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Learning Counsel flash internet seminars are designed to be rapid researched-based professional development for education executives and administrators. Leaders in edtech and district and school transformation share their experience, best-practices and tools on how they are making the shift.

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Leading Through a Pandemic: What Have We Learned?

  We can say this past year was a year of lessons, often taught in rapid succession. In the case of Dr. Lori J. Simon, Superintendent of the Rapid City Area Schools, these lessons helped to in...

Where Do We Go from Here?

  At Warroad Public Schools, everyone wears a lot of hats. Instead of departments full of people, they have people who run a lot of departments. For example, the high school principal is the p...

Minnesota - Local Panel of Administrators: “Our Digital Transition”

  For many of our attendees, it’s their favorite part of our digital transition discussion events. This local panel of educators features the region’s (and often the nation’s) brightest and be...

Finding the Mix, Modern Curriculum That Meets the Challenges of All Learning Models for All Learners

  In this Hybrid Learning Discussion, Paul Henn, Director of Learning Services at New Ulm Public Schools addresses Finding the Mix, Modern Curriculum That Meets the Challenges of All Learning...

Minnesota - Motivation Discussion with Featured Educator

  Dr. Joe Sanfelippo is the Superintendent at the Fall Creek School District. In this Featured Educator Open Discussion, Sanfelippo talks about what leaders can do to amplify voices and everyt...

Minnesota - Solve Your Top Three Digital Learning Challenges: Access, Engagement, and Rostering

  The Learning Counsel created our Lunch and Learn series as a way to introduce companies, products and services that America’s school districts and independent schools need to be familiar wit...

Minnesota - Everything Changed: “Using Space & Time Today and Hybrid Logistics Best Practices”

  Public education is changing rapidly, beginning with who is really attending public schooling. Even before the pandemic, 27 percent of school-aged children did not attend traditional public ...

Innovating to Keep Schools Open During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Not every school district in America closed their doors and went remote for an extended period of time. In fact, Muskego-Norway Schools opened this past Fall, and given the opportunity to at...

Successful Planning and Implementation of a K-12 Digital Learning Environment

  In the first part of our video, you’ll meet Tim Beekman, President and Co-Founder at SAFARI Montage, a highly recommended resource referred to you by the Learning Counsel. According to Beekm...

Northeast - Digital Experience Standards: “New Model of Instructional Design and Dictionary Definitions Workshop”

  In the first part of our video, LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher at the Learning Counsel News Media and Research, explains the new financial realities of the EdTech world. By all accounts,...


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