Featured Articles
We Need to Treat K-12 Public Schools as An Essential Service
“For the past 6 months, policymakers and the U.S. public have weighed economic against public health considerations in debating what limits to set on individuals and collective behaviors in att...
Franklin Schargel
The Delicate Question of Teacher Digital Transition
“Let’s make sure we all get one thing very clear. Tech is replacing the old whole-group model , it’s not replacing true human direct instruction. It’s making direct individual instruction a ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Revisiting SAMR in Education: Form Leads Function in the New Reality
Does SAMR continue to meet the need of describing the depth and breadth of change needed in education today?
LeiLani Cauthen
Ten Keys to Affective School Leadership
This is the latest article in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to work thro...
Jamie Bricker
Reopening Schools but Emptier, Physically Distanced, and still some Remote Students - The State of K12 Schools in America
We need to talk about the state of K12 schooling in America. It’s a different world now. The Learning Counsel’s major Digital Transition Survey showed our first data in October 2020 of the natio...
LeiLani Cauthen
No More School Money Worries
First there was the CARES Act, which is still not entirely spent out. Many areas of the country who didn’t get their allocation spent up by the end of 2020 got extensions . The CARES Act was...
LeiLani Cauthen
Make Family Dinner a Priority
Family dinner and school success don’t seem to go together, at least not on the surface. But let me share a short story. At the school where I use to teach, the valedictorian one year was asked ...
Joshua M. Sneideman
The Role of Cognitive Skills in Academic Performance
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a five-part series. The negative impact of COVID-19-related disruptions on student learning has fallen disproportionately on students living...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Understanding the Choices We Make
"People are capable of flight. The problem is the landing." --Mark Yozart Acrophobia applies to people with "extreme, irrational and persistent fears of heights and situations associat...
Mac Bogert
The Oracle at Sacramento
2800 hundred years ago in Greece, a priestess named Pythia was famous throughout the ancient world for divining the future, and it is said no major decisions were made without consulting her fir...
Charles Sosnik
Simple Steps to Eliminate Zoom Fatigue
Over the past week, I have heard myself and several others say, “I’m tired of Zoom. I’m ready to be with real people.” I have also led more professional trainings and student workshops online t...
Tamara Fyke
4 Districts Review New A.I. Teacher Assistant
What if there were a new software application that uses your own teachers digitized into animated avatars to present lessons? Learners engage in interactive conversations with socially intel...
The LC Staff
Pandemic Positives Made Permanent
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to ...
Jamie Bricker
2021: The Road Less Traveled
Now that the year 2020 is over, we should all breathe a sigh of relief. Most of us are hoping that a new year will bring a new, more positive chapter to our lives and those around us. Educators ...
Christy Martin, Ed.D.
Emotional Intelligence: The Smarter Path to High Achievement
Editor’s Note: This is part three of a three-part series on student wellbeing. What is social emotional health and how do we define the healthy child? What are some ways that schools ...
Julian Fagan & Ian Fagan
Tech Spending Predictions for America’s Schools in 2021, Amid Enrollment Losses
EdTech spend is expected to increase by $2.4 billion in 2021, up from $35.8 billion to $38.2 billion. 2020 spend by America’s K12 schools was captured by the Learning Counsel’s Digital Transit...
LeiLani Cauthen
5 Recommendations for Administrators in 2021: The New Normal is Not Traditional Schooling, it’s Logistics
The Learning Counsel’s Digital Transition Survey 2020 posed many questions aimed at discovering the transition tactics of schools. What was found indicates that most schools consider they are fu...
LeiLani Cauthen
Absent Without Leave: America’s Traditional K-12 Learners are Leaving, Costing Schools Hundreds of Millions in Their Wake
Our traditional K-12 students are begging out of attendance at record numbers, often with no notification whatsoever. It’s a trend that began years ago but has accelerated at blinding speed sinc...
Charles Sosnik
Education is about Relationships
This week I finished reading The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis again. His writings are lifetime favorites, and even though I know how the story goes I uncover something new with each read. At the ...
Tamara Fyke
EduJedi Leadership Society Grants Awards at Learning Counsel’s 2020 National EduJedi Gathering
(Sacramento, CA December 15, 2020) This year is clearly a landscape shift for educational technologies. It is important to remember how far we have come in only a few decades with technology...
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
