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Live @ ISTE – K-12 Computer Sciences

LeiLani Cauthen interviews Dr. Whitney Dove, CEO, Ellipsis Education and Sena Hineline, VP of Product and Operations about their fully online digital curriculum for K-12 Computer Science in th...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – New Digital Equity Module & AI Management for Classrooms

These Edtech Heroes were at ISTE promoting their new classroom management user interface and talking about a new module for digital equity. LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News chatted w...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – Digital Paint by Numbers and Hands-on Student Puzzles

Meet a way to create engagement with students co-working on digital puzzles to find the answer in the image!  Also, hands-on sticker-puzzles.   LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News visit...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – Helping Schools Dream the Right Edtech

Go ahead, dream about what you really want for edtech.  At ISTE, LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel chatted with Olivia Lara-Gresty, Sales Associate at Magic EdTech about their tech service...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – Bringing Order to School Communications

Today’s parents are quite use to constant texting and communications with their families and have huge expectations of frequent communications with the schools where their children are enrolled...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – Real Help with Teacher Shortage

Learning Counsel’s LeiLani Cauthen interviewed Rick Perkins, Vice President, Innovative Instructional Models at Stride Learning Solutions at ISTE.   “We’re at a crossroads in education, a te...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – An IWB from Classin with Space for Everything

LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News stopped to interview Ted Mo Chen, the VP Globalization at Classin, a new Interactive Whiteboard company at ISTE. This is not your grandfathers IWB.  ...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – Causing Connectedness…and Perpetual Digital Licensing

Listen in as LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel meets with John Costilla, Chief Mktg & Innovation Officer, at Capstone. The biggest news here is that Capstone solutions can provide a “per...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – Even for the Smallest Schools

Often overlooked by school leaders, help desks and workflow are a critical part of smooth-running operations.  LeiLani Cauthen met with Mark Horne, Chief Revenue Officer at Incident IQ at ISTE...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – Age-Appropriate Headsets & Ergonomic Pens

Does your school pay attention to headsets being used in schools?   A quick visit with Madelaine Mortimore, Global Education & Research Lead of Logitech by Learning Counsel’s LeiLani Cau...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – New Digital Strategies at Renaissance

LeiLani Cauthen of Learning Counsel News chatted with Gene Kerns, the Chief Academic Officer of Renaissance.  Kerns first mentions that Renaissance has had a lot of growth, some eight acquisit...

Doug Cauthen

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Live @ ISTE – School Robot Guides

Imagine if you did change the logistics of your learning delivery and suddenly students were on self-paced paths just like the vision of Hybrid Logistics .  This means a disaggregation of w...

Doug Cauthen

Perspective

Students are Education’s Most Under-Utilized Asset

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats In education, almost everything changes. Almost. Technology changes. 30,000 years...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

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From the Librarian: Students Reading Habits Continue to Change

Digital titles and ebooks often complement traditional, paperback books, but the COVID-19 pandemic flipped things upside down in education. Like its impact on most things in our lives, it pus...

Stacy Cameron

Thoughts

New Strategies to Reverse Declining Math Scores

On June 21st, the U.S. Department of Education released the latest findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trends assessment of math performance among...

Ben Grimley

Perspective

Cybersecurity for K-12: What Are the Risks and Mitigation Strategies?

All educators hold a huge responsibility in identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks. Many people wrongly assume that cybersecurity falls solely under the watchful gaze of the technolog...

Charlie Sander

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What America Needs to Tackle the Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Guide to MTSS In-School Mental Health Services, Tier 2

Editor’s Note: This is the third of a four-part series on the student mental health crisis and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for in-school mental health resources. An overview of t...

Duncan Young and Jerry Barone

Ideas

5 Reasons Why Ebooks Are Powerful for ELL Learners

When I taught ESL at the elementary and middle school level, I noticed a pattern forming that took place quite often when new students arrived in my classroom. The pattern was almost a given ...

Robyn D. Shulman, M.Ed.

Perspective

3 Ways AI Can Help You Achieve Your L&D Goals

We’ve heard plenty about how AI is disrupting education: 30 percent of college students report using ChatGPT for written assignments . Khan Academy is testing out AI “tutors.” Schools are ...

John Blackmon

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Start Optimizing Your Joy and Success with the “Layer Cake” Method

We all want to be both successful and happy, but most of us struggle with finding the delicate balance between joy and growth. It often seems that focusing on one aspect comes at the expense ...

Katerina Lengold


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...