Featured Articles
Login Syncing: Better Together with Digital Identity Management
Login Syncing: Better Together with Digital Identity Management As K-12 continues its journey down the path of digital transformation, one top priority of many medium to large districts is e...
Gavin McKelvey
Hands-on Math with Howie: Candy Calculations
Welcome to the first in a series of posts featuring fun, hands-on math projects you can do with your elementary math students. Each of these projects can be done with a minimum of fuss and expen...
Howie Templer
Neuroscience, the Pandemic and the U.S. Education System
“We stand on the threshold of important new advances in neuroscience that will yield increased understanding of brain functioning and the way we learn. How we use this new information to teach...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Head in the Cloud? Overcoming the Great Resignation through Technological Investment in Education
According to November Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from September 2020 to September 2021, the education sector experienced about 3.3 million employee resignations. These numb...
Brandy Keller
In Math Class, Rigor = Fun
It’s time to get serious about math in school. Math needs to be much more challenging, much more focused, much more rigorous. And that means it’s time we let kids play . Wait… play? What happ...
Peter Meyerhoff, PhD
The New Year and the Fine Art of Complaining
Some people just love to complain. You know them or maybe you are one of them. In an article in the New York Times Opinion section, Samantha Irby claimed, “To complain is to truly be alive.” For...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
School Leaders: Solve Your Big Problems by Listening to These Three People
Editor’s Note: This article first published in 2017. But like the old adage states, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Just so happens, this article is particularly relevant n...
Joe Deaton
Aligning Literacy Curriculum Across the District
A rural district successfully aligned its literacy curriculum across grades and content areas amid a pandemic to improve student growth.
Michelle Robinette
Gamification and Game-Based Learning in EdTech: How to Start Designing a Great Product
There are many ways to start designing a game. You may have your mind set on a cool mechanic , like pinning teams against each other in a fun multiplayer environment. Or you wish to share a c...
Krista-Lotta Ojanen and Saila Juuti
Understanding the skills gap: How to create strategic employee development
There is a growing skills gap within the workplace that, left unaddressed, is at risk of preventing resilient economic growth and limiting companys’ development. Skills gaps can become roadbloc...
Dr. Alan Cabello
Digital Learning Creates Opportunity and Promise for 2022
2021 was filled with challenges and obstacles for education, yet it forced us to take a fresh look at a slow-moving system, forever shifting the way we teach, learn and communicate. Looking ahea...
Jennifer Lee
The Best Holiday Gifts
“Are we watching Polar Express today, Miss?” my students yelled as they ran into my classroom. It was the last day of school before Winter Break, and everything was getting louder as the day pro...
Janis Effner
The Complete Guide to Building a Technological Curriculum
In line with the skyrocketing usage of new technologies in our everyday lives and workplace, the demand for technological skills , both in programming and technology applications, is expected t...
Hugo Aguirre
The Journey BEYOND Interoperability
It's almost 2022, and in your tech stack discussions, interoperability is table stakes and should serve as the very basic starting point for a much larger goal. The goal of EdTech is simple, b...
Chris Rose
EduJedi Leadership Society Celebrates Attainment Level Awards at the Learning Counsel’s 2021 National Gathering
(Sacramento, CA - December 7, 2021) With the pandemic as the backdrop the last two years, two major national surveys showed teachers, school and district leaders have taken major steps in di...
The LC Staff
3 Best Tablets for Kids with Special Needs
Assistive technology has been helping individuals with special needs work around everyday challenges for years now. Many devices have been created to help these individuals lead independent and ...
Luna Gomez
Predictions for EdTech Trends in 2022
What are the next key trends in EdTech? Learning institutions from K-12 schools to colleges and universities will need to implement specialized and specific EdTech solutions to meet the expe...
Allen Drennan
Student Assessment and Evaluation: Measuring Growth Versus Measuring Achievement
Expected growth and assessment are part of all successful teaching plans. The general expectation is that for every year in school students will accumulate a year’s worth of new knowledge, but h...
Janis Effner
CalArts Goes Global with Experimental Pop Collaboration
Emily Evans, Co-Director of the Experimental Pop Program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), is using her ingenuity and expertise to reshape instruction with a global perspective. O...
John Barnette
Confronting Challenges in Online Education
With the dramatic increase in online education over the past two years, many teachers, administrators, and staff are confronting the specific challenges of not only managing a virtual classroom,...
Beau Neal
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
