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How Technology will Alter the Teaching Profession: The roles will change, but not their importance

Everything changes. And Technology changes everything. In education like everywhere else, the way that products are delivered (in this case, learning) is undergoing a seismic shift. Learning C...

LeiLani Cauthen

Ideas

Teacher to Teacher: Simple Advice for Going Virtual

Any way you tackle it, teaching is a tricky process that takes serious planning, time, consideration, and knowledge. When you add in a pandemic, even confident teachers face the uneasiness of bl...

Melissa Saphos

Perspective

Teachers Can Transform Education if We Reinvent Professional Learning

When I propose that it’s possible for teachers to transform education, usually I get pushback like this: “Teachers aren’t known as change agents; they complain but remain compliant even while di...

Thom Markham

Perspective

In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

Are you a teacher? If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, discipliner, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst?  Maybe you a...

LeiLani Cauthen

Perspective

Can Tech Fill the Gaping Hole Left by Teacher Exodus?

America, we have a problem.

Charles Sosnik

Share to Care

Why a 21st Century Teacher Isn’t Just a “Guide on the Side”

The great fiction that a teacher today has become a “guide on the side” is now hardwired into nearly every conversation about the future of teaching and learning. Teachers don’t deliver informat...

Thom Markham

People

Do Right for Education with Lifelong Partnerships

I talked with Edmentum President and CEO Jamie Candee shortly after she was honored by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal as one of the top women in business. The Journal wrote ; “In t...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Event News

Learning Counsel Kicks Off 2018 Digital Transition Discussions-San Antonio, TX

Hot Talk in San Antonio

Troy Starr, Learning Counsel Writer

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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...