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Throwing the CEO a Lifeline
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Throwing the CEO a Lifeline

Earlier today I saw an email asking CEOs what they are doing to throw their employees a lifeline. As a CEO, this topic warms my heart, but if I’m honest it’s only halfway heartwarming for me. I ...

Edgar Blunt

Helping Teachers Evaluate Student Progress
People

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

Streamlining Instructional Education
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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

Viable Strategy Helps Students Learn by Doing
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Viable Strategy Helps Students Learn by Doing

Meeting with Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe defined how creating the company's viable strategy is the utmost function in determining the success of an educational company. It is a strategy tha...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Empowering Students to Take Control of Their Learning
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Empowering Students to Take Control of Their Learning

I talked with Edgenuity CEO Sari Factor soon after she was honored at the 9th Annual ASU+GSV Summit with the organization's inaugural Power of Women Award called POW! She received the recognitio...

Kenna McHugh, Learning Counsel Writer

Featured Papers

The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.

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Addressing Crises in School Absenteeism, Staffing and Privacy: Using a human touch tech solution
Discussing the issues of student absenteeism, staffing and privacy might seem like biting off more than one leader can chew, but they are related from an important perspective: managing transacti...
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...