Featured Articles
Weekly NewsBrief 7/8-7/14
Middle schools beefing up career and technical ed labs – By Shawna De La Rosa, Education Dive In an effort to expose students to more career and technical education opportunities, mo...
The LC Staff
Weekly NewsBriefs 3/4/24 - 3/10/24
More Arkansas school districts hiring unlicensed teachers to cope with staff shortage – By Antionette Grajeda, Arkansas Advocate One in 12 educators working in Arkansas public schools ...
Doug Cauthen
Remember the Good Old Days
Remember the good old days, before COVID changed our daily routines and sent our children home to have school with their parents or grandparents? Remember when things made sense, and you knew ...
Charles Sosnik
Feds Spike Spending in K12
The three Federal stimulus bills already passed are seriously spiking the available monies for schools going into the rest of 2021 and indefinitely into the future. It depends on how fast and ho...
LeiLani Cauthen
Present Tense, Present Relaxed
It's likely that the brain developed for a simple purpose—survival. Compared to a tiger or crocodile, we're not very fast or strong. Perhaps our forebears sat around wondering if they could affo...
Mac Bogert
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
It’s hard to believe we are only in our seventh week of school closures. For many of us in the school biz, this has been the longest seven weeks of our lives. For some, this has been a period of...
Charles Sosnik
Betting on Education’s Long Game
When I was a young girl, we lived in an analog world. It was a different time. There was no Internet. No outside connectivity. Computers, such that they were, could be strung together in a netwo...
LeiLani Cauthen
Are You Having Fun Yet?
Hey you. Out there in San Francisco. And Chicago. And Atlanta. And New Jersey. And Tampa. And Dallas, and Silver Spring. For those of you running your education businesses in every major metropo...
Charles Sosnik
How A.I. and Education are Co-Catalysts for Societal Evolution
For the second year in a row, Curiosity Conference will draw top leaders in education and AI to Silicon Valley, where they will work to carve a path toward widespread integration of robotics i...
Sarah Acre
BenQ Education Launches New BenQ Board RP04 and RM04 Series
Providing All the Benefits of Google Services for Education, the EDLA-Certified Smart Boards Combine Safety, Flexibility, and Usability in a Subscription-Free Smart Board Built for Education
Doug Cauthen
Northeast - Motivation
According to LeiLani Cauthen, CEO & Publisher, Learning Counsel News Media & Research, “Motivation was really the number one issue in our pre-survey nationally, before we started this to...
The LC Staff
An Interview with Dr. Stacey Perez, Principal, Temecula International Academy
Dr. Stacey Perez, Principal, Temecula International Academy is interviewed by LeiLani Cauthen, CEO, Learning Counsel at a recent Learning Logistics and Tech event in San Diego, Ca. Dr. Perez and ...
Doug Cauthen
Fostering Equity and Innovation: Insights from Gwinnett County Public Schools
At the Learning Counsel Learning Logistics & Tech Tour event in Atlanta, GA, educational leaders gathered to explore the intersection of technology, teaching, and equity. Lisa Watkins, Execut...
Doug Cauthen
ISTELive 24 Session: AI and Education with Cisco
At ISTELive 24, Mary Schlegelmilch, Lead K12 Business Strategy at Cisco, alongside Morgen VanEsselstine and Marc Gomez, both Collaboration Customer Success Engineers at Cisco, delivered insightfu...
Doug Cauthen
We Are Resilient
It’s back to school time. Amidst the growing concerns about the Delta variant, students, families and educators are heading back into the routine of daily in-person learning. The stress of healt...
Tamara Fyke
Millions of Students Missing: Now the Tough Grind, or Not
Facts about the national map of which district is “back to normal” and which isn’t are hard to put together, but the entirety of “normal” itself is in question. It’s also way-to-obviously being ...
LeiLani Cauthen
What the Pandemic Taught Parents That Could Change Education for the Better
When teachers and students were forced to shift to remote learning during the pandemic, parents experienced plenty of angst. Could their children learn as well on a computer screen as they did...
Emily Greene
How Education Can Get the Most Out of Technology
For more than 60 years, Singapore's schools have incorporated technology into their students’ day-to-day learning processes, setting the goal for them to develop competitive vocational skills....
Hugo Aguirre
Making Lemonade in a Pandemic
Superintendent explains how her district has used the lessons and funding of distance learning to help build a brighter future for students and teachers.
Dr. Kandace Bethea
Extended School Year: Creative Strategies Are a Must
Let’s face it: Educators are exhausted. Parents are exhausted. Parents who are also educators are particularly exhausted. Students are feeling it too. Extending the school year may not be for ev...
Dr. Robert Avossa
5 EdTech Myths, Debunked!
Over the course of the pandemic, teaching staff have figured out and discovered the difficulties and obstacles that occur when learning is unguided and approached without a structure or guidelin...
Elizabeth Hines
The 30/70 Rule or the 70/30 Rule
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series. Businesses often refer to the 80/20 rule. When they do, it is in this context: 80 percent of our sales come from 20 percent of our cu...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Hiring Teachers Post-COVID: Everything Has Changed
When hiring teachers post-COVID, in many ways, little has changed. However, in many ways, everything has changed since the onset of the pandemic. At the very least, hiring teachers has become ...
James Sanders
Expanding Social Emotional Development: The Roles We All Play
Editor’s Note: This is part two of a series about how findings and solutions from Applied Educational Neuroscience are necessary in improving our approach to the social and emotional developmen...
Lane JaBaay
Building the 21st Century Worker: Are We Workforce-Ready?
In part one of this article, we took a look at the cognitive capacity and cognitive skills needed to build a workforce-ready employee. As we approach the mid-21st century, the need for prepari...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Miguel Cardona Brings Hope to Position of Secretary of Education
The last twelve months have been tumultuous for families, businesses, schools and teachers. With schools closed in most states for the past 12 months, educators came together district by distric...
Grant Hosford
Using School Data to Design an Effective Hybrid Learning Program
School administrators around the world are trying to ensure students get the instruction and support they need while keeping everyone safe from the coronavirus. In the initial phase of the pande...
Chad Reid
Compensatory Services Strategies in Three Steps
Parents, Extended School Year, and Legal Knowledge are Key
Jenny Barker
Unlocking the Ten Keys to Affective School Leadership: Part One
This is the latest article in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to work thro...
Jamie Bricker
Using Historical Moments as Teaching Moments
Every once in a while, history happens. Usually it is something tragic; occasionally it is something to celebrate. It is always noteworthy. All of these are teaching moments. Celebratory times u...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
What You Should Know about Executive Functions
As we learn about the role of cognitive skills in academic performance, we become increasingly aware of the importance of the subset of cognitive skills known as Executive Functions. Executive F...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Looking to June: Top 5 Priorities for Superintendents
This article is the first in a series, developed in partnership with Dr. Avossa, to help schools address pressing issues for their students now—and plan for ongoing uncertainty (and maybe even ...
Dr. Robert Avossa
Make Family Dinner a Priority
Family dinner and school success don’t seem to go together, at least not on the surface. But let me share a short story. At the school where I use to teach, the valedictorian one year was asked ...
Joshua M. Sneideman
The Oracle at Sacramento
2800 hundred years ago in Greece, a priestess named Pythia was famous throughout the ancient world for divining the future, and it is said no major decisions were made without consulting her fir...
Charles Sosnik
Pandemic Positives Made Permanent
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to ...
Jamie Bricker
2021: The Road Less Traveled
Now that the year 2020 is over, we should all breathe a sigh of relief. Most of us are hoping that a new year will bring a new, more positive chapter to our lives and those around us. Educators ...
Christy Martin, Ed.D.
Absent Without Leave: America’s Traditional K-12 Learners are Leaving, Costing Schools Hundreds of Millions in Their Wake
Our traditional K-12 students are begging out of attendance at record numbers, often with no notification whatsoever. It’s a trend that began years ago but has accelerated at blinding speed sinc...
Charles Sosnik
Education is about Relationships
This week I finished reading The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis again. His writings are lifetime favorites, and even though I know how the story goes I uncover something new with each read. At the ...
Tamara Fyke
Equity, Neuroscience and Cognitive Capacity
Editor’s Note: This is part four of a five-part series. In the fourth article in our series, we turn to the contribution that neuroscience research can make to address equity in educat...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Pandemic Principals Provide Perspective
This is the latest in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to work through them...
Jamie Bricker
By Definition: Real K12 Leadership Now
Really good leaders have uncanny abilities to do true estimates of what it takes to win. That is what defines a consistent winner and therefore great leader.
LeiLani Cauthen
Giving Thanks
Every year, I publish a column somewhere in the education press around the time of the Thanksgiving holiday with a “ What are You Thankful For” theme. During this time of COVID-19 and WFH a...
Charles Sosnik
Print Versus Digital: We Need Both
The Covid-19 pandemic and rapid shift to remote learning have brought forward discussions that have been occurring on the periphery or in the background, at least, for several years. Is there st...
Cinnamon Scheufele
Our Virtual Journey - Lessons Learned
Like many school districts across the nation, the decision to open our doors virtually for students in grades 3-12 was heartbreaking. We had been working throughout the summer on variations of a...
Rita Mortenson
Looking Beyond the Pandemic: We Need a Change in Attitude
Our nation is suffering from a labor shortage. Most especially, in the area of trades and unskilled labor. As a nation, we have encouraged our youth to go to college and seek the higher echelons...
Christy Stephens Martin, Ed.D.
The Upside of All This
You can see an upside of what is happening in America, in Education, in the World, if you know some of How Things Work. Specifically, you might ask, what things? Well, things that indicate a di...
LeiLani Cauthen
The New Role of Educators During and After COVID-19
The global pandemic has disrupted just about every facet of our lives. COVID-19 is testing our patience in slowing down and staying put. It tests and continues to test our combined ability to si...
Ryan L Schaaf
When Life Gives You Lemons
To say this has been a crazy year is an understatement. Like you, our team has been trying our best to stay ahead of the curve and make adjustments to keep up with the ever-changing needs of our...
LeiLani Cauthen
How This Education Research Publisher Transformed Itself In The Wake Of The Pandemic
Last year, I wrote about LeiLani Cauthen, CEO of the Learning Counsel, in a piece entitled How This Entrepreneur Discovered An Inevitable Problem And Turned It Into An Opportunity . Cauthen i...
Robyn D Shulman
The Future Because of the Past
What’s to become of learning from what we have learned during the COVID-19 crisis? It’s a struggle for anyone who sees patterns to communicate them adequately. One always sounds like they are ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Making Adjustments to the Normal Routine
Like all of us, over the past few weeks I have been monitoring the CoVid-19 pandemic and making adjustments to my daily routine for both work and home. What I’ve noticed in these first few days ...
Tamara Fyke
Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button
The current public education system has stagnated. The information and technology explosion has exposed a behemoth that is not able to pivot and adapt. Without massive action, the United States ...
Matt Ridenour
The K-12 Business Model: How to Innovate in an Ever-Changing Learning Environment
Each fall, teachers will get a new sea of smiling faces in their classrooms. Almost no other industry operates under this unique business model, where each year your audience is replaced with a ...
Steve Halliwell and Cheryl Miller
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
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
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
Disruption: The Sum of the Effect
Here is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of The Consumerization of Learning . "What’s the sum of all this semi-invisible disruptive force known generally as the technology transition running ov...
LeiLani Cauthen, Author, The Consumerization of Learning
Change, Software and the Sea
There are plenty of lofty goals to achieve greatness with Ed-Tech in classrooms and schools. There are plenty of good products to contribute to the overall goals. What’s most missing is someon...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
An Interview with Doug Robertson, Author of "He's the Weird Teacher"
The Learning Counsel had the honor and pleasure of interviewing Doug Robertson, 5 th grade teacher, author, blogger and educational champion extraordinaire. In our interview we discussed his bo...
Troy Starr, Learning Counsel Writer
The Overweight Education Structure
It occurred to me recently that, in all the Learning Counsel’s talking with schools about the real issue being structure as the preeminent change to make in digital transition, we ought to be ...
LeiLani Cauthen, Publisher
The Problem with Education’s Problems: (Part 2) Still Losing Students
Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. As stated in the first article, if the problem that is a...
LeiLani Cauthen
5 Silver Linings in Education After the Pandemic
School is back in session for the 2022-2023 school year, and we are about to embark on a new journey. For most students and teachers, it’s been two long years of transitions, significant cha...
Robyn D. Shulman
Is School Necessary?
I remember hearing this question spoken in an interview about five years ago, and it almost knocked me out of my chair. Having grown up in public school, attended a state institution of higher...
Charles Sosnik
8 Ways We Can Improve Schools Today for A Better Future Tomorrow
Can we change the trajectory of school? Right now, most school districts are trying to develop an effective plan for the ongoing return of students and the continuing lack of teachers. Prepari...
Robyn Shulman
What Does the Metaverse Mean for Education?
The last two years have accelerated the evolution of our digital lives – to the point that life in the digital world and life in the physical world are one in the same. Educators and students me...
Lance Huang
How SEL Supports STEM Learning
From coding robots to 3D printing, STEM subjects can be challenging, exciting, and intellectually stimulating. They can also prepare students for various career paths, equipping them with concr...
Amanda Vaden
AI and Education: What are the Goals?
In our lifetimes, the most important technological advancements may arguably include cellular phones, the internet, and digital payments, each revolutionizing how we communicate, access infor...
Kiran Kodithala
Ch, Ch, Changes: Turn and Face the Change
When I was a little girl, I remember the anticipation and frustration around Daylight Savings Time. It marked the end of the school year nearing, but it also meant that my brother and I were goin...
Tamara Fyke
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
