Featured Articles
Schools Cannot Find Enough Substitute Teachers
Being a substitute teacher in a K-12 school is one of the most difficult jobs in education. Other than low pay like most educators, most substitutes are only paid for the days they work, if they...
Franklin Schargel
Trauma-Afflicted Students Learning to Re-Author Their Own Narratives
A compelling partnership in California’s Bay Area is providing music-supported therapeutic learning and empowerment to students at the Alameda County Juvenile Hall. Thanks to the California Arts...
John Barnett
Academic Achievement Can Open So Many Doors
To perhaps risk the ire of educators across the nation, we should ask, ‘Is academic performance really important? And if so, why?’ On its surface, these may seem like absurd questions for anyone...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
This Year, I am Thankful for…
It has become something of a tradition each year around Thanksgiving to write a piece about being grateful – what I am thankful for each year. This year I have so much for which to be thankful...
Charles Sosnik
High Schools & Cybersecurity
Whatever the motivation, cybersecurity threats have now become pervasive. They continue to upend every facet of the digital realm. The sad thing is that no institution, organization, or individu...
Ben Hartwig
How EdTech Supports Social and Emotional Learning
Perhaps at a quick glance, educational technologies and SEL, short for Social and Emotional Learning , don’t mesh together. EdTech solutions are often associated with teaching students hard ski...
Krista-Lotta Ojanen
Helping Students Regain Lost Ground by Focusing on Essential Standards
All standards are important, but this year, it’s more critical than ever to identify and emphasize those that are key to future learning.
Dave Gibbons
Social Media and Social Emotional Learning
When I lead professional development sessions for Love In A Big World , I always ask educators what is influencing the way our students see the world. Regardless of the grade level, the teacher...
Tamara Fyke
Five Ways Our Students Benefited from Online Learning
Our small Catholic high school was able to maintain good continuity of learning and connection with its domestic and international students during the global pandemic.
Jo Cipriano
Do Schools Actually Know Their Customers?
A recent report from LearnPlatform shows a 40 percent increase in average products accessed by US school districts over the past year; from 1,033 in 2020 to 1,449 in 2021. Clearly, schools are w...
James Stoffer
Effective Tutoring: Empowering Students Through Productive Struggle
To offset lost educational opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and educators are seeking new ways to expand access to learning and address students’ social-emotional and academic...
Dr. Lynn Kepp
The Science of Reading: 5 Steps to Literacy Success for All Students
I’m a native Costa Rican who moved to the United States as a foreign exchange student when I was 20. I know what it feels like to learn a second language—to be an English language learner (ELL),...
Dr. Ana Gabriela Bell Jimenez
Empower the Learner – Building the Skills of Agency and Self-Advocacy using the UDL Lens
A core objective of personalized, competency-based schools that is described in the Teaching and Design Principle “Activate Student Agency and Ownership,” is to cultivate agency, “the ability t...
Kathleen McClaskey
Why Some Reading Intervention Programs Don’t Help Striving Readers Learn Grammar
What we know about learning (what we’ve known at least since the National Research Council’s, How People Learn ) is that when information is contextualized, it is understood and remembered be...
Andrew Ordover
Districts Should Find New Ways to Assess Learning
At this point last year, we hoped we'd be on the other side of COVID-19. Instead, the combination of the Delta variant and back-to-school means educators and administrators are finding themselve...
Tracy Weeks
Cognitive Training: Questions Frequently Asked by Skeptics
There continues to be controversy regarding cognitive training (sometimes called brain training) programs, and there continue to be many skeptics. Skepticism is generally a healthy attitude, p...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Using Cultural Appreciation to Promote SEL in K-12
How we’re using our social-emotional learning curriculum to put relationships into focus, create strong bonds with students, and gauge what’s reall y going on in the classroom. With a stude...
Jonathan Powell
Digital Identity is the New Foundation of K-12 Learning Environments
With a global pandemic ongoing and “hybrid” learning normalized, K-12 superintendents are under pressure to invest in educational technology (EdTech). The Learning Counsel found that in 2020, sp...
Jim Harold
Passing Heroes and Thoughts for a New Generation
My heroes have always been cowboys And they still are, it seems Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams --Willie Nelson America lost a h...
Charles Sosnik
Good Day, Good Evening and Good Night
A lot is being written about our youngsters not getting enough sleep, particularly our high school students. In fact, many high schools have raised the time for their opening bells, hoping to gi...
Betsy Hill & 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
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
