Learning Counsel Report Podcast
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago -Context on K-12’s education’s imperatives from the most connected K12 thought leader in education. Each podcast offers interviews of executives in education or the ed-tech industry, research from the Learning Counsel and the renowned insights of LeiLani Cauthen, who has been helping define this century’s real change to teaching and learning from a deep understanding of our schools and innovations in computing and learning software for over twenty-five years.
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Pushed into 1-to-1? What’s next for successful programs?
December 15, 2020 17:20 - 26 minutes - 26.8 MBLeiLani discusses with Justin Reilly, the CEO of Impero, a missing ingredient for managing the sudden mass deployments of devices by K12 schools. Student safety, but more importantly, the well-being of students socially and emotionally, has a new guardian with advanced mobile device management software. Reilly’s comments about what’s imperative now that schools are still mostly hybrid or remote learning are particularly timely. It’s not enough to create a connection to learning, vigilance by...
Science Learning from Anywhere
November 12, 2020 18:49 - 23 minutes - 20.6 MBDo you want to be thoroughly impressed about cross-curricular STEM learning remotely? Anika Chebrolu, a 14-year-old, won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge and was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2020. She found a molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in an attempt to find a cure for the pandemic. Programs for schools from Discovery Education combine these sorts of challenges with world-class STEM learning. Hear the discussion with Beth Meyer...
Recovery from a Lost Year of Reading Achievement
November 09, 2020 16:40 - 38 minutes - 36.7 MBTens of thousands of school leaders are realizing they may have lost a year of progress with students. LeiLani discusses with Dr. Liz Brooke, Chief Learning Officer at Lexia and Felecia Evans, Principal at Lander Elementary School, Mayfield Heights, OH, what to do about realigning student learning amidst ongoing alternate schedules including on-campus, remote and hybrid learning. As educators come out of the fog of issuing millions of devices and making sure students have connectivity, they ...
Now is the Future of Teaching
October 12, 2020 23:44 - 26 minutes - 24.8 MBLeiLani discusses with guest, Marty Reed of RANDA Solutions, the mass attrition of teachers during this historic perfect storm of Covid-19. Educator frustrations with remote teaching, and a lack of elevation of the profession up to the digiverse has magnified the already crisis level issue of teacher retention. Marty’s take on teacher free agentry changes the entire dynamics of teaching. By creating an ecosystem around teacher licensure, intellectual property, professional learning and c...
Avatar A.I. Helping Hybrid Learning
October 05, 2020 19:35 - 24 minutes - 23.6 MBLeiLani and Lewis Johnson of Alelo discuss avatars used with artificial intelligence for asynchronous teaching and professional development. A technology that has been around for awhile in the corporate sector and military is now coming to the rescue in education to create engagement and efficiencies. This technology is set to help teachers teach with more engagement and an iterative process where they can update an avatars response based on how students are learning, perfecting trainings...
Education Tech Chaos
September 29, 2020 16:33 - 27 minutes - 21.7 MBLeiLani Cauthen discusses the general education tech chaos with Tricia Kennedy, Exec Dir., Instructional Development and Support, Gwinnett County Public Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. Kennedy has been the leader for many years worth of preparedness to have a fully integrated learning ecosystem so that total chaos was never evident for them in America’s March 2020 move to quarantines with all schools shutting down. While other school’s when into hyper-drive, Kennedy’s chaos was minimal. With...
The Lost Learning Year: Intelligent Recommendations
September 15, 2020 18:47 - 32 minutes - 31 MBLeiLani discusses recent findings by researchers Dr. John Bielinski and Dr. Kyle Wagner at Illuminate Education on the effect quarantines and remote learning have had on K-8 learning outcomes. Schools working through remote learning transitions have focused on engagement but the data indicates that there is a clear hierarchy of needs and educators will need the tools to pinpoint risk quickly and make a recovery plan.
A Story about PODS
August 12, 2020 21:10 - 25 minutes - 24 MBIn this EduJedi Report Podcast, LeiLani talks about PODS, the new trend in homeschooling-tied-to-schools. With the advent of the pandemic, a scenario she first talked about in her book, The Consumerization of Learning, is coming true. She reads a purely fictional account of a student’s journey in a POD from the last chapters of her book, giving a glimpse into the future.
Looking Back Before Looking Forward
July 31, 2020 20:23 - 37 minutes - 29.4 MBGuests, Dr. Travis Taylor, Instructional Technology Specialist from Little Rock School District, Arkansas, and Berj Akian, CEO of ClassLink, have a lively conversation about one of the biggest organizational conundrums for schools as quarantines went into effect and how to better prepare for the future. Dr. Taylor shares how Little Rock is using single sign-on and analytics to bring order to remote learning in an evolving digital landscape. LeiLani Cauthen, CEO, the Learning Counsel is the...
Looking back before looking forward
July 31, 2020 20:23 - 37 minutes - 29.4 MBGuests, Dr. Travis Taylor, Instructional Technology Specialist from Little Rock School District, Arkansas, and Berj Akian, CEO of ClassLink, have a lively conversation about one of the biggest organizational conundrums for schools as quarantines went into effect and how to better prepare for the future. Dr. Taylor shares how Little Rock is using single sign-on and analytics to bring order to remote learning in an evolving digital landscape. LeiLani Cauthen, CEO, the Learning Counsel is the...
Educational Tech Chaos
July 30, 2020 13:30 - 26 minutes - 20.8 MBIn this podcast, LeiLani and Tricia Kennedy, Executive Director of Instructional Development and Support, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia discuss the complexity of digital delivery. LeiLani asks, “Have you started to think about other areas in terms of where this could go with space and time scheduling? (Schools are) not necessarily automated in the structure of execution. They're still class and teacher centric…teachers are scheduling zoom meetings over each other. They're scheduli...
New Norms of Hybrid Professional Development
July 29, 2020 20:53 - 32 minutes - 27.1 MBGuests Tyce Miller, the CEO of Mobilemind and Sarah Porisch, Director of Technology, Brainerd Public Schools, discuss what’s happening now with teaching the teachers. Where schools once had those eight-hour days of intensive professional development, training is now shifting to on-demand and highly personalized through advanced technology. The talk focused on the success from Minnesota, and how Sarah helped lead change with all their teachers becoming immersed in how to use technology succ...
Remote Learning in the Hot Zone - NY School District
June 03, 2020 00:09 - 21 minutes - 17.6 MBWhat’s it been like to transition to digital remote learning in one of our nation’s hot zones? One district with a “Keep Learning, Don’t Miss Out” motto made every day in quarantines count.
Digital Instruction Design is Different and Getting More Different
May 28, 2020 21:03 - 21 minutes - 16.5 MBLeilani and Sakon discuss what is happening with the intersection of regular instructional design and the new digital instructional design paradigm with one of the nation’s preeminently qualified UI/UX and instructional design experts found tucked away in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), Sakon Kieh. In this podcast, Sakon and LeiLani discuss what’s happened with the national COVID-19 crisis and how design is different, and getting more different.
Let’s Not Screw Up this Stimulus for Education
May 11, 2020 23:00 - 32 minutes - 23.3 MBLeiLani 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 new CARES Act Stimulus intention. Many important comments are made regarding caveats for schools and district’s to consider. On superintendents just using the Stimulus to save jobs, Dr. Nemko stated: “It’s going to kind of work itself out. I do believe there are a lot of teachers who are not going to want to com...
What Really Happened with Quarantine & Education
April 29, 2020 20:56 - 28 minutes - 22.9 MBLeiLani Cauthen and Senator Howard Stephenson of Utah discuss concerns about the sudden shift of all schools to remote learning, and what it really means for the future. Just one of Stephenson’s great comments: “The thing you need to focus on is those tools that provide immediate interactive, adaptive feedback while the student is doing the work. It's not about PDFs online. It's not about worksheets.”