Featured Articles
Using SEL to support college and career readiness
We often hear employers and college recruiters talk about soft skills – those skills that go beyond technical knowledge about a job or academic test scores – and the importance of those skills...
Christine Nicodemus
What’s Your Learning Model?
The purpose of a learning model shift is to allow schools and teachers to retain relevancy, perhaps even supremacy, over fully consumer models available today, which by their very nature will be...
LeiLani Cauthen
What the Pandemic Taught Parents That Could Change Education for the Better
When teachers and students were forced to shift to remote learning during the pandemic, parents experienced plenty of angst. Could their children learn as well on a computer screen as they did...
Emily Greene
The New 70/30 Rule: 70% Will Get Us $72 Trillion
In Part One of this series , we envisioned a world where vastly greater numbers of students could improve their cognitive skills so that they score at the 70 th percentile or higher. Why th...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Classroom Collaboration: Privacy and Security
If the recent pandemic has taught educators anything, it's that privacy is paramount to the teacher, trainer and student user experience, especially when minors are involved. Not surprisingly, s...
Allen Drennan
How Education Can Get the Most Out of Technology
For more than 60 years, Singapore's schools have incorporated technology into their students’ day-to-day learning processes, setting the goal for them to develop competitive vocational skills....
Hugo Aguirre
High Tech Tells a Story
Technology is inescapable. Whether teaching and learning at home or at school, we rely on hardware and software to help us. Notice the words “help us.” Computers and systems are tools for us to ...
Tamara Fyke
Overcoming Critical Issues with Better Master Scheduling
Educational leaders are facing unprecedented times. These critical issues are pushing officials to make difficult decisions about teaching and learning, while leaving them wondering what the...
The LC Staff
The Case for Hybrid Logistics to Solve Inequity, Part 2: Letting Humans Be Human
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. Part one can he found here . The crux of the issue is that teaching is defined by nearly all traditional public schools as a ...
LeiLani Cauthen
ESSER Funds: Legislation and Leverage
On Thursday, March 11, 2021, the first anniversary of the pandemic declaration, H.R. 1319, the “American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021,” was signed and became Law 117-2. The ARPA, a $1.9 trilli...
The LC Staff
Learning Leadership versus Systemic Inequities
The nation’s schools are aggressively working to fight systemic inequities, but there is one many overlook. Learning is not truly personalized. It’s “tweaked” to individualize within narrow la...
Chris McMurray
Making Lemonade in a Pandemic
Superintendent explains how her district has used the lessons and funding of distance learning to help build a brighter future for students and teachers.
Dr. Kandace Bethea
Who Packed Your Parachute?
In honor of Memorial Day, I am sharing this to honor the heroes in our armed forces who have given so much and continue to give. Thank you for making a difference. Charles Plumb was a US Nav...
Franklin Schargel
The Case for Hybrid Logistics to Solve Inequity
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two part series. First of all, hybrid logistics is a trending thing. Hybrid is the new word for schools that are delivering live teaching for students ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Tips to Rock Your Demo Lesson
You crushed the interview and now they invited you in for a demo lesson! Cue the panic. As a candidate for an open teaching position, the demo lesson is a vital opportunity to showcase your te...
James Sanders
School Violence Didn’t Take a Holiday
Mass school shootings never stopped during the pandemic. Despite the fact that most schools were closed to in-person learning, school shootings continued to take place. Education Week Tracker re...
Franklin Schargel
Individualized wellbeing programs: Overcoming the 3 biggest challenges
Challenge #1: Who has the time for wellbeing? This is largely a manifestation of the complexity of wellbeing itself and ties into the below challenge of 'meaning.’ Given its complexity, ther...
Ian Fagan, Julian Fagan and James Sanders
What Teachers and Students Need to Know about Learner Variability
Teachers and students have known since the time of Socrates that learners are different from each other, with different perspectives and aptitudes. These days, it may seem as if there is more va...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Let the Badging Begin: How to Get Your District Started with Micro-Credentials
As a district leader, it’s important to help educators stay motivated and feel acknowledged, especially after a challenging year like this one. Introducing micro-credentials is one way to do thi...
Adam Geller
Overcoming Critical Issues with Better Master Scheduling
Educational leaders are facing unprecedented times. These critical issues are pushing officials to make difficult decisions about teaching and learning, while leaving them wondering what the...
The LC Staff
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
