Featured Articles
Panel in Portland Discusses Digital Transformation and the Culture of Constant Change
The Learning Counsel held its regional event in Portalnd, OR on Sept. 20, 2018. It was a full day packed with a Market Briefing, dicussions on Digital Transition with a focus on Data and Analyti...
Doug Cauthen, Editor-in-Chief
Technology-Relative to our Understanding
Technology in the classroom is a relative thing – relative to our understanding as educators of the place technology has in the learning process. We have always had technology in education. 20...
Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Writer
Founder and CEO of BASE Education Robin Glen: Helping Students Communicate with Teachers
Founder and CEO of BASE Education Robin Glen keeps herself busy running her company and prioritizing her actions to meet her company’s goals. Such goals as helping students by “broadening the br...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Silver Falls School District’s Tech Director, Dr. Drew Hinds Speaks at Portland Learning Counsel Event, Sept. 20, 2018
Silver Falls School District’s Tech Director, Dr. Drew Hinds Speaks at Portland Learning Counsel Event, Sept. 20, 2018 Speaking at the Portland Digital Transition Discussion even...
The LC Staff
Transforming education from the ground up with the first Microsoft Flagship Schools
Renton Prep selected as one of only 2 Flagship Schools in the US. Only 17 selected in the entire world. https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/09/transforming-education-microsoft-flagsh...
The LC Staff
Cynthia Kaye, Founder and CEO Alive Studios: Reading and Math Lessons Come Alive in the Classroom
Founder and CEO of Alive Studios , Cynthia Kaye, is an innovator, developer, and publisher of educational software for Pre-K to 3rd-grade students. She earned a BS in Elementary Education f...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Consumerism's Current Restraints
The full-scale leap to consumerized learning is at present constrained by forces as thin as gossamer. There isn’t much holding it back as we can see by societal factors. First of all, consider...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
2gnoMe (To Know Me): Learning Experience Platform for Teachers
As CEO and founder of 2gnoMe , Ilya Zeldin talked with me about his immigration from Russia when he was 15 years old. He said it was the perfect age to start a new life. “It’s early enough to g...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
I Can’t Shut Up About Ground Zero for the Future – the Gathering, Houston, Nov. 28-30th
I can’t shut-up about this. I know a lot of educators who live mired in their daily struggles. Many do not see what is happening to the greater system of public education with any degree of re...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
Simple steps for getting and keeping your students’ interest
As I work with schools and staff, the most often asked question is: How do I engage my students? The frequent follow up to the question is an explanation that their students aren’t interested ...
Contributing Writer, Dr. Hope Dugan, Zia Learning
The Gift of Student Agency
Personalized Learning (PL), although a phrase in frequent use, still does not have a universally understood definition. I prefer to define it as an environment where strong relationships betw...
Contributing Writer, Dr. Hope Dugan, Zia Learning
ClassTag: Engage Parents, Boost Student Success, and Reward Teachers
Co-founder and CEO ClassTag , Vlada Lotkina struggled in 2015 to stay current on her daughter’s activities at preschool. She realized that while technology revolutionized most aspects of Americ...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Helping Teachers Leverage Technology
CEO Penda Learning, Corey Peloquin strives to make life easier for teachers. Ever since he was a middle school science teacher, he looked for solutions to easily and quickly evaluate students w...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
A New Career and Technical Education Act for a New Era
Last week, President Trump signed legislation that renewed and updated the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, the primary funding source from the federal government for CTE offe...
Charles Sosnik, Learning Counsel Writer
Real-time Data Analysis Eases Decision Making
CEO GuideK12 Chuck Amos is passionate about helping the educational community. “I love education. If we do our job well we make things a little better, more efficient and more effective for the ...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Step One of Education Designed for Learning: Reorientation
Everyone in education is familiar with “Orientation Night” for parents and students. There may even be new teacher orientation professional development. What is orientation, really, and what s...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
Delivering Digital STEM Curriculum to Improve the Quality of Teaching and Student Performance
CEO and President of Accelerate Learning Vernon Johnson served in public education for over 25 years. During those years, he served as a superintendent in several districts and led several educa...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Clouds, Testing, and a Student’s Mind
The advent of devices in the hands of so many students is causing new insights into what it means to learn. Learning is not just a byproduct of teachers and instructional planners busily tryi...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
Streamlining Instructional Education
Co-founder and CEO Andrew Schlessinger and I talked about the hot weather, commuting to work, and our career paths before we got down to discussing his company, SAFARI Montage . In 1985 he fo...
Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer
Conquering Time
In the future, super-actualized software systems will provide teachers with all the information they need to supervise their students individually with crafted learning programs. As mentione...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
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
