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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/15/23 - 5/21/23

CT to combat teacher shortage with $3M for recruitment, support – By Jessica Harkay, CT Mirror State officials announced Tuesday a $3 million initiative focused on the hiring and train...

Doug Cauthen

News Clip

Weekly NewsBriefs 7/29/24 - 8/4/24

More NH families than ever are opting into school choice, prompting questions about how to measure success - by Sarah Gibson, NHPR Melissa Johnston used to send her four kids to neighb...

Doug Cauthen

App of the Week

A definitive resource to separate fact from fiction within the science of reading

The Reading League Compass is a comprehensive platform designed to provide direction to stakeholders and decision-makers so they can make informed decisions about the science of rea...

Doug Cauthen

App of the Week

A Professional Learning Course for Elementary Educators Based in the Science of Reading

Many educators and education leaders are not well prepared to teach reading, or lead those who teach reading. The Lexia LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) Suite prov...

Doug Cauthen

Industry News

Lexia Announces Science of Reading Week 2024

WHAT: Four days of no-cost webinars for school and district leaders, preK-12 teachers, librarians, and education technology leaders interested in the science of reading WHEN: Monday, Mar...

Doug Cauthen

Industry News

Most Parents Think It’s Important to Implement the Science of Reading, But Few Say Their Child’s School Does

Third annual parent survey from Lexia also reveals that parents want to see more reading-specific technologies in their child’s school, and they support the use of AI by students and teachers

Doug Cauthen

Industry News

Lexia Announces Literacy Leader Week: Dyslexia, Equity, Inclusion, and the Science of Reading

WHAT: Webinars for K-12 school and district leaders WHEN: Tuesday, October 8 – Thursday, October 10; 12 PM – 1 PM ET REGISTER: https://home.edweb.net/literacyleaderweek2024 B...

Doug Cauthen

Ideas

Making Science of Reading Stick: 7 Lessons for Transforming K-12 Literacy

I started my career as a special education teacher in the 1980s and taught students how to read using science-of-reading concepts—although we didn’t refer to it in that way back then. When I ...

Janine Walker-Caffrey

Ideas

Making Phonics Fun: Engaging Approaches for Modern Classrooms

Developing strong phonics skills in the early grades is essential for students to become fluent, independent readers. The science of reading shows us that when children know the letters of th...

Cheryl Lundy Swift

Featured Papers

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

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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...