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Leadership and Fiction

STORIES ARE ABOUT THE AUTHOR What we often call history is really stories. We can find out when Fort Sumpter was fired on (1861) and when Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gra...

Mac Bogert

Never is a Long, Long Time

Never in the history of EdTech, Education or Technology have we seen the amount of investment rumble into K-12 education. Daily, I am reading articles about record investment or new, newer or ne...

Charles Sosnik

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

Student Data and PII – Your Need to Know

This article is about the gravity of personally identifiable information as it relates to any and all student and minor populations. We can look at the current governance, what is planned, a...

Robert Iskander

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Consent is fast becoming a dirty word in the digital world. Online operators are struggling to meet the demands of the ePrivacy Directive, the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF 2.0) and Ap...

Claire Quinn and Celeste Rollason

Turn Your Website into Your Best Employee With Growth-Driven Design

One of my favorite strategies in our toolkit at PR With Panache! is Growth-Driven Design (GDD), a relatively new approach to website design and marketing. Developed by HubSpot’s Luke Summerfield...

Benjamin Bachman

Threat Horizon for Schools

There is still a lot of money from not one, not two, but three enormous stimulus bills putting schools awash with funding right now. Word to the wise: spending on the old traditional schooling...

LeiLani Cauthen

It’s a Busy Time in Education Biz

There are so many great things going on in the Education industry. In fact, it seems there is no such thing as an average week anymore; each one is exciting and bursting at the seams with activi...

Charles Sosnik

Monotasking: The Pleasure of Taking Pains

Employees come to work with the faster and shorter is better default setting primed. They've passed numerous fast-food establishments, exceeded the speed limit and probably gotten upset because...

Mac Bogert

Creating a Winning CX in Education

The education industry was already in the throes of digital disruption—but no student, teacher, or institution had prepared for a pandemic coming. Yet as billions of students around the world we...

Robert Iskander

Want to Make the Sale? Tell Them a Story

Some things never change. In sales, a quality presentation never goes out of style. And part of that presentation includes storytelling. Telling a good story can be the difference between this: ...

Charles Sosnik

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

Leadership and Resistance

To my readers, I say thanks. We have such an opportunity right now to shift our understanding of leadership, not merely in the workplace, but in everything we do. Be well, and I hope this provi...

Mac Bogert

Four Steps to Building Education Thought Leadership

Use your personal brand to propel your company’s mission.

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The Biggest School Pressures

  Understanding the pressures that drive educators is the first step in anticipating their needs. In this industry-focused webinar delivered by Learning Counsel CEO and Publisher LeiLani Cauth...

The LC Staff

The Word of the Day

There is a very strong theme running through every conversation I have had over the last several weeks. I don’t know whether someone has put something in the water supply, there is mass hypnosis...

Charles Sosnik

Cookies, Consent & Children Prove a Challenge

Consent is fast becoming a dirty word in the digital world. Online operators are struggling to meet the demands of the ePrivacy Directive, the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF 2.0) and Ap...

Claire Quinn and Celeste Rollason

Leadership: The Listener and the Talker

“MOST PEOPLE DO NOT LISTEN WITH THE INTENT TO UNDERSTAND, THEY LISTEN WITH THE INTENT TO REPLY." --Steven Covey   Colin Smith and I meet, virtually, every few weeks and talk about poli...

Mac Bogert

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

The Case for Hybrid Logistics to Solve Inequity

Editor’s note: This is part one of a two part series. First of all, hybrid logistics is a trending thing. Hybrid is the new word for schools that are delivering live teaching for students ...

LeiLani Cauthen


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