Featured Articles
New Survey Findings: Student Perceptions on Skilled Trades Education
The skilled trades industry offers lucrative and meaningful careers, however there is a growing skilled trades labor shortage in the U.S. that is severely impacting the economy and a number of h...
Mary Kelly
Resources Now That All Schools Are Temporarily Homeschools
This is the time that America pulls together. Most schools under the current threat of coronavirus spread are opting to close and attempt remote learning. The Learning Counsel is at yo...
The LC Staff
The Learning Counsel Announces Thom Markham to Keynote Their 2020 National Gathering
Global entrepreneur considered one of the founding fathers of Project Based Learning
The LC Staff
Applying a Trauma-Sensitive Approach to a District-Wide Model
With burgeoning awareness of the profound and life-long impacts of childhood trauma, districts across the country are becoming more proactive about caring for students who have suffered trauma a...
Lisa Riggs
Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools
Schools cannot prepare, highly successful graduates if there are not sufficient highly effective educators in school classrooms and in school front offices.
Frank Schargel
Driving Test Score Increase with Comedy
Educator Profile: Kalyan Ray-Mazumder is Acting the Part of a Lifetime
The LC Staff
Just What We Need: Infusing SEL into CTE
“When am I EVER going to use this?” is the classic question that drives teachers crazy. Because of the way education is currently structured, many teachers in regular education don’t have an ans...
Edgar Blunt & Dr. Brett Taylor
How to implement STEAM curriculum that makes an impact
More than 75 percent of all jobs will require some expertise in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering Arts Math) within the next decade. But there’s a problem. Only 10 percent of US teacher...
Jamie Turner
Teachers Can Transform Education if We Reinvent Professional Learning
When I propose that it’s possible for teachers to transform education, usually I get pushback like this: “Teachers aren’t known as change agents; they complain but remain compliant even while di...
Thom Markham
Leadership Requires Relationship Technology
TANSTAAFL The industrial revolutions—mid 18 th century, again in the early 19 th century— arrived on waves of new technology. The invention of the steam engine and the sewing machine trans...
Mac Bogert
What are the Most Popular Classroom Technologies in 2020?
The way of teaching and learning is changing every day. In today’s classrooms, keeping children focused on the content they are studying is a big challenge. Innovative and creative technologies ...
Monica Gill
Observable Barriers to Real Change in Education
The Learning Counsel conducts Digital Transition Discussion events regionally, in cities across America. At a recent event in our nation’s capital, an informal roundtable discussion was convened...
Charles Sosnik
Close the Achievement Gap: 5 Specific Strategies
A key facet of instructional leadership is addressing and closing the achievement gap. There are two reasons that principals should lead the charge to close the achievement gap. First, it is the...
Barbara R. Blackburn and Ron Williamson
The Digital Transformation of Literacy Education
How teaching reading has (and hasn’t) changed over the past 30 years.
Tyson Smith
Administrators: How to Sell SEL to Teachers
Although SEL is considered one of the hottest topics in education, there is still a need for educators to understand why it is important. In a world full of increased uncertainty and trauma, man...
Tamara Fyke
The Looming Teacher Shortage: What’s a Superintendent to Do?
In December of 2019 the US Department of Labor confirmed that the number of teachers that schools across the country are short is 300,000.A year ago when we here at the E Squared Group put toget...
Jacqueline Gordon
First EduJedi Training Orientation Video is Now Available to Everyone
The Learning Counsel’s EduJedi Leadership Society is an existing community of over 1,000 Schools and Districts that annually attend Digital Discussions meetings, as well as more than 215,000...
The LC Staff
Want More Tech-Savvy Kids: Stop Fighting Technology
I have a crazy idea. What if we stopped fighting technology? Instead of punishing our students for bringing their phones to class, what if we allowed their phones? I asked my college-aged son...
Tamara Fyke
Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button
The current public education system has stagnated. The information and technology explosion has exposed a behemoth that is not able to pivot and adapt. Without massive action, the United States ...
Matt Ridenour
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
