Featured Articles
Transforming Literacy Education in North Carolina
When I took office as North Carolina's State Superintendent of Public Instruction in January 2021, our state's literacy landscape resembled many others across the country. Three-cue...
Catherine Truitt
Grandparenting Children with and without Disabilities
Grandparent engagement is likely going to increase, given demographic trends. Longer life expectancy and changing family structures have expanded grandparents' roles in their grandchildren...
Dr. Coral PS Hoh
AI and The Renaissance of the Polymath Reflections On AI-Enhanced Integrative Thinking
THROUGHOUT human history, there have always been those rare individuals who defied the boundaries of specialized knowledge, excelling across multiple disciplines with a breadth and depth that...
Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker
AI and the Future of Community Colleges
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world around us, and education is no exception. As community college leaders, we must be at the forefront of this transformation, ensu...
Lee D. Lambert
Best Practices for Supporting AI Professional Development in Education
For over thirty years, I have conducted professional development for educators. I have recently created and presented dozens of AI presentations, workshops, and courses for K-12 districts and u...
Jerry Crisci
The Only Real Schooling Innovation Now That There’s AI
Now that there is AI on the scene, a new type of innovation is coming into play to change schooling America’s students. Yes, schooling is about to change, not just they paradigm of how classr...
LeiLani Cauthen
2025 Summer Reading List – Round 1
Learning Counsel is blessed to have many educator and technology industry friends who write interesting books. Here are our first recommendations for your Summer reading this year! Our own r...
LeiLani Cauthen
Fueling Student Curiosity Through Esports: Innovation in 21st-Century Learning
Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I have vivid memories of immersing myself in the world of Atari, Nintendo, and Gameboy. Back then, it felt like technology had transformed the lives of chil...
Dr. Greg Harrison
The Emergence of the Sentient Schooling Matrix by 2032
Most educators and indeed, consumers, are aware so far only of Generative AI. That’s because it is consumer-facing and we can directly interact with it. Generative AI is only the beginning, sha...
LeiLani Cauthen
Bringing Back the Phone Call: Making It Work for Schools Today
A 40 percent jump in parent responses to conference scheduling. That’s what our district saw after introducing a new cloud-based phone system built right into our school-home communications p...
Gary Lambert
Why Personalization and Student Agency Are the Future of Education
During my four decades of education research, I've witnessed educators face disruptive forces that have magnified existing challenges: today we have AI, we've had COVID, we've ...
Dr. Yang Zhao
What is Time AI?
Unlike typical scheduling tools, Time AI takes decision-making usually reserved for humans and automates it through dynamic, adaptive algorithms. The platform is more than just an intelligent...
LC Staff
We asked ChatGPT This and Found a New Administrative Imperative: Cognition, Connection & Care through Course-Building
We started by wondering what it means now that AI is on the scene as a source of information and knowledge for schooling. We posed a conjecture leading up to how it would change the teaching ...
LC Staff
Career-Ready Students: 3 Priorities for Successful CTE Programs
Schools and districts across the country are seeing a growing demand for career and technical education (CTE). CTE is such an important and beneficial way for students to become career ready....
Dusty Moore
The Power of Sports to Engage Students in STEM Learning
Educators constantly search for ways to engage students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). These subjects are foundational for preparing students for the future work...
Haley MacLean
Teaching Creativity, Collaboration, and even Self-Confidence with Robots
Our students are growing into a world where they will find themselves sharing their space, work, and lives with more and more robots. More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s u...
Hunter McConnell
Schools Need to Quit these Assumptions
Something much bigger is happening in America than leaders in education are even considering. It’s a vast shift awaiting a new structure to the form of schooling which is inhibited by old ass...
LeiLani Cauthen
What's New in Child Care Legislation and Policy
Early care and education (ECE) is finally receiving the attention it has long deserved as a major public discourse topic. It is now widely recognized as a bipartisan issue, with both sides agre...
Jamee Herbert
Common Phrases, Not Fancy Words, Make You Sound More Fluent in a Foreign Language
Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research suggests that there is a close relationship between formulaic expression ...
Kotaro Takizawa and Shungo Suzuki
Why Most Students Now Need Tier 2 Support—and Why Comprehensive Integrated Cognitive Training Is the Core
In schools across the country, the number of students struggling to meet grade-level expectations has increased following the pandemic and has not responded as hoped. While Tier 2 interventio...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
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
