Featured Articles
Education Transformation End-Point: The Age of Experience
Where are we headed, anyway? What is the end-point of the digital transformation for K-12 education? The Learning Counsel has been in fifteen metro areas so far in 2014 meeting with public an...
LeiLani Cauthen
Five Key Lessons in Common Core Readiness
As students complete the first round of high-stakes tests aligned with the Common Core standards, what can school and district leaders learn from the process that can help them better prepare fo...
Dennis Pierce
Transitioning to Online Curriculum in Central Texas
If some educators feel that transformation is minimizing their craft, here’s a fresh look at taking the classroom back with digital and online curriculum
Mike Saenz
Tech and Why Teaching Writing is Critical for Reading
As teachers and schools address transitioning to digital, it's important to seize the chance to upgrade teaching and learning. Enhanced writing skill is one way to speed greater achievement
Dr. Marion Blank
STEM and Project Based Learning, a Perfect Pair!
PBL develops the critical thinking and problem solving skills that Common Core State Standards emphasize and that students need for success in college, career, and life.
Emily Garner Sumner
The Learning Counsel Awards the Alabama State Board of Education's ALEX Program
Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required. At the January 14, 2015 Alabama State Board of Education Meeting, Dr. David Kafitz, Vice President of School Relations and Consultin...
Cebron Walker
Catching At-Risk Students
Virtual Learning Prepares High Schoolers for Graduation and Life
Dennis Pierce
Read. Grow. Repeat.
How one school district in Georgia is creating motivated readers and learners through their strategy for digital transformation—and saving significant time and money in the process
Teri Harris
Top 10 U.S. Schools to Win Awards for Moving to Digital Curriculum
The Learning Counsel and T-Mobile honor these schools and districts for advancing digital content in their schools and communities
LeiLani Cauthen
Boredom in the Classroom—An Education Crisis
New video based digital curriculum, powered by leading edge learning dynamics, is helping to make K-12 education equitable for all students
Cebron Walker
Science, the First Digital Learning Frontier
Is NGSS the perfect launch point for districts into all digital curriculum and content?
Dr. Lundon Jackson
Facing Down the Learning Content Disruption
K-12 Schools and Higher Ed Institutions are Facing Down Serious Disruption in Learning Content—Going from Paper to Digital in All Things
David Kafitz
Coffee Chat with Memphis
The Learning Counsel (The LC) conducts virtual coffee chats with school leaders to discuss what’s happening with their use of digital curriculum. A well-known industry leader, Cleon Franklin o...
The LC Staff
A Few Words
Does Your School Organizational Chart Prevent Success Transitioning to Digital?
David Kafitz
How BIG is the K-12 Digital Curriculum Market?
With so many schools in transition, executives want to know what others are doing with digital curriculum. The question of what, how much of it, and more is being answered – from definitions to market size
LeiLani Cauthen
School Risk of Plagiarism in Creating your own Digital Curriculum
In the rush to create digital materials, are teachers possibly plagiarizing copyrighted works? Just what is plagiarism? An excellent understanding can be found here at Plagiarism.org . Teac...
The LC Staff
Education Compared to All Other Industry
Let’s add some perspective to, say, Education as an industry compared with All Other Industry. Here is Education in one corner with a ratio of 49% administration to 51% actual instructional st...
LeiLani Cauthen
Checklist of Top 10 Benchmarks for Instructional Materials
How do you know you have quality digital learning content? This question could be made incredibly complex, but luckily people in-the-know have given ten simple guidelines
The LC Staff
We Need New Words for Digital Curriculum
Digital Curriculum is a lot of things, but what it has yet to achieve is an agreed-upon set of words describing what it is and does to give it more context of what’s happening with it in schools today
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
