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Learning in the Age of Disruption

Editor’s Note: This is Part Two of a New Monthly Series, The Brief History of the Future of Education. If You Missed Part One, You Can Read it Here .   Change: Nothing Stays the Same...

Ryan L Schaaf

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PublicSchoolWORKS CEO Steve Temming, Ph.D.

Simplifying School Safety and Regulatory Compliance

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

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Leadership Equity: Q and A with Superintendent Dr. A. Katrise Perera, Gresham-Barlow Schools

  Dr. A. Katrise Perera is a self-proclaimed life-long learner with nearly 25 years of service to learning communities and almost 19 in an education leadership capacity. She is an innovative a...

The LC Staff

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Discussing the State of Actionable Data in American Education (Part Two)

Editor’s Note: This is part two of a discussion held during a nationwide virtual meeting. If you missed part one, you can read it here . As part of the continuing series on  Knowstory L...

The LC Staff

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Education’s Moonshot: Doubling Student Achievement

  Editor’s note: This is part one of a four-part series. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed that America would go to the moon. Such a wildly audacious statement was so far out...

Sonny Magana

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How Technology will Alter the Teaching Profession: The roles will change, but not their importance

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of glimpses into the possible future of education. Everything changes. And Technology changes everything. In education like everywhere else, the ...

LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher

Perspective

Why Are Free VPNs Bad For Privacy

When it comes to privacy protection, one of the most popular tools is a VPN. Over the years, the interest in VPNs has increased, especially post-Snowden . A VPN encrypts traffic data so that no...

Brad Smith

People

Bob Lenz, CEO PBLWorks: Student Retention Through Project Based Learning

  Bob Lenz became CEO of Buck Institute for Education PBLWorks in 2015. Before taking on his role at PBLWorks, his familiarity with Project Based Learning (PBL) matured as the co-founder of E...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

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“Systems Thinking” Supports Transformational Change in K-12 Education

Despite the last few years’ conversations about the need to transform K-12 learning, we remain stuck in familiar, dated questions associated with school and district silos.  Current organization...

L. Beatriz Arnillas MFA, SPHR

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A Nationwide Referendum on Public Education

Americans are voting in a nationwide referendum on public education. But it’s not on any ballot. And curiously, it hasn’t made the national news media. It’s the number of families that are leavi...

Charles Sosnik

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It’s Time for Strengths-Based Project Based Learning

These days, change arrives not through observable cause and effect, as in the days of Newton, but through field-like, quantum shifts that suddenly reveal themselves. What was hidden a moment ago...

Thom Markham

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6 Benefits of Using a Safe, Moderated Platform for School Communications

The tech giants’ social media platforms are crawling with trolls and data miners. A ‘closed’ social network connects parents to schools without the risks.

Chaks Appalabattula & Danielle McColl

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Tyson Smith, Reading Horizons CEO: Helping Teachers Reach Every Student

  Since its inception over 33 years ago, Reading Horizons focus is building the awareness of their educational products that center on the Reading Horizons Method. The method teaches childre...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

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Redesigning the Digital Learning Environment

  One of the more interesting and often overlooked aspects of the digital transformation in education is the redesigning of physical spaces within a school. As part of the continuing series on...

Learning Counsel Staff

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Imagining the Future and Making it Happen: Philadelphia Panel explores the possibilities of Technology in Education

  Weekly during conference season, the Learning Counsel holds events across America. In addition to expert speakers, panel discussions are convened among the area’s top educational technology ...

The LC Staff

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL ED-TECH PUBLISHERS AND SCHOOLS: Pending Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Modifications

The LC Staff

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Discussing the State of Actionable Data in American Education (Part One)

Editor’s note: Read the rest of the story later this month in Part Two – how districts are beginning to explore interoperability options like middleware to solve the data disconnect.   As ...

Learning Counsel Staff

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Overcoming a “That’s The Way We Have Always Done It” Mindset in Schools

Editor’s Note: This is Part One of a New Monthly Series, The Brief History of the Future of Education.   It is truly astounding how people can embrace doing things the way they have always...

Ryan L Schaaf

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Successful Technology Comes from a Focus on the Learner

  At a recent Digital Transition Event in Atlanta , the Learning Counsel held a panel discussion featuring instructional technology officials from three of the largest and most successful sch...

The LC Staff

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The Difference in Cultural Norms between Generations

Millennials share everything, older generations do not

LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher


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...