Featured Articles
Best Practices for AI Upskilling: Four Culture Building Strategies
As AI continues to grow in acceptance and use in the workplace the need for AI upskilling has become essential for employers who want to leverage the power of these new and exciting tools. Ho...
Marc Booker, Ph.D.
Three steps to a robust zero-trust architecture for K-12 schools this academic year
As the buzz around back-to-school season subsides and teachers and students fall into the rhythm of a new academic year, it’s time for K-12 administrators and district leaders to turn their a...
Charlie Sander
Reimagining the Paraeducator Role to Strengthen Special Education
I’ve spent my career working in and alongside special education teams, and I’ve never seen the need for paraeducator support as urgent as it is today. While districts around the country are f...
Dr. Kathleen Adolt-Silva
If Jan Brady Were in Middle School Now
Anyone who grew up watching "The Brady Bunch" remembers Jan's exasperated cry: "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" The quintessential middle child, overshadowed and forgotten. ...
Dr. Kara Stern
CRAFT is the New STEM Converse
In the newly human-first era where automation, globalization, and digital abstraction are still reshaping our economy and culture, research and trends show it’s time for K–12 schooling to piv...
LeiLani Cauthen
The Great Digital Convergence: AI + Digital Literacy What School Principals Must Know for 2026
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Ernie Delgado
Why We Need AI and The Problem Of Data
Education is a uniquely human enterprise where ROI is measured by student success.
Roland Antoine
9 Vectors of AI Getting to The Root of Learning Innovation
Education has always been fertile ground for innovation. From redesigned classrooms to digital platforms, reformers continually search for new ways to reach every child. Too often, change is ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Human Intelligence Characteristics
This is Chapter 7 from the book, The Human Singularity Many people are trying to define what humans have for intelligent characteristics that machines do not. Unfortunately, they are mostly pe...
LeiLani Cauthen
Screenless AI Is the Literacy Innovation We Didn’t See Coming
The first 1,000 days last a lifetime. Those first three years are when a child’s brain builds the pathways for language, learning, and connection. Miss that window and it becomes much harder ...
Jeff Piontek
Omni-AI can Take the Factory Model to Efficient Learning Ecosystem – Saving at least $40B a Year
K–12 education in the United States is still largely executed through a factory model, with the teacher as the central decision hub. Every teacher is expected to plan lessons across academic ...
LC Staff
AI & the K–12 National Revenue & Rising Bond Dependence: When Will the Indebted Model Shift?
The U.S. K–12 school system now commands nearly $880 billion in annual revenue from local, state, and federal sources. But despite the size of this financial base, districts are strapped: the...
LC Staff
The Fear That Had No Proof
It was 1973 and time for my first expository writing experience in third grade. Narrative writing, stories, were easy, even enjoyable. Things were about to get complicated as sources beyond m...
Roland Antoine
Empty Desks Are Data: What Chronic Absenteeism Is Really Telling Us
Imagine this: You catch a ski lift on a clear, cold morning. You ascend the mountain slowly, legs swinging, taking in the sights, elbowing the friend sitting next to you. As you get to the to...
Dr. Kara Stern
The True Human Learning Paradigm is Not Whole Group – And AI will let us Escape to It
For over a century, schooling has been organized around the industrial model of whole-group instruction. One teacher, one classroom, one lesson delivered to 25 or more students at the same pa...
LeiLani Cauthen
Ethical AI: The Alignment Issue
Until now, technological advancement has meant that as time progresses, the outcomes we can anticipate from technology improve: phones get smarter, cars self-drive, and computers run factorie...
Dr. Terri Smith
Attendance Starts with Connection: How One District is Tackling Chronic Absenteeism Through Better Communication
At our district, the chronic absenteeism crisis was a growing concern, fundamentally reshaping our priorities in K-12 education. We recognized that traditional, reactive approaches like maile...
Michelle Ryan and Dr. Vanessa Vaquerano
Rethinking Rigor in NGSS-Aligned Science Education
Rigor is less about right and wrong answers and more about fostering a supportive environment where teachers can be creative in their instruction.
Tessa Dagley
Tackling Chronic Absenteeism Through Better Communication
At our district, the chronic absenteeism crisis was a growing concern, fundamentally reshaping our priorities in K-12 education. We recognized that traditional, reactive approaches like maile...
Michelle Ryan and Dr. Vanessa Vaquerano
Making Screen Time Meaningful in the Digital Age
Screen time is a reality for every child, and instead of fighting it, educators should rethink how they use it to support creativity, connection, and mental health. Not all screen time is crea...
Danna Okuyama
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.
Addressing Crises in School Absenteeism, Staffing and Privacy: Using a human touch tech solution
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
