Featured Articles

Ideas

Best Practices for AI Upskilling: Four Culture Building Strategies

As AI continues to grow in acceptance and use in the workplace the need for AI upskilling has become essential for employers who want to leverage the power of these new and exciting tools. Ho...

Marc Booker, Ph.D.

Innovation

Breaking the By-Age Whole Group Pattern with AI Calendaring

We need you to contact us if you agree that a solution mentioned in this article should be explored. When we say, “breaking the by-age whole groupings,” you probably think of self-paced onli...

Learning Counsel

Thoughts

Mental Health: It’s a Cognitive Thing

Student (and teacher) mental health and wellbeing is a subject that has come to dominate education discussions. And for good reason. Wellbeing is a state that is currently elusive for both stud...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Perspective

Dear Educators: As You Advocate for Students in 2025, Don’t Forget to Advocate for Yourself

Are you the teacher who refuses to give up until your student masters a tricky concept? In 2025, the world needs your dedication more than ever, but I’m here to remind you: while you fight fo...

Michael Kaufman

Thoughts

The Darker Side of AI and a Way Forward: Addressing CSAM and Explicit Content in Education

Technology has undoubtedly revolutionized education, from the introduction of the internet and online learning to social media and video platforms like YouTube to educational apps. Today, t...

Yasmin London

Innovation

Building the Matrix of Teaching and Tutoring

Eighty-seven percent of teachers are overwhelmed with the number of expectations on their practice. Teaching to mixed ability classes where thirty to forty percent of the students are behind,...

LeiLani Cauthen

Innovation

AI and the Edtech Stack: Trendsetters at Instructure Discuss the Future

AI is in every conversation with K12 leaders and the edtech industry, but it’s not everything, and it may even be a distraction unless it’s positioned alongside the order-bringing framework s...

LeiLani Cauthen

Thoughts

Time to Rethink Science Education

My name is Sheldon Margulies. I am a retired board-certified neurologist who has taught over 2500 medical students and residents at the University of Alabama and University of Maryland. I als...

Sheldon Margulies

Ideas

Empowering Young Minds: A STEAM Success Story

When we decided to launch a STEAM program at our preK-8 school, I spent more than a year researching, visiting and speaking with educators from dozens of schools across the country. I did an ...

Paul Smith

Ideas

How Nonprofits Can Benefit from the Sports Team Effect

Nonprofit organizations and sports teams might seem worlds apart at first glance, but beneath the surface lies a shared set of challenges: resource constraints, the need to foster teamwork, t...

Brian Williamson, Ph.D.

Thoughts

Empowering Students to Solve Global Challenges: A New Approach to Math Education

As a former teacher, I’ve witnessed firsthand the evolving landscape of education and the urgent need for change. Early in my teaching career, I realized that our traditional approach fell sh...

Jason Mendenhall

Ideas

Five Ways to Makeover School Libraries and Support Modern Learning

School libraries have long been seen as quiet sanctuaries filled with dusty books and hushed voices–sometimes unstimulating and sleepy spaces where students go to read, study, and find inform...

Lee Alatorre, Linda Crear, Antje Miller, and Mary Puleo

Perspective

Time for a Winter Break Self-Check

With Winter Break fast approaching, let’s check in…on you. How are you feeling? Not sure. Here’s a strategy I use with my students in order to get a pulse on where their heads and hearts are:...

Tamara Fyke

Ideas

Design Tips for New Elementary School Media Center Spaces

As part of our mission to bring more instructional technology into the classroom, we’ve been exploring multimodal literacy experiences for elementary students. The effort is part of a statewi...

Amy Zock

Ideas

Catalyzing Education Through Early Adoption of Cutting-Edge Technologies

In a world where technology drives progress, early adoption in K-12 education is not just about staying ahead—it’s about democratizing access to knowledge and opportunities for all students, ...

Adam Sandman

Perspective

Is AI Literacy the Next Must-Have Skill for Higher Education Leaders?

With artificial intelligence transforming sectors worldwide, higher education is no exception. AI technologies are reshaping how students learn, how teachers teach, and how schools operate. T...

Zach Varga

Perspective

Five Things Every Student Should Know at Age 5, 10 and 15

Parents often worry about whether they’re doing enough to make sure their kids are ready for the future. “With all the conflicting information out there, it’s easy to get caught up in wonderi...

Legacy Online School

Thoughts

Changing Mindsets: The Benefits of Compliance for EdTechs

The education sector is increasingly relying on tech-enabled tools to enhance learning outcomes: a LearnPlatform report showed that school systems used 8% more tech tools than last year. As...

Mike DeCock

Ideas

From Crisis to Consistency: How Schools Can Sustain Self-Care Initiatives Year-Round

During my career as a school counselor, I’ve experienced numerous crises firsthand. I’ve counseled students after a school shooting and after the deaths of their peers in accidents and by sui...

Brandy Samuell

Thoughts

Creating Lasting Self-Care Habits for Students in the Digital Age

Technology has transformed how we live, learn, work, and interact with others. For students, it has opened up a world of information and empowered them to take control of their education. But...

Andy Myers


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...