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Opinion: What We Need are Community Schools
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Opinion: What We Need are Community Schools

Students are suffering Our highest poverty districts are suffering. Schools are essentially closed in these districts, and students are struggling with online models, sketchy Internet access...

Christy Martin, Ed.D.

Opinion: It is Time for Real Change – and That Change is Long Overdue
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Opinion: It is Time for Real Change – and That Change is Long Overdue

Our school calendar, based on factors that are long gone, is one of the most antiquated things that still exists in schools. We are no longer hampered by the agriculture calendar that was necess...

Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.

Our Nation’s Education System Created the Greatest Generation. Can We Create the Smartest Generation as Well?
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Our Nation’s Education System Created the Greatest Generation. Can We Create the Smartest Generation as Well?

In modern history, during times of national crises our state and national governments deployed educational support and funding systems designed to eliminate racial and economic inequity within o...

Dr. Kenneth W. Eastwood

Expanding the Future of History
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Expanding the Future of History

Recent politics has brought the teaching of United States History to the forefront. Politicians on one side advocate the teaching of patriotism and the greatness of those involved in shaping our...

Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.

Out-of-the-Box Thinking Is So Five Minutes Ago
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Out-of-the-Box Thinking Is So Five Minutes Ago

“Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand Whose wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine? Must have been a dream I don't believe where I have been Come on, let's do it again.” ...

Charles Sosnik

It’s Time to Release Control in Education
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It’s Time to Release Control in Education

For years we have debated the role of technology in education. Given the pandemic, we are inarguably here, embracing a new reality of K-12 education. Districts have been scrambling to provide de...

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
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...
Hybrid Logistics Security
Your district is a brand, and your network security helps power its reputation. With the accelerated move to hybrid learning environments over the past year, school districts across the nation are...