By Lori Jackson and Steve Peck If you’ve opened any education journal, read an online article, joined a PLC or participated in professional development in the last few years you’ve no doubt heard “growth mindset” discussed and debated. What is it? How can you teach it? Why do we need it? Can we test ...

  By LeiLani Cauthen What’s to become of learning from what we have learned during the COVID-19 crisis? It’s a struggle for anyone who sees patterns to communicate them adequately. One always sounds like they are spouting gibberish and insanely trying to predict the future. Actually, predicting the future always relies on some basic things ...

By Edgar Blunt   Earlier today I saw an email asking CEOs what they are doing to throw their employees a lifeline.  As a CEO, this topic warms my heart, but if I’m honest it’s only halfway heartwarming for me.  I pride myself on taking care of my team and for the first time in ...

Don’t go to jail for Ed-Tech. Quid pro quo dealing has serious consequences. By LeiLani Cauthen A number of organizations, some who are quasi-government entities and some who are for-profit companies, continue to create pay-to-play events in education. They pay superintendents to attend in a remarkable feat of unawareness of federal conflict-of-interest and bribery laws, ...

  By Mac Bogert   TANSTAAFL The industrial revolutions—mid 18th century, again in the early 19th century— arrived on waves of new technology. The invention of the steam engine and the sewing machine transformed work, but that’s not all—the technological bounce affected everything. For instance, concentrating population to aggregate workers in England was as transformational ...

  By Thom Markham   When I propose that it’s possible for teachers to transform education, usually I get pushback like this: “Teachers aren’t known as change agents; they complain but remain compliant even while disrespecting the system in which they work; they’re trained in instruction, not activism; inevitably, they will defend and deflect rather ...

  By Charles Sosnik The Learning Counsel conducts Digital Transition Discussion events regionally. At a recent event in our nation’s capital, an informal roundtable discussion was convened to identify the barriers teachers and administrators are facing as they move their districts along a continuum of digital transformation. “What we saw in every city this year ...

  At the Learning Counsel’s National Gathering in Dallas, three of the districts receiving top awards met in a panel to share their successes, their failures and their strategies for moving their districts along a digital transformation to enhance learning for every child. In this gathering of top award winners, the panelists stopped to reflect ...