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Thoughts

Social Media and Social Emotional Learning

When I lead professional development sessions for Love In A Big World , I always ask educators what is influencing the way our students see the world. Regardless of the grade level, the teacher...

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Ideas

Courage in the Face of Uncertainty

For some of us, school is just beginning. For others, we have been back at school for over a month. For all, we must agree that this academic year is already not what we had expected. We are sta...

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Share to Care

We Are Resilient

It’s back to school time. Amidst the growing concerns about the Delta variant, students, families and educators are heading back into the routine of daily in-person learning. The stress of healt...

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Thoughts

School and District Leaders: Practice Compassionate and Authentic Leadership (on Yourself)

We leaders are under tremendous pressure, not only to do the work of the organization but also to care for those who do the work alongside us. For that reason, our days are long, and the task li...

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Thoughts

The Real Key to Teacher Wellbeing and Ultimately, Retention

This past week I led a professional development session for some new teachers at a school with which I have been working for several years.  The Executive Principal and Assistant Principal also ...

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Perspective

Hey… Let’s Play

A few years ago, I took my youngest son and his friend to  Laser Quest . It’s the best laser tag place I know, full of two-story mazes covered in glow-in-the-dark paint. I had intended to sit an...

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Perspective

Uncertain Times

In June 2017 at the  #SEL Conference  in Nashville, TN, Tim Shriver stated in his keynote address, “We live in volatile, ambiguous, complex and uncertain times.” He unpacked this statement by ex...

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Thoughts

The Circle of Stress

Although we are entering into Year three of pandemic life, there have been some hidden blessings. One is the rising awareness of mental health. From social media to the morning news, everyone is...

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Ideas

Holiday Advice to get through the Holiday almost Stress-Free

Holidays can be stressful no matter your family. But what about families that don’t always get along? Whether it’s past tensions, differing opinions, or general annoyance of bringing the who...

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Thoughts

Why SEL is practical to integrate into 21st-century classrooms

Whether you are aware of it or not, you are teaching social-emotional learning (SEL). Your students are watching and learning from everything you do and say. They are learning how to deal w...

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Ideas

Making Use of the After School Window for Wellness

According to the Afterschool Alliance , 6 in 10 parents are more concerned about their children’s emotional wellbeing than they were before the pandemic. Friendships and social connections are...

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Thoughts

Finish the Year Strong

Spring Break. For students and teachers alike, this is a much needed rest from the rigors of the classroom before the final chapter of the school year. However, there is a tendency to return ...

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Thoughts

We Stand Together

I’m sure you have heard the news of the school shooting that occurred in our hometown of Nashville, TN. Our hearts are broken. And just the other week, my team spoke with a school system who ...

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Thoughts

Choosing to be Kind

“Be Kind, for everyone is fighting a great battle.” - Unknown Nice. I don’t like that word. I never have. It feels so vanilla…quite inauthentic. When I was a young girl and my mother tol...

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Thoughts

Cultivating Healthy Connections with Students

Over the past 25 years of working with administrators and teachers around SEL, the pushback has been “I don’t have time for that” or “I don’t know what to do” or “I’m not a school counselor.”...

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Thoughts

Ch, Ch, Changes: Turn and Face the Change

When I was a little girl, I remember the anticipation and frustration around Daylight Savings Time. It marked the end of the school year nearing, but it also meant that my brother and I were goin...

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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.

Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
K12 human resources are crucial to utilizing the cloud successfully. Roles and responsibilities have all changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, and a new trend to move to core co...
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missin...
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
Most administrators know there are still gaps remaining in their school or district’s digital transition. Recent studies including the 2021 Digital Transition Surveys for Administrators and Teache...
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and f...
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Seeing the Levels of Chaos Helps Anchor Bringing Order Schools and districts that recently lost 4 percent of students to alternatives continued to lose students in 2021 at an accelerated pace (no...
Hybrid Logistics Security
Your district is a brand, and your network security helps power its reputation. With the accelerated move to hybrid learning environments over the past year, school districts across the nation are...