Featured Articles
Understanding and Preventing Student Suicide: Information for Educators and Parents
In a world that continually presents challenges to our youth, it's our duty as educators, administrators, specialists, and parents to equip them with the tools they need to navigate thes...
Jennifer Belcher and Dr. A. Jordan Wright
Instructional Audio is Critical to Success for Non-Native English-Speaking Students
Students spend between 75 and 80 percent in listening activities while in their classrooms every day. However, on any given day, there are a minimum of 30 percent who don’t clearly hear their...
Merri Bragg
Are you Marketing or Just Producting?
Producting is a made-up word, but it fits what so many marketers are doing these days. In the education industry, a bajillion Edtech products answer a lot of needs but blur into a confusion b...
LeiLani Cauthen
EdTech Strategy: Facilitating Connections that Matter Between Education Leaders
One thing that I have seen over many years of working with education leaders around the world is that they don’t often get enough opportunities to connect and learn from one another. The heart ...
Jeff Lowe
Schools in the Office: How Non-Traditional Spaces Can Transform Education
When we sold our existing high school building about two years ago, we didn’t think it would be too difficult to find a replacement. We knew we wanted our alternative high school—where about ...
Samantha Tower
Safeguarding Student Data in the Digital Age
In today's dynamic digital landscape, the integration of technology in education has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for students to learn, collaborate, and prepare for their roles ...
Kris Astle
Digital Reading Platforms Can Help School Libraries Diversify Their Collections
Reading is an essential activity for developing vocabulary, fluency and the other foundational literacy skills that students need for success in school and in life. In addition, having a dive...
Betsey Lee
Cultivating Healthy Connections with Students
Over the past 25 years of working with administrators and teachers around SEL, the pushback has been “I don’t have time for that” or “I don’t know what to do” or “I’m not a school counselor.”...
Tamara Fyke
Highlighting the Human Learner in Learning Environments
Over the past few years, learning environments have undergone significant changes, especially due to the pandemic. There has been a shift in what is considered an appropriate learning environ...
Ziho Kang
Ultimate Guide to the New SAT: 5 Critical Things to Know
Put your pencils down; a major transformation is on the horizon for an iconic rite of passage for college hopefuls since its inception in 1926. The SAT will soon be shedding its paper skin to...
Tim Levin
Creating a Comprehensive Cybersecurity Awareness Program for a K-12 School
When examining cybersecurity breaches comprehensively, it becomes clear that human error constitutes the primary weak link regarding vulnerability. In previous times, schools could provide th...
Charlie Sander
How to De-Jitter the Back to School Jitters
As a mom of three children, ages 25, 20 and 17, our family has had many first days of school ranging from preschool to college. No matter how old my kids are, every year they each deal with bac...
Tamara Fyke
A.I. & the Seven Things that Make Us Human
With A.I. arriving in schools, questions of its use and possible threat to teaching and learning have erupted across the world. We looked back at what Learning Counsel’s 2022 National Digital T...
LeiLani Cauthen
Literacy is a Civil Right
The benefits of knowing how to read go far beyond academic achievement. Literacy leads to personal empowerment, academic success, informed decision making, active civic participation, improve...
Liz Brooke, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
The Blessed Cloth: Weaving the Minds of Today’s Learners
A perennial challenge for teachers has been weaving multiple subjects into a coherent whole for students. ELA is ELA, Math is Math, and Science is Science. Right? The standards have been defi...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
How to Leverage Technology to Promote Cybersecurity Awareness
The issue of cybersecurity in schools is not going away anytime soon. A worldwide survey conducted by cybersecurity firm Sophos between January and March involving 3,000 IT/cybersecurity le...
Charlie Sander
How to Fix the Missing Piece Between ELL and Mainstream Teachers
It’s that time of the year again - back to School! Being an ELL or bilingual teacher comes with many gifts and challenges. What is one challenge you face the most in your professional teachi...
Robyn D. Shulman
Closing Digital Divisions Requires Long-term Solutions
The ABCs of School Technology – Always Being Connected
Elliot Levine
Active Learning vs. Passive Learning: It’s All Active Learning
Like many topics in education, the debate between “Active Learning” and “Passive Learning” relies more on philosophy than science and uses the word “learning” when what is actually being disc...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Second Chances: Transforming School Literacy
Four years ago, our school received the news that no one ever wants to hear: it had been labeled as “CIR” or comprehensive intervention required. As an “F” school, the 200-student institution h...
Michael Gollow
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
