Featured Articles
Timing is Everything
I read a piece in one of the weekly education publications; a superintendent had been quoted warning of the funding cliff coming in two years. This supe seemed to be making the best of it, not s...
Charles Sosnik
Matters of Principal: Supporting Staff
In our previous column, The Pillars of Principalship , we stressed the importance of establishing foundational pieces that will provide the underlying support and structure for all stakehol...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
Can Brain Fitness be Education’s Moon Shot?
During global Brain Awareness Week, some seven years ago in March 2015, The Kennedy Forum convened experts at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, MA to consider perspectives and review (then) ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
The Problem with Education’s Problems: (Part 3) Achievement Loss
Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. In part one, we addressed the teacher shortage and found that it ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Maximizing Student Engagement in Virtual and Blended Learning through Relationship Building
Education is an ever-changing and adapting trade that has educators constantly evolving to the conditions around us. Like the banded snails that continue to transform their colors to adapt to th...
Colleen Robinson
Intentionality Builds Trust with Students
One of our chief American ideals is self-reliance, as Ralph Waldo Emerson discussed in his famous essay. The great author encourages us to be fully ourselves, trusting our own instincts. Howev...
Tamara Fyke
4 Tips for Supporting Students' Mental Health in an MTSS Framework
Educators are becoming increasingly concerned about their students’ mental health and well-being. Research has shown that isolation and loneliness were often associated with psychological sympto...
Essie Sutton
New Teachers Teaching New Readers? Follow Five Facets of Structured Literacy
In the beginning… Back-to-school jitters are real, for teachers and students. Every fall I think of teachers who are doing new things. Teachers all over the country are starting their first ...
Diana Phillips
The Problem with Education’s Problems: (Part 2) Still Losing Students
Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. As stated in the first article, if the problem that is a...
LeiLani Cauthen
Classroom Communication Strategy: A Guide for Modern Classrooms
While many of us will have grown up with a lot of different teaching styles, both at school and depicted on television, it’s one thing to see other people teach, and another thing entirely to un...
John Allen
Is Your Monitoring Software Putting Your Students’ Privacy at Risk?
As kids go back to school, the last thing they should have to worry about is whether or not their schools are breaching their privacy. But this school year, students, parents, and educators ne...
Rob Shavell
The Science of Reading and the Science of Learning
Education is moving from being based on folklore to being grounded in science at an ever-faster pace. The sciences that are playing a greater role encompass both “traditional” education research...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
The Problem with Education’s Problems - Part 1 – The Teacher Shortage
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approa...
LeiLani Cauthen
Matters of Principal: The Pillars of Principalship
Editor’s Note: This new monthly column, Matters of Principal, will address key issues that school leaders will confront over the next ten months. The focus of these monthly columns will pa...
Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay
5 Silver Linings in Education After the Pandemic
School is back in session for the 2022-2023 school year, and we are about to embark on a new journey. For most students and teachers, it’s been two long years of transitions, significant cha...
Robyn D. Shulman
Is it Too Little: Or Too Late?
Tick Toc. Approximately 13,800 district superintendents are staring down the barrel of a September 30 deadline. That’s the date that all those ESSER funds must be committed. Here it is, Sept...
Charles Sosnik
Addressing the Impact of the Pandemic’s Lingering Learning Gap
Schools continue to explore new ways to address the impact of COVID-19 on our learners. As leadership teams around the country consider the most effective options to help close the learning gap ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
How Do You Spell Relief?
Sometimes, you just need to let it all go. I’m not suggesting that you give up. I’m just saying that when the stress builds to a boiling point, you stop, take a breath, and allow the stress to...
Charles Sosnik
Have You Seen My $130 Billion?
Okay. I am officially in the Twilight Zone. For the life of me, I don’t understand why schools aren’t going crazy over the $130 Billion (+) still left to be spent from the various stimuli fund...
Charles Sosnik
School and District Leaders: Practice Compassionate and Authentic Leadership (on Yourself)
We leaders are under tremendous pressure, not only to do the work of the organization but also to care for those who do the work alongside us. For that reason, our days are long, and the task li...
Tamara Fyke
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
