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Reopening Schools but Emptier, Physically Distanced, and still some Remote Students - The State of K12 Schools in America
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Reopening Schools but Emptier, Physically Distanced, and still some Remote Students - The State of K12 Schools in America

We need to talk about the state of K12 schooling in America. It’s a different world now. The Learning Counsel’s major Digital Transition Survey showed our first data in October 2020 of the natio...

LeiLani Cauthen

5 Recommendations for Administrators in 2021: The New Normal is Not Traditional Schooling, it’s Logistics
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5 Recommendations for Administrators in 2021: The New Normal is Not Traditional Schooling, it’s Logistics

The Learning Counsel’s Digital Transition Survey 2020 posed many questions aimed at discovering the transition tactics of schools. What was found indicates that most schools consider they are fu...

LeiLani Cauthen

Tech Spending Predictions for America’s Schools in 2021, Amid Enrollment Losses
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Tech Spending Predictions for America’s Schools in 2021, Amid Enrollment Losses

EdTech spend is expected to increase by $2.4 billion in 2021, up from $35.8 billion to $38.2 billion. 2020 spend by America’s K12 schools was captured by the Learning Counsel’s Digital Transit...

LeiLani Cauthen

Putting KnowledgeWorks’ Strategy Guide to Work for Your Organization
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Putting KnowledgeWorks’ Strategy Guide to Work for Your Organization

Editor’s note: This is part one in a three-part series.   Between the breakneck speed of technology’s advance and tectonic shifts in the job market, educators and learners can feel overwh...

Katherine Prince

Schools Say Highest Pressure Stems from Their Students’ Social and Emotional Needs
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Schools Say Highest Pressure Stems from Their Students’ Social and Emotional Needs

Exclusive findings from the latest Learning Counsel Survey

LeiLani Cauthen

Developing the Human Co-Intelligences to Balance AI
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Developing the Human Co-Intelligences to Balance AI

Learning Counsel research shows a marked need to advocate for schools developing all nine human intelligences instead of focusing largely on just two: mathematical-logical and linguistic. ...

LC Staff

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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...