About Us
The Learning Counselis a research institute and news media hub, focused on providing context for the shift in education to digital curriculum. Our membership is comprised of 215,000 Superintendents, tech and instructional administrators, curriculum specialists, thousands of publishers, and interested enthusiasts anywhere in the teaching and learning field.
The Learning Counsel was founded in 2014 by LeiLani Cauthen after she spotted and began writing about the tsunami of App confusion and complexity in education. Before long she had united a group of a few friends in schools, and some industry sponsors to produce live-discussions on the transition to digital curriculum. News spread, the discussions became larger events, more articles and information were demanded and the group expanded into a crowd, then a mob, and now a great movement threatening to spread worldwide.
Today the Learning Counsel puts on thirtyDigital Curriculum Discussionseach year across the U.S. and one Gathering and National Awards event to recognize leading schools and districts and share our annual research report findings on the education space.
As a national news outlet focused on digital curriculum strategy and tactics the Learning Counsel is a source of knowledge, research and reference for leaders to determine not only where they stand in the fray, but determine next steps and how to source companies, apps and tools they should be looking at to help them in their charge to transform their school or district. Our news is updated each week and can be found via our national newsletter on Tuesday, our EdSPOTLIGHT on Thursday featuring the fabulous people of education, or directly on our website.
KnowStory.com
The majority of income from Learning Counsel self-fundsbeplay取钱, a new social media concept now in beta version offered in a freemium model to the education world. As a social media site with discussion forums about “all the digital learning things,” KnowStory gives schools, students and teachers a way to discover, mix, rate and analyze their curriculum collections against changing government standards. Its most important patent-pending feature is “gap analysis” so that schools can aggregate teacher and institutional inventories out of the public forum into private analytics. Top educators are currently using KnowStory to hammer out the definitions of terms such as “character” versus “avatar” and what is meant by “gamification” inside courseware, and more.
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LeiLani Cauthen is well versed in the digital content universe, software development, the adoption process, school coverage models, and helping define this century’s real change to teaching and learning. She is an author and media personality with twenty years of research, news media publishing and market leadership in the high tech, education and government industries.
She concedes that delivering live lecture-style discussion events to contextualize high value digital learning objects instead of doing so online makes her the education industry’s “biggest hypocrite.” Nearly every week she is on the road meeting school Superintendents and their staffs and telling them about the Learning Counsel’s national research, traveling to 54 cities since February 2014. To her credit, the discussions have so energized the nation that her handful of friends has grown exponentially and many are demanding she finish her long-promised book about learning consumerization and the national educational challenge.
Testimonials
-- Max Clark, Assistant Superintendent - Curriculum & Finance, Clerk of Board of Education, Kingman-Norwich USD 331, Kansas
--Lindsey Cadenhead, Coordinator of Instructional Technology, Red Oak ISD, Red Oak, TX
-- Brian Gatens, Superintendent, Emerson Park, NJ
-- Jason Neuman - M.Ed: In. M., Instructional Technology Specialist - Technology & Information Service, Hernando County School District, FL
-- Cleon Franklin, Director of Virtual Learning at Shelby County Schools
--Adam D. Fried, Ed.D., Superintendent, Harrington Park, NJ
--Beatriz Arnillas, Senior Information Technology Manager, Houston ISD
-- John Connolly, Chief Technology Officer, Consolidated High School District 230, Chicago, IL
– Eric Godfrey, Superintendent, Buckeye Union High School District, Phoenix, AZ
-- Jamie Gansmann,
B.Ed, M.Ed, Regional VP, Amplify
— Janell McClure, Ed.S.
Director, Digital and Multimedia Learning
Cobb County School District
-- Leng Fritsche, Ph.D., Asst Supt - Student Assessment, Houston ISD