Featured Articles
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
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
Teaching Students With Easy-To-Use Electronic Building Blocks
Ayah Bdeir is the founder and CEO of littleBits . An engineer and interactive artist, she started the company in 2011. “littleBits has always been committed to empowering kids everywhere, regar...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Motivating Students with Quality Online Teaching
Founder and CEO of iTutor Harry Aurora started his company in 2013 after leaving the mortgage banking business. He turned to the educational field because three generations of his family were ed...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Smartphones-in-School, Brain Mush, Teaching Deep Reading…and Apples & Bicycles!
According to a March 8, 2018 report by Pew Research , one in four Americans didn't read a single book in the last year, and bookstore chains are in decline . However, Americans are actual...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher, Learning Counsel
Maintaining Student Records for Secondary Education
Michele Pitman is the founder and CEO of intelliVOL. Her company oversees x2VOL, a managing service for student records. The product provides tracking and reporting tools that generate and verif...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Digital Transition Q&A with Panel in New York, NY
Digital Transition Discussion Recap – New York, NY October 18, 2018 The Learning Counsel event in New York started with a new Learning Counsel market briefing covering the use of student...
Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief
With This Project, the Learning is Baked in
An intervention teacher shares how imagining their own bakeries inspired her students to collaborate, create, and consider future careers.
Deanna Freeman
Helping Teachers Evaluate Student Progress
Christine Willig, a 25-year K-12 industry veteran, became CEO of Illuminate Education following a five-way merger in July 2018. The merger combined assessment and data platforms (Illuminate Ed...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Q&A Session with Panel in Orlando, FL
Digital Transition Discussion Recap – Orlando, FL October 16, 2018 The Learning Counsel event in Orlando started with a new Learning Counsel market briefing covering the use of stude...
Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief
Why Video Games are the Future of Education
We live in a world where VR and AR are a thing, yet, we still learn from dusty books and explore boring topics in school. Sure, the math does help with your analytical thinking and memorization ...
Katie Greene
Unlock Each Student’s Learning Potential
Stuart Udell recently became the CEO of Achieve3000, arriving with over 25-year years of experience in educational technology. He most recently served as CEO of K12 Inc., the nation’s largest op...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Digital Transition Q&A with Panel in St. Louis, MO
Digital Transition Discussion Recap – St. Louis, MO October 9, 2018 The day started with a new Learning Counsel market briefing, and throughout the day there were workshops on data analy...
Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief
Students Build Apps with a Purpose in Mind
Thunkable grew out of a research collaboration between Google and MIT, known as MIT App Inventor, which was inspired by MIT Scratch. Co-founders Arun Saigal and Weihua James Li took the premis...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Panel in Dallas, TX discusses their students, technology and academics
Digital Transition Discussion Recap - Dallas, TX, Sept. 27 2018 The day started with a new Learning Counsel market briefing, and throughout the day there were workshops on data analytics, ...
Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief
Industry Leaders Present Application to Student’s Education
Sabari Raja is co-founder and CEO of Nepris Inc , a unique cloud-based platform connecting industry and education to inspire students through real-world connections and career exposure. With ...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
System Leadership Versus the Classroom
Systems thinking is a management discipline that first observes discrete functions and interactions between components. In education that would be the interactions amongst teachers, learners, ad...
LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher
Panel In Meriden, CT talks about what excites them about the future of education that technology is enabling
The Learning Counsel held its regional event in Meriden, CT on Sept. 25, 2018. It was a full day packed with a Market Briefing, dicussions on Digital Transition with a focus on Data and Analytic...
Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief
Primer on Education Analytics
Teachers and school administrators are curious about the capabilities of technology in relation to learning. What is software supposed to be doing for the process of education? In the piece-m...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
Help Children to Develop Skills Through Inspiration
Creatubbles Co-founder and CEO Paul Greenberg received both his B.S. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Technology and Policy from MIT. Before Creatubbles he served as CEO for...
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
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
