Featured Articles
Threat Horizon for Schools
There is still a lot of money from not one, not two, but three enormous stimulus bills putting schools awash with funding right now. Word to the wise: spending on the old traditional schooling...
LeiLani Cauthen
Digital Safety and Cyberbullying Prevention Tips for Students Heading Back to School
As administrators, teachers and also parents, we’re ready, willing and able to make sure that our children are safe. So, as we start to plan for our kids heading back to school, we may worry tha...
Pat Craven
All We Are Saying, Is Give Peas a Chance
Not so common wisdom from the cheap seats
Charles Sosnik
We Are Resilient
It’s back to school time. Amidst the growing concerns about the Delta variant, students, families and educators are heading back into the routine of daily in-person learning. The stress of healt...
Tamara Fyke
Tips to share with Families: Supporting Children with Speech and Language Disorders as They Return to In-Person School
Pandemic Learning Created Unique Challenges for Students with Communication Disorders
Diane Paul and Tiffany White
I Can’t Wait ‘til Conference Season
“I Can’t wait ‘til tomorrow, cause I get better looking every day.” --Joe Willie Namath Aside from being one of the best quarterbacks ever for a short number of seasons, Alabama’s Broa...
Charles Sosnik
Conversations Over Computations
I recently had the pleasure of finishing Robert Harris’s Pompeii , a terrific novel set in 79 AD. The plot covers engineering, physics, politics, corruption, love and redemption. In the final p...
Mac Bogert
K-12 Guide to Building District Resilience: How to be High Performing through Foreseeable Disruptions
As we emerge from the pandemic, K-12 leaders are balancing the pull to return to normal with their recognized responsibility to learn and improve. They are asking how to mitigate future lear...
The LC Staff
Eliminating Student Health Education Could be Deadly
As School Admins Prep for Back-to-School, It is essential to Emphasize the Importance of Health Education
Risa Berrin
Open Standards in the Education 4.0 Digital Learning Ecosystem
The current rate of change in digital learning offers great opportunities and introduces great challenges. The superior learning outcomes and high levels of career-readiness needed to satisfy th...
Robert Iskander
What Do You Mean by “Cognitive Capacity?”
We’ve been encountering the term “cognitive capacity” more and more often since we started to make the distinction between “cognitive ability” and “cognitive capacity” a few years ago. The reaso...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Remember the Good Old Days
Remember the good old days, before COVID changed our daily routines and sent our children home to have school with their parents or grandparents? Remember when things made sense, and you knew ...
Charles Sosnik
K-12 Guide to Building District Resilience: How to be High Performing through Foreseeable Disruptions
As we emerge from the pandemic, K-12 leaders are balancing the pull to return to normal with their recognized responsibility to learn and improve. They are asking how to mitigate future lear...
The LC Staff
Does Your School Need Online Cyber Safety Education?
Did you know that 400,000 kids per year are victims of identity theft? And many children are targeted by their peers via cyberbullying. Cyberbullies may even cross the line and venture into iden...
Pat Craven
Helping Students Get Back in the Swing of Things
Back-to-school time is usually a mix of nervousness and excitement. This year students may experience more anxiety than usual after 18 months of either distance or hybrid learning. In our desi...
Tamara Fyke
What the Summer’s Hottest PD Topics Reveal About Educators
What are the hottest topics for professional development in K-12 education over this extraordinary summer? As school districts across the nation prepare to return to in-person teaching, a snapsh...
Dr. Lynn Kepp
Millions of Students Missing: Now the Tough Grind, or Not
Facts about the national map of which district is “back to normal” and which isn’t are hard to put together, but the entirety of “normal” itself is in question. It’s also way-to-obviously being ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Solving the Teacher Shortage Can’t (by Itself) Solve the Learning Shortage
President Biden recently announced plans to fund efforts to address the shortage of teachers, a situation that has been building for many years and accelerated because of the pandemic. There is ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
The Survey Says… Big Tech Purchases with More Tech to Come: Looking Back to Look Forward
The U.S. K-12 sector spent $35.8 Billion in 2020 on all things EdTech, including hardware, major software systems, digital curriculum resources and networks, a healthy increase of $7.5 Billion o...
Charles Sosnik
How Distance Learning Tools Help Provide a Successful Teaching and Learning Experience
Virtual classrooms offer many possibilities when creating effective distance learning programs, for secondary and higher education as well as corporate learning environments. Education technolog...
Allen Drennan
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
