Featured Articles
Bringing Back the Joy of Teaching: Unique Voices to Help You Thrive
When schools closed throughout the country for the past few years, teachers had to learn how to teach from afar and figure out different ways to support the needs of all their students and pa...
Robyn D. Shulman
Audiobooks Show Promise in Aiding Literacy Challenges
Literacy rates in America have dropped in recent years. According to the Center for Education Statistics , 37% and 30% of fourth and eighth graders, respectively, do not meet the standard li...
Ruby Doherty
Augmented Reality: The Power of Experiential Learning
The creation of powerful classroom experiences is something that every educator strives for. When learning is memorable, students make connections that help them easily acquire and retain inf...
Phil Birchinall
Stopping the 360-Degree Circle: Three Ways to Rethink Education Reform
At one time or another, we’ve all incorrectly used common phrases in the English language. It doesn’t matter if we’re educators with years of teaching under our belts, we each have our own “f...
Jeff Dase
Navigating the New Terrain of Education: The Power of Guided Discovery Learning
In the evolving landscape of education, where the debate between knowledge-based and skill-based learning continues, Guided Discovery Learning (GDL) emerges as a transformative approach. Th...
Jason McKenna
Unlocking Genuine Motivation for Lifelong Learning and Success
Most educators, at least implicitly, believe motivation is something you either have or don’t. So, for the students who don’t, they’ve designed an emotional torture chamber that makes learnin...
Garrett Smiley
Taking and Giving Feedback with a Growth Mindset
One of the questions on the growth mindset quiz that we use to help our clients (and ourselves) assess our growth mindset is this: “I appreciate when instructors and coaches give me feedba...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
School Choice Legislation Could put $127 Billion in Play by 2025 Covering 52% of America’s Students
School Choice is the number one shift that will subtract students and revenue from traditional public schools. Nineteen States have adopted Choice legislation and most of those have very little...
Doug Cauthen
What is STEM: An Exploration Beyond the Acronym
In the heart of Moscow, in 1929, a man named Solomon Shereshevsky walked into the Academy of Communist Education, unknowingly about to reveal a paradox that lies at the core of what we unders...
Jason McKenna
Expanding Family Involvement
No matter what the barriers you face, the first step to engaging families in your school is learning to empathize with them.
Laura Nicole Hill
Using Data in the Era of the Great Rationalization and Consolidation
During the COVID-19 pandemic, EdTech tools and resources flooded into classrooms nationwide. As the unprecedented, pandemic-driven levels of school funding recede and budgets tighten, school ...
Lisa Katz
Closing the Capacity Gap: An Effective Intervention for Title I Students
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is the illusion of knowledge” --Roger Stark The Illogical Logic of Title I Funding Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 wa...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Ivy Nelson's Insights on Humanizing Technology in Belton School District
At the Learning Leadership Symposium, Ivy Nelson, CETL, Instructional Technology Manager at Belton School District #124, took the stage to share the district's journey of humanizing tec...
Doug Cauthen
Adopting a Schoolwide Communications Platform
Until 2021, we were using a legacy mass notification platform for our school-to-home communications. The system was cumbersome and difficult to use, and teachers didn’t want to use it for the...
Stephanie Deming and Brittany Long
Brewster Central School District's Strategic Leadership Priorities: A Journey Towards Student Success
Dr. Laurie Barlow, Superintendent of Schools, and Dr. Michelle Gosh, Deputy Superintendent, recently shared their insights and strategies at the Learning Counsel Learning Leadership Symposium h...
Doug Cauthen
My Personal Story of Hybrid Logistics and a new Form of Schooling
Do you know about the Hybrid Logistics Project? This is my journey to study logistics, small-batch manufacturing and time and space use, and apply them to a foster a whole new form of schoo...
LeiLani Cauthen
A Schooling Metamorphosis that’s not What You Think
Do you know about the Hybrid Logistics Project? Most educators think of “hybrid” learning in a couple of ways. They either think it’s live video conferencing with the same class structure a...
Learning Counsel
Lessons Learned: LCFF 10 Years Later – How Data Can Support District Goals
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which was set in place in 2013 to direct more funds to districts with the most high-need students...
Jonathan Strout and Jodi Peters
Digital Wellness: Nurturing Health in the Online Learning Era
As the landscape of education undergoes a digital transformation, educators find themselves navigating the challenges of online teaching with unprecedented intensity. In this new era of virtual...
Ruby Doherty
Celebrate Good Times: Come On!
I see a lot of nervous Nellies out there. And guarded Garrys. And cautious Carls. 2022 brought us the biggest opportunity for learners since, well, ever. When generative AI was heralded a y...
Charles Sosnik
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
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