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Perspective

A Message from The Future to Superintendents

No More Endless Fixing

The LC Staff

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Impero Software: From Parliament to Achieving Educational Objectives

Appointed CEO of Impero Software in 2018, Richard Fuller was born and raised in the United Kingdom in a town called Bedford of Bedfordshire. After graduating college, Fuller began his career a...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Spotlight

A Mindset for Transformation, not just Turn-Around Strategy

The mindset for school transformation is not the turn-around strategies for schools of old.  “As you go through transformation, there are some things in schools that need to die,” said Dr. Paul ...

Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief, Learning Counsel

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Edthena: Improving Education by Video Analyzing Teachers

Edthena assists school districts in professional development by using the platform to promptly and smoothly upload videos of a teacher’s classroom instruction. The teachers review and share th...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Event News

Digital Transition Discussion Recap – San Antonio, TX January 15, 2019

  The Learning Counsel event in San Antonio, TX started with a new Learning Counsel research-based market briefing covering the use and saturation of student devices, K12 hardware spend, teach...

Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief

Ideas

National Gathering Call for Speakers

Nov. 15-17, Dallas, Texas

The LC Staff

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This User Group Takes a Deep Dive into the School User Experience

The Learning Counsel is a research institute and news media hub headquartered in Sacramento. Its membership includes approximately 215,000 superintendents and assistant superintendents, technolo...

Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Editor

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The World of Work (WOW): Students Aligning Careers with Education

  The Cajon Valley Union School District’s vision is "Happy Kids, Engaged in Healthy Relationships, on a Path to Gainful Employment," and that is how the World of Work initiative started. ...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Innovation

What School Innovation Should Look Like

  At the Learning Counsel’s National Gathering in Houston, TX, the major theme was “Designed for Digital.  Keynote speaker LeiLani Cauthen, CEO of the Learning Counsel, presented a new way to ...

The LC Staff

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Culture Clash

The Consumerization of Learning Chapter 8 Culture Clash There are many factors in our culture supporting a deeper digital transition. Some of these factors are unavoidable and have alr...

LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning

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Peachjar: School Districts Reduce Paper Waste, Save Money and Time While Keeping Parents More Informed

Combining educational technology with paperless communication is a digital program where districts, teachers, students, and parents can take advantage of a technology that not only helps the env...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

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Insistence to the Resistance of Digital

People love things that are comfortable and easy. In a warm and stress-free home or classroom with orderly and tried and true methods we feel relaxed. Change is something like a windstorm blow...

Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief, Learning Counsel

Thoughts

The Grand Scheme

The following is Chapter 16, The Grand Scheme, from The Consumerization of Learning Thus far, some of what might be a grand scheme for a revitalized and restructured education sector has alr...

LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning

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Ditch the Spelling Test!

Two second-grade teachers explain why they’ve replaced rote memorization with a phonics-based approach that maximizes reading and writing development.

Robyn Kendrick and Kyla Cook

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Learning Counsel Recognizes Outstanding Digital Districts and Bestows Top Awards

  At the Learning Counsel’s 2018 Annual Gathering and National Awards event in Houston, 10 innovative schools and districts were recognized for their transformational work in creating digita...

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SmartEdTech: Designs Centralized Environment for Digital Learning

Brian Sharp became the CEO of SmartEdTech over two years ago. With 19-years in educational technology, his career includes working at Apple, PowerSchool, Apex Learning, Kickboard and Rethink d...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

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Dr. Keith Osburn at The Learning Counsel’s 2018 National Gathering: The Semantics of Learning in a Technological World

Dr. Keith Osburn is the Assistant Superintendent, Georgia Virtual Learning at the Georgia Department of Education. He was a featured presenter at the Learning Counsel’s 2018 National Gathering i...

Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Editor

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What are you afraid of?

This year’s keynote speaker at the Learning Counsel’s 2018 National Gathering in Houston was Kahle Charles, the Executive Director of Curriculum and Design at St. Vrain Valley Schools. Located a...

Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Editor

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Digital Equity- What are We Missing?

  Access and equity are embedded into the ethos of many districts’ strategic plans.  The learning ecosystems that are being created are worthy of praise and exploration. In that spirit of expl...

Lynn M. Meyers, M. Ed

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FreshGrade Helps Teachers, Parents and Students Converse About Learning

Lane Merrifield, the co-founder of Club Penguin, now owned by Disney, and current founder and CEO of FreshGrade , is getting ready to appear on Canada’s version of Shark Tank, Dragons’ Den. Cat...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer


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...