Featured Articles
Weekly NewsBriefs 2/12/24 - 2/18/24
California adding apprenticeships to teacher recruitment toolbox – By Diana Lambert, EdSource Apprenticeships are being added to the long list of initiatives California has undertaken ...
Doug Cauthen
Weekly NewsBriefs 3/4/24 - 3/10/24
More Arkansas school districts hiring unlicensed teachers to cope with staff shortage – By Antionette Grajeda, Arkansas Advocate One in 12 educators working in Arkansas public schools ...
Doug Cauthen
Weekly NewsBriefs 4/8/24 - 4/14/24
Michigan schools have more teachers, fewer students. Are layoffs coming? – By Isabel Lohman, Bridge Michigan Michigan school districts may need to lay off or otherwise cut more than 5,...
Doug Cauthen
Project Tomorrow to Host "Speak Up for America's Teachers," Voicing Key Input on Education Issues
During “Speak Up Day for America’s Teachers” on May 10, a panel of national school district leaders and teachers will reflect on two decades of survey findings to inform and influence the future of K-12 education
Doug Cauthen
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. ...
The LC Staff
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...
The LC Staff
5 Essential Screen Sharing Tips for Teachers
It's easy to forget that when you're sharing your screen with your online class, your students will see EVERYTHING that you're sharing. And we mean everything. Your past search history, email or...
James Sanders
10 New Year's Resolutions for Teachers that You Can Still Do
As a teacher, your New Year’s resolutions involve more than the average person. You're running a classroom, keeping up with administrative policies, navigating parents, and trying to attend to y...
James Sanders
5 Ways to Develop Teacher Agency and Advance Student Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t only exposed the vast gap in educational equity for students, it has revealed gaps for teachers as well. Though district leaders are working diligently to get the te...
Katherine E. Bihr, Ed.D. & Susanne H. Thompson
Navigating the New Normal: A Guide for Our At-Risk 50-and-Up Educators
As schools gradually reopen, students, teachers and staff are all vulnerable to the lasting effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes how 29 ...
Carol Henry
Virtual Classroom 2.0 12 Tips for the Virtual Teacher
In this article, we’ll provide you quick and effective ways to have the right setup, tools, techniques to increase your effectiveness with students, parents, and administrators. For administrato...
Bob Riefstahl
For the Educator-Entrepreneur in the New Year
Some words of advice for those of you who are working a side hustle or starting a new business:
Charles Sosnik
Curriculum Associates CEO Rob Waldron: Reinforcing Quality Work
Rob Waldron joined Curriculum Associates in 2008, bringing leadership experience from both for-profit and nonprofit education worlds. He runs the company with a long-term focus, upholding the fo...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Helping Teachers Evaluate Student Progress
Christine Willig, a 25-year K-12 industry veteran, became CEO of Illuminate Education following a five-way merger in July 2018. The merger combined assessment and data platforms (Illuminate Ed...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Disruption: The Sum of the Effect
Here is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of The Consumerization of Learning . "What’s the sum of all this semi-invisible disruptive force known generally as the technology transition running ov...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Helping Education Differentiate Student Learning Abilities
Meeting and discussing individualized instruction with Mindprint Learning founder and CEO Nancy Weinstein articulated the importance of discovering how students learn. She supported my interest ...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
More Technology Equals More Learning, Right?
As I visit schools and districts, one thing consistently stands out: people like to talk about technology. A lot. Conversations about their digital conversion and the number of Chromebooks, iPad...
Dr. Hope Dugan
Learning Counsel Discusses EdTech Challenges and Solutions with Education Leaders
Learning Counsel held our 3 rd Digital Transition Discussion of the year in Charlotte, NC on February 1 st , 2018. At the event education executives listened to presentations from leaders in th...
Troy Starr, Learning Counsel Writer
Online Teaching Jobs Growing
Online schools are reporting a steady increase of K-12 students in the last decade according to National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). More families and students consider their digit...
Kenna McHugh, Staff Writer
Teachers Working From Home In Their Pajamas?
Telecommuting is nothing new in corporate America. For some professions, it is even becoming commonplace. The Sales Rep who lives in Texas, but has their corporate offices in California. But for...
Kenna McHugh, Staff Writer
5 Best Practices for Developing Personalized PD for Teachers
Tactics that will help leaders deliver instruction that engages and inspires
Carrie Drake
Are you still going to prefer OER? The $2.28 Billion Loss to Publishers & the Future – Part 1
This question of preferring Open Education Resources (OER) is one for everyone in education to ask. Free is great, but is it really free? I recently asked this of the new CEO of ISTE, Richar...
LeiLani Cauthen, CEO & Publisher
San Diego Leadership Defines Transformation
Teachers are swamped; digital curriculum implementation hot topic in discussion meeting
Cebron Walker, Editor-in-Chief
AI in Language Learning: Humans Still Hold the Key
Language learning is experiencing a revolution. Large language models (LLMs) and AI-powered apps are sprouting like digital mushrooms, promising fluency with just a few swipes and clicks. And the...
Dan Berges
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
