Featured Articles

Thoughts

Empowering K-12 Students Through Strategic Technological Integration

In an increasingly digital world, preparing students to thrive in the future workforce is a priority that schools can no longer afford to sideline. The integration of technology into the clas...

Adam Sandman

Innovation

The Crossroads of AI vs. Human Teaching

Dear Everyone in Education, I’m boldly going to just ask for your help. I know I’m not the only one who thinks we will always need human teachers in K12 learning. Yet some AI experts think th...

LeiLani Cauthen

Perspective

Why Supplemental Educational Resources Are Critical to Educational Success

In the post-pandemic landscape of education, where the needs of learners are as diverse as the tools available to teach them, the importance of supplemental educational resources cannot be ov...

Lance Rougeux

Ideas

Back to School Anxiety

Kids are starting to go back to school across the country, and it’s sparking anxiety for kids and parents. Here are some key tips for how families can ease back-to-school anxiety this year. ...

Stacy Thiry

Research

Developing the Human Co-Intelligences to Balance AI

Learning Counsel research shows a marked need to advocate for schools developing all nine human intelligences instead of focusing largely on just two: mathematical-logical and linguistic. ...

LC Staff

Ideas

Maximizing Early-Year Math: How Ka’umana Elementary School Has Accelerated Math Learning

Like most states, Hawaii has experienced significant challenges in recovering from the loss of instructional time during COVID-19. The results from state testing in 2022-23 indicated that 4...

Akemi Faria

Thoughts

Examining Learning Theories through the Science of Learning

Ever since human beings started passing down knowledge, we have had to make assumptions about how learning happens and how to teach so that learning occurs. And it must have been obvious from...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Share to Care

Banishing Failure with Personalized and Project-Based Learning

What school and teacher is not trying to banish learning failure? Well, when I spoke to Glen Taylor, the Co-CEO of Centric Learning, a former educator and passionate change-agent, I was st...

LeiLani Cauthen

Perspective

Think Educators Can Only Manage Classrooms and Not Companies? Think Again!

As much progress as we’re making in so many ways as a populace and a planet, there are still some outdated assumptions that underlie any culture and shape a society’s mindset. Here in our cou...

Michael Kaufman

Thoughts

Two Years after the Pandemic, Our Students are Still MIA

Back in the 70s, as a result of the Vietnam War, we had hundreds (and possibly thousands) of our soldiers that were Missing in Action. I remember those days well. In fact, I wore a POW/MIA br...

Charlie Warhaftig

Research

Report: The Case for Systemic AI Literacy

This past January, I conducted a survey of high school students (the “students,” or “future workforce”) so I could learn more of what their self-aware level of AI proficiency is; how they fee...

Angelo Biasi

Ideas

Making Science of Reading Stick: 7 Lessons for Transforming K-12 Literacy

I started my career as a special education teacher in the 1980s and taught students how to read using science-of-reading concepts—although we didn’t refer to it in that way back then. When I ...

Janine Walker-Caffrey

Perspective

AI Literacy: The Newest 21st Century Competency

In a world where the only constant is change, education and workforce development must not only keep pace but anticipate and lead into the future with clear intent. This sentiment has never ...

Angelo Biasi

Ideas

Exploring Assistive Technologies for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

The education sector is seeing a growing need and demand for assistive technologies in learning to accommodate students with disabilities. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students are a major gro...

Ruby Doherty

Innovation

What Rapid Sharing Made Seriously Easy in Your Classroom Will Do to Bolster Human Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence

It’s about time. I’ve been longing for this. What was it about the early days of digitally sharing via screens that was soooo much harder than just whipping out a goose-necked overhead an...

LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher

Tactics

Schools, get Control of your Narrative with a Unified Communications Platform

District-related news and updates can quickly turn into games of telephone if you let them. Even a minor event can set the rumor mill spinning out of control, and a major one can really get t...

Dr. Mike McGown

Perspective

How Strong Libraries Build Strong Schools

When it comes to building strong literacy skills, school leaders often overlook one fundamental element: strong libraries. I confess I was once that type of school leader. I undervalued lib...

Dr. Mike Daria

Research

The Future of K12 Education, so you can Prepare for It: Public Education is Set to Lose 16 Million Enrollments by 2030

Thousands of data points go into how models can be built to make any sort of prediction. Learning Counsel, as a media and research organization, has a ten-year history of predicting how the threa...

LC Staff

Ideas

The Ripple Effect of Good Mentoring

As a former mentor, I understand the impact that quality mentoring can have not only on new teachers but the whole school community. The research on teacher retention and working conditions (s...

Brooke Will

Perspective

Understanding Cognitive Processing Speeds on Life’s Learning’s Highway

Cognitive processing speed (or simply processing speed) is the speed at which we can take in information and respond. Processing speed varies among individuals just like other cognitive skills ....

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark


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...