Featured Articles
What in the World is an Educator to Do?
These are unusual times, to say the least. The two biggest storylines in the school world are the teacher shortage and the student shortage. It seems like they can’t both be true. But they are...
Charles Sosnik
Summer Brain Drain
It’s that time of year to start looking forward to summer break. As much as parents and guardians might not be excited for the change in routine, teachers and students alike both need time to re...
Kristin D. Gigliotti, M.Ed
Take this Quiz before ISTE
Before you attend ISTE this year, or even if you are not going, take the 10-Point Hybrid Logistics Awareness Quiz. The Quiz will provide you your individual score. Find out how the rest of ...
Charles Sosnik
Experience Hybrid Logistics at ISTE
For more than four decades, the ISTE conference has been recognized as one of the world’s largest education events. It’s where educators and education leaders gather to engage in hands-on lear...
Doug Cauthen
Take Another Look at Financial Literacy for Our Youth
Financial Literacy is a subject that is currently little taught, but much needed in our schools. With the advent of digital transactions and the inability of school age children to see the relat...
Christy S. Martin, Ed. D
Hybrid Learning and Lesson Design: 5 Tips for Efficiency
One day students are there. The next, they’re not. This is the year of constant school emails, texts, and calls detailing absences, COVID and quarantine rates, and school building closures. Fo...
Zach Vander Veen
What Does the Metaverse Mean for Education?
The last two years have accelerated the evolution of our digital lives – to the point that life in the digital world and life in the physical world are one in the same. Educators and students me...
Lance Huang
8 Ways We Can Improve Schools Today for A Better Future Tomorrow
Can we change the trajectory of school? Right now, most school districts are trying to develop an effective plan for the ongoing return of students and the continuing lack of teachers. Prepari...
Robyn Shulman
This Is How AI Is Gaining Pace in Corporate Learning
The Education Technology (EdTech) market has been steadily growing for many years. In fact, within the next 5 years the EdTech market is projected to grow by 40% to over $20 billion. Artific...
Stefano Brusoni
Cognitive Skills and Wellbeing: The Relationship
Editor’s Note: This is part one in a three-part series Wellbeing is the word that is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. And for good reason. It is that single, intangible state th...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
How to Build Champions in the Classroom by Optimizing the Mind-Body Connection
We know that athletes who are successful at any level focus on optimizing both their body and their mind. They focus on caring for their bodies with a balanced and nourishing diet, proper hydr...
Nadine Levitt
Find Your Growth Mindset and Build Intelligence
The concept of a “growth mindset” comes from the groundbreaking work of Dr. Carol Dweck , whose research has helped clarify why some people thrive on challenges and why others do not. She found...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Strange Days Indeed, Most Peculiar
Nobody told me there’d be days like these. If you are in administration, you are dealing with some very frightening numbers right now. Last week, Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen wrote an ...
Charles Sosnik
Community Schools: Connected to What Matters
Children do not exist in a vacuum. Community schooling encourages student wellbeing, teacher health and wellbeing, all in place to allow academic achievement and opportunity for students, their...
James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen
1 Million New Teachers Needed in 2022: Welcome to Education’s Great Resignation & Re-Shuffle
Learning Counsel Research estimates that 32 percent of administrators in K12 education have quit or switched jobs within the last 25 months. A good number of those are Superintendency roles. Al...
LeiLani Cauthen
Hey… Let’s Play
A few years ago, I took my youngest son and his friend to Laser Quest . It’s the best laser tag place I know, full of two-story mazes covered in glow-in-the-dark paint. I had intended to sit an...
Tamara Fyke
STEM, STEAM, Make the Dream
Considering the concept of collective effervescence, it is essential that we understand that the low numbers of students graduating with STEM degrees and the high numbers expressing disinterest ...
Christopher Emdin, Ph.D.
The Kids are Alright
“Sometimes, I feel I gotta get away Bells chime, I know I gotta get away And I know if I don't, I'll go out of my mind” --Pete Townshend, The Who If you believe everything you read, th...
Charles Sosnik
Mapping The Future of the Past
My department chair asked if I had ever heard of “mind maps.” Curious, I looked up some examples. The more I looked, the more it showed that this is a remarkable way to connect and unify informa...
Terrence Monroe
The Machines are Good at This
We spend a lot of time in education talking about the promise of technology in the classroom. Terms like “personalized learning” and “AI-driven instruction” and “adaptive learning” become buzzy....
Zach Vander Veen
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
