Featured Articles
Educators are Taking New LEAPS to Find the Right Edtech
Classroom technology adoption is at a tipping point. Fewer educators are asking what new EdTech can be added, and instead are asking what’s the right edtech to add. As the number of 1:1 devic...
Madeleine Mortimore
Now, Every School Can be a Community School: The Nitty Gritty
Part Two: The Nuts and Bolts By definition, the power of Community Schools resides in the local community. It is the identification, structuring and connection of the many assets within ...
Zach Vander Veen
A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing for a Cybersecurity Audit
K-12 school districts put various security measures in place—from anti-malware to documentation—to protect their networks and applications from outside attacks. But what many don’t know is ho...
Charlie Sander
Matters of Principal: Transition Time
The principal’s role is always multi-faceted, but never is a school leader juggling more different, yet equally important, agendas than during this time of year. There are clearly many import...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
Community Schools Update: Now, Every School Can be a Community School
Part One: The Idea I heard this said in a meeting, by a very smart colleague, “Now, every school can be a Community School.” I had never thought of that before, much less spoken it aloud i...
Zach Vander Veen
Challenges and Solutions: Tackling the Mental Health Crisis with Technology
America’s K-12 students are in a precarious position. While fallout from the pandemic and other societal trends have contributed enormously to increased anxiety, depression and stress among s...
Justin Reilly
How AI Interactive Presentation Tools are Revolutionizing the Education Landscape
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword across industries recently. Mainly the newly launched AI powered interactive presentation tools , is noteworthy. This tool is revolutionizi...
Mike Coumans
Instructional Coaching is a Key to Reducing Veteran Teacher Burnout: Here’s Why
Teachers have experienced more anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic than even health care workers and other employees, researchers say . As a result, public school systems are experiencing a...
Jacinto Ramos Jr.
AI EdTech Cracks e-Learning's 'Completion Conundrum,' Strengthens Sector Outcomes
New AI and behavioral science platform solves $1 trillion motivation problem plaguing the e-learning sector
Merilee Kern, MBA
Great EdTech Tools That Can Help Improve High School Learning
High school is an incredibly crucial time wherein students can cultivate their knowledge and pursue great educational outcomes. It is likewise a space that helps prepare them for the academic...
Nicole D. Peabody
School Logistics for New Models
The pictures with this article show the first live modeling of a new logistics and workflow-oriented use of time and space in schools. It was a professional development exercise played in sever...
LeiLani Cauthen
Creating A Disruption Resistant Classroom
Shifting to a student-centered learning model strengthens the classroom environment, supports students and empowers teachers.
Kareem Farah
Most Teachers Now Approve of Students Using ChatGPT, and Nearly All are Using the Program Themselves
There have been some questions, since its launch last November, about whether ChatGPT will have a positive or negative impact on education. To understand teachers’ current attitudes toward t...
Doug Cauthen
We Stand Together
I’m sure you have heard the news of the school shooting that occurred in our hometown of Nashville, TN. Our hearts are broken. And just the other week, my team spoke with a school system who ...
Tamara Fyke
Grading Your School? How do They Rate in the Science of Learning?
A number of state departments of education are working to remove the grading systems for schools that were established in the No Child Left Behind era. The idea behind those systems was tha...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
The Metaverse: The New Education Frontier and Why We Need It
Is it time for educators to rethink curriculum development? Are students ready to take the first steps? Is technology the way forward? The Barnes and Noble report “ Emerging from the pandemi...
Austin Yavorsky
Four Ways to Enhance Your Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking is plainly in decline. Everywhere we look, people are uncritically consuming and spreading information that is distorted, misleading, and sometimes intentionally deceptive. ...
Louis E. Newman
Science of Learning: The Cognitive Principles
Cognitive training (which is also called brain training) involves activities designed specifically to strengthen one or more cognitive skills. Some cognitive training programs focus on indivi...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
What America Needs to Tackle the Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Guide to MTSS In-School Mental Health Services, Tier 1
Editor’s Note: This is the second 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 ...
Duncan Young and Jerry Barone
Matters of Principal: Key Tenets of Principal Leadership
The essence of the principal’s role is a combination of school leader and school manager, and the leadership and management components are far from mutually exclusive. In fact, a strong manag...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
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
