By LeiLani Cauthen Editor’s Note: This is part one of a three-part series   A majority of schools are still acting like everything is totally normal in education. The fact is, prior to the pandemic, everything seemed normal in most schools, the same schedule, grades-by-age batches and structure of the last hundred years. This structure includes ...

  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 ...

Listen to the latest episode of the EduJedi Report podcast   Host LeiLani Cauthen and Dr. Barbara Nemko, Napa County Superintendent of Schools, Napa County Office of Education in California discuss what the ARRA Stimulus of 2009 did compared to the intention of the new CARES Act. Many important comments are made regarding caveats for ...

  By LeiLani Cauthen Ivory Soap?  Yes, but first courage and cowardice points leading to one of the great stories that New York’s famed Mad Men helped spawn back in the Great Depression.  Courage is a confidence of reaching out, rushing toward whatever it is that needs to be attacked and overcome, accompanied by an assumption of ...

  By LeiLani Cauthen   There is a certain sector of tech companies and big investment houses touting that things for schools are “not coming back to normal.”  They are right in one respect, but wrong in a much larger respect. Let’s get into the tech company mindset, which is largely made up of engineering ...

By LeiLani Cauthen Schools, Districts and companies selling to them have questions, and forebodings. There are two lines of thought: In the Fall, things will get back to normal. Then in about eighteen months, budget cuts are coming for K12 everywhere, with the exception of approximately $13.5 Billion coming in the new CARES Act stimulus. ...

  By LeiLani Cauthen   Schools and districts are calling the Learning Counsel asking for advice on what to do given they must shut down.  We’ve developed this questionnaire so you can quickly analyze the direction to go – and call us for the list of appropriate resources you’ll need. We’ve mentioned many in our ...

  By LeiLani Cauthen   Nearly every school district in America is seeing some degree of student attrition. Except for cases of rapid population growth or regional migration, traditional public schools are witnessing a phenomenon unseen in our lifetimes. Families are just saying “No” to the public classroom experience and instead are opting for homeschooling, ...