Featured Articles
Open Standards in the Education 4.0 Digital Learning Ecosystem
The current rate of change in digital learning offers great opportunities and introduces great challenges. The superior learning outcomes and high levels of career-readiness needed to satisfy th...
Robert Iskander
What Do You Mean by “Cognitive Capacity?”
We’ve been encountering the term “cognitive capacity” more and more often since we started to make the distinction between “cognitive ability” and “cognitive capacity” a few years ago. The reaso...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Remember the Good Old Days
Remember the good old days, before COVID changed our daily routines and sent our children home to have school with their parents or grandparents? Remember when things made sense, and you knew ...
Charles Sosnik
K-12 Guide to Building District Resilience: How to be High Performing through Foreseeable Disruptions
As we emerge from the pandemic, K-12 leaders are balancing the pull to return to normal with their recognized responsibility to learn and improve. They are asking how to mitigate future lear...
The LC Staff
Does Your School Need Online Cyber Safety Education?
Did you know that 400,000 kids per year are victims of identity theft? And many children are targeted by their peers via cyberbullying. Cyberbullies may even cross the line and venture into iden...
Pat Craven
Helping Students Get Back in the Swing of Things
Back-to-school time is usually a mix of nervousness and excitement. This year students may experience more anxiety than usual after 18 months of either distance or hybrid learning. In our desi...
Tamara Fyke
What the Summer’s Hottest PD Topics Reveal About Educators
What are the hottest topics for professional development in K-12 education over this extraordinary summer? As school districts across the nation prepare to return to in-person teaching, a snapsh...
Dr. Lynn Kepp
Millions of Students Missing: Now the Tough Grind, or Not
Facts about the national map of which district is “back to normal” and which isn’t are hard to put together, but the entirety of “normal” itself is in question. It’s also way-to-obviously being ...
LeiLani Cauthen
Solving the Teacher Shortage Can’t (by Itself) Solve the Learning Shortage
President Biden recently announced plans to fund efforts to address the shortage of teachers, a situation that has been building for many years and accelerated because of the pandemic. There is ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
The Survey Says… Big Tech Purchases with More Tech to Come: Looking Back to Look Forward
The U.S. K-12 sector spent $35.8 Billion in 2020 on all things EdTech, including hardware, major software systems, digital curriculum resources and networks, a healthy increase of $7.5 Billion o...
Charles Sosnik
How Distance Learning Tools Help Provide a Successful Teaching and Learning Experience
Virtual classrooms offer many possibilities when creating effective distance learning programs, for secondary and higher education as well as corporate learning environments. Education technolog...
Allen Drennan
Using SEL to support college and career readiness
We often hear employers and college recruiters talk about soft skills – those skills that go beyond technical knowledge about a job or academic test scores – and the importance of those skills...
Christine Nicodemus
What’s Your Learning Model?
The purpose of a learning model shift is to allow schools and teachers to retain relevancy, perhaps even supremacy, over fully consumer models available today, which by their very nature will be...
LeiLani Cauthen
What the Pandemic Taught Parents That Could Change Education for the Better
When teachers and students were forced to shift to remote learning during the pandemic, parents experienced plenty of angst. Could their children learn as well on a computer screen as they did...
Emily Greene
The New 70/30 Rule: 70% Will Get Us $72 Trillion
In Part One of this series , we envisioned a world where vastly greater numbers of students could improve their cognitive skills so that they score at the 70 th percentile or higher. Why th...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Classroom Collaboration: Privacy and Security
If the recent pandemic has taught educators anything, it's that privacy is paramount to the teacher, trainer and student user experience, especially when minors are involved. Not surprisingly, s...
Allen Drennan
How Education Can Get the Most Out of Technology
For more than 60 years, Singapore's schools have incorporated technology into their students’ day-to-day learning processes, setting the goal for them to develop competitive vocational skills....
Hugo Aguirre
High Tech Tells a Story
Technology is inescapable. Whether teaching and learning at home or at school, we rely on hardware and software to help us. Notice the words “help us.” Computers and systems are tools for us to ...
Tamara Fyke
Overcoming Critical Issues with Better Master Scheduling
Educational leaders are facing unprecedented times. These critical issues are pushing officials to make difficult decisions about teaching and learning, while leaving them wondering what the...
The LC Staff
The Case for Hybrid Logistics to Solve Inequity, Part 2: Letting Humans Be Human
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. Part one can he found here . The crux of the issue is that teaching is defined by nearly all traditional public schools as a ...
LeiLani Cauthen
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
