staffing and privacy might seem like biting off more than one leader can chew, but they are related from an important perspective: managing transacti...
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...