Featured Articles
How to Engage More Girls in Coding
Women occupy only one-fourth of the coding jobs in the United States. Here’s how schools can help change that.
Dennis Pierce
These California Districts are Using Technology in Very Different Ways
Technology means different learning opportunities for different districts. There’s a lot to get excited about. At a recent Learning Counsel event in Sacramento, officials from three Califo...
The LC Staff
Why Districts Must Support Instructional Coaches in Innovative Ways
In the United States, over 200,000 teachers leave the classroom each year, citing a lack of support and inadequate preparation as two of the main reasons for their exodus. Fortunately, distric...
Joellen Killion
Curriculum Associates CEO Rob Waldron: Reinforcing Quality Work
Rob Waldron joined Curriculum Associates in 2008, bringing leadership experience from both for-profit and nonprofit education worlds. He runs the company with a long-term focus, upholding the fo...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Refining the Art of Storytelling to Support Women in STEM
Stories are important. Before there was a written language there was storytelling. Telling stories about women in math and sciences have been a critical missing story for far too long. The stor...
Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman
Student Centricity and Better Teaching Through Technology
The Learning Counsel is a research institute and news media hub focused on providing context for the shift in education to digital curriculum. The organization has events in about 30 cities...
The LC Staff
Understanding the Digital Transition: Key Strategy Intelligence for 2019
Exclusive Sneak Preview of the Learning Counsel Digital Transition Strategy Survey
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Reaching the End Point
Chapter 3 from The Consumerization of Learning Reaching the End Point Is there an end point of the digital transformation for institutional education? There is an end point,...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Why Teachers and Students Need to Learn about Their Brains in the Digital Age
For good and bad, technology changes our brains. But then again, so does every experience we have. Our brains develop (throughout life) in interaction with our environment. As one neuroscientist...
Betsy Hill
How to Focus on the Student in Your Digital Transition
If you are new to the Learning Counsel, we are a research institute and news media hub, focused on providing context for the shift in education to digital curriculum. The membership is made ...
The LC Staff
I’d Rather Have Two Fast Nickels than One Slow Paradigm.
So what is a paradigm anyway? The short answer is a widely-held set of beliefs, a philosophical or theoretical framework from which to understand, interpret and act on data and events. In the ...
Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Editor-In-Chief
ThinkCERCA Founder and CEO Eileen Murphy Buckley: Teaching Analytical Learning Skills
In 2012, CEO Eileen Murphy Buckley founded ThinkCERCA, an online platform for personalized literacy instruction including all four core subjects–ELA, Social Studies, Science, and Math. A pro...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Machine Learning and the Power of Deliberate Practice
Senator Howard Stephenson is a force of nature. He has spent more than 26 years as a state senator in Utah. And now at age 68, he is playing a pivotal role in his state’s digital transformat...
The LC Staff
Vernier Software & Technology: Coding and STEM Education Engages Students in Problem-Solving Activities
David Vernier and his wife Christine Vernier founded Vernier Software & Technology 38 years ago before the concept of educational technology ever existed. David spent several years as a Phys...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
An Epic Road Trip
Chapter 2, T he Consumerization of Learning An Epic Road Trip Fear and Disbelief I have been working non-stop on a nationwide tour of eighty seven cities, speaking about what is...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
School Design Panel Discusses Digital Transition
Digital Leaders Share Strategies for Digital Success Late last year, the Learning Counsel featured a group of important panel discussions as part of their 2018 National Gathering in Hous...
The LC Staff
The Blur
This is Chapter 6, The Blur, from The Consumerization of Learning. In the last few cities of our ongoing Digital Curriculum Discussions, there have been more varied forms of schools...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Beyond Bandwidth & Barriers
Dr. Mark Benigni has been the superintendent at Meriden Public Schools in Meriden, Connecticut for over nine years. In that time, he has led the district to remarkable growth, not in student...
The LC Staff
Consumer Awareness
Chapter 14: Consumer Awareness from The Consumerization of Learning Most educators, along with growing numbers of families and students, are aware of screen learning options. They’ve been ...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Big League School Remodel: Systems vs. Silo Thinking
Lenny Schad is the Chief Technology Information Officer at Houston Independent School District. He is considered one of the greatest minds in P-12 education when it comes to information tech...
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
