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Ideas

EdTech Execs Spot Successful Trends

As the educational sector moves into a new era of learning and collaboration, educators are facing new challenges every day. With this shift emerging, collaborative learning tools and innovative...

Rebecca Salem

Perspective

Student Mental Health is a Puzzle: Here’s How to Make the Pieces Fit Together

Where does Social Emotional Learning (SEL) fit in? Through the framework of SEL, students can develop skills in self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal relationships to better prepar...

Kevin Dorsey & Zach Vander Veen

Ideas

Planning for Your Future: Is It Worth Going for a MS Degree? How To Prepare in High School

Whichever stage you're at in your education, a master's degree in science may appeal to you. There are many benefits of studying for a MS (Masters of Science) degree in any subject. However, w...

Justine Melbury

Thoughts

The Energy of Unresolved Difference

I grew up in a family without conflict.  Hahahahahaha. We were all expert at avoiding locking horns. We followed a simple formula: Emotions are dangerous, conflict stirs up emotions,  ipso fact...

Mac Bogert

Share to Care

Creating an Inclusive Virtual Classroom for Distance Learning

A lot has changed over the past 2 years, where virtual and distance learning have become more broadly used and more widely accepted as common learning platforms. Although the information being t...

Emily Henry

Perspective

Embracing an Opportunity to Reimagine Student Mental Health

It’s important to be clear that the mental health of children has been underserved for years—the pandemic did not change that. And, the broad picture of the necessary things that we should do to...

Stephanie Taylor

Ideas

Include Relevant Goals to Ensure an Effective Plan for Remote Learning

One of the many challenges districts are facing as they go back to school this fall is the development of remote and distance learning plans that will allow them to define, measure, and demonstr...

Renae Abboud

Tactics

Understanding the Pedagogy of a Learning Science to Nurture an Inclusive Learning Culture

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a three-part series “How do we create an inclusive learning culture with equity at the center?”   Creating a culture of learning and inclusivity, a non-...

Kathleen McClaskey

Ideas

Courage in the Face of Uncertainty

For some of us, school is just beginning. For others, we have been back at school for over a month. For all, we must agree that this academic year is already not what we had expected. We are sta...

Tamara Fyke

Perspective

What’s Needed in Today’s Pandemic Era: Effective Neuroscience Intervention for Title I Students

First – A History Lesson Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was intended to narrow the educational achievement gap for children from families with low socio-econom...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

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The Plentiful Pitfalls of Personally Identifiable Data

It is hard to overstate the gravity of personally identifiable information as it relates to any and all student and minor populations. By definition, personally identifiable information (PII) is...

Robert Iskander

Thoughts

5 ways to help students stressed by assessment

Adopt formative assessment practices - emphasis on assessment should focus on using data to help students learn

Trenton Goble

Ideas

Four ways to support PBL for Advanced Placement Teachers

More than a million students take Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams every year. These rigorous academic programs can help prepare students for courses in college.  Traditionally, AP cour...

Stanley Richards

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How To Safeguard Schools Against Cyber Attacks this School Year

All across the country, students are heading back to school, in one form or another. The pandemic obviously changed the education experience across the board. However, one of the most top-of-min...

Lisa Plaggemier

Thoughts

Thoughts on Learner Variability

With all the attention being paid to the differences between learners and the need for differentiation, it is also important to remember that intra- learner variability can be just as perplexin...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Ideas

Getting Beyond the News Fix

The headlines in the news this Fall seem so predictable. I don’t know if that is because I am old and have seen it “all” before, or because the coverage of events is predictable. But whatever ...

Charles Sosnik

Share to Care

Facilitating the Journey to Informed Citizenry

Our country and our schools appear to be in the news a lot these days. Many of our citizens might even say we are in crisis. To an educator, these are opportunities for cognitive growth for thei...

Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.

Ideas

Preventing School Violence is a Winnable Exercise

We cannot think it won’t happen here. “Here” is everywhere.  It was supposed to be a new school year – a fresh start with a new “normal” after being closed for an entire year. Three days into ...

Franklin Schargel

Innovation

EdTech in 2021: Three Key Trends Shaping the Use of Technology in Education this Year

The combination of education and technology is a hot topic in 2021. Virtual classrooms and e-learning have become the new norm, and new technologies start to determine early education.  The di...

Hugo Aguirre

Research

Teachers: What You Should Know about the Brain

A recently published  research study  on teachers’ understanding of the brain and neuroscience research has been getting a lot of attention. The findings, based on surveys of teachers in the U.K...

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...