Featured Articles
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.
Empowering Meaning Makers: Creating Engaged and Future-Ready Students
Across the nation, educators are grappling with a crisis that extends beyond the classroom: declining student engagement and motivation. Chronic absenteeism, behavioral issues, and dwindling ...
Mike Duncan, Ed.D.
Gamification and Education: Growth Mindset Games
When the term “gamification” comes up in the context of education, it is usually introduced as a way to improve student engagement and motivation. Given the dismal state of student engagement...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Is it 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
What AI Will Disrupt (But Never Displace) in Education
Nearly every day in my job as an edtech investor I’m asked this question: Will AI replace teachers? Will the teaching profession go the way of the scribe, made obsolete by AI? Generative AI ...
Jennifer Carolan
Why Civics Education Needs a Makeover
Despite civics education being a mandatory graduation requirement in many states, there is a significant gap in student engagement and understanding. National assessments reveal troubling stati...
Susan Wilkins
Children at Risk: Key Insights on Online Scams and Protecting Mental Health
With online scams becoming more sophisticated, children, often trusting and inexperienced, are increasingly vulnerable to phishing, impersonation, and fraud schemes on the internet. In the U.S....
Kassie McOmber
Five Important Lessons About Trying AI-Powered Classroom Tools That All Educators Should Know
I have had the privilege of serving as an educator in Wisconsin’s Verona Area School District for over 37 years, working closely with the staff, students, parents and community members to tho...
Rita Mortenson
Transforming K-12 Education through Expanded Learning Communities of Practice
Collaboration among district leaders, Expanded Learning advocates, and academics inspire districts to develop programs that improve students’ physical, mental, and social well-being.
Chris Murphy
From AI Readiness to Maturity in K-12
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (Gen AI) technologies has ushered in a new era of possibilities and challenges for the education sector. While these cu...
Pete Just
Bridging Education and Workforce Through AI: Insights from Industry Leaders
As the global workforce landscape continues to evolve, the connection between education and the world of work has never been more critical. According to recent studies, 87% of executives glob...
Angelo Biasi
Turning the Page: Three Science of Reading Transformation Trends for 2025
Finding Common Ground in Uncertain Times As we turn the calendar to 2025, educators nationwide are looking for solid ground amid ongoing debates about teacher professional learning, studen...
Kerri Larkin
Exploring the Impact of AI in Education
The evolution of the education sector has been marked by significant transformations over the years. Historically, education was often limited to traditional classroom settings and face-to-f...
Gavin Cooney
Looking Forward by Looking Backward – The Next 50 Years
There’s nothing better than a 50th high school reunion to inspire contemplation about how different education will be for students in another 50 years. The “B’s”, broadband, books, buildings,...
Ann FLynn
A New Educational Strategy & The Role of EdTech
The breakneck pace of Artificial Intelligence is set to reshape many aspects of our lives. Schools are not immune to these effects. How do we ensure that they do not become relics of the past...
Dan Fitzpatrick
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
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
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
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
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
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
