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Learning Counsel Report Podcast
by LeiLani Cauthen | Author, Futurist, CEO Learning Counsel News & Knowstory
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.
Episodes
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From Pop-Culture to Classrooms: Driving Student Engagement Through Stories
With the release of Supergirl creating a flashpoint in pop culture, this episode explores how Warner Bros. Discovery, DC, and Discovery Education are turning superhero storytelling into powerful learning experiences for students. LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Euan Lampitt, Vice President of…
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Absent But Not Unwilling
Hear from guest Molly Hebert Loyd, CEO of Concentric Education Solutions about how her organization is leading the charge to solve an intractable problem in schools, chronic absenteeism, with a human solution.
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The Importance of Coherence in Classrooms
This podcast episode focused on the importance of coherence in classrooms and the integration of AI tools in education, featuring Sari Factor, Vice Chair and Chief Strategy Officer of Imagine Learning, and Jason Fournier, Senior Vice President of Product Design and AI. The discussion explored how...
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The Importance of Coherence in Classrooms
This podcast episode focused on the importance of coherence in classrooms and the integration of AI tools in education, featuring Sari Factor, Vice Chair and Chief Strategy Officer of Imagine Learning, and Jason Fournier, Senior Vice President of Product Design and AI. The discussion explored how...
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The Multi-Faceted Role for AI in School Choice Expansion
Listen in as LeiLani and Shaka Mitchell, Nashville-based lawyer, facilitator and national leader in education reform policy discuss the school choice expansion and the many different roles that AI is playing in the expansion.
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The Key to a School's Competitive Relevancy
Schools must be in sync with Millennial parents and their Alpha Generation children with mobile communications that drive a sense of community spirit while increasing student recruitment and retention. The landscape of schooling has scattered into a multitude of options, especially with 29 States...
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AI vs Instructional Excellence: Crafting High-Quality Learning Experiences
AI is advancing rapidly, but not all applications lead to better learning. There's a big difference between flashy, generative AI and the kind of AI that fuels real learning, especially in math. In this episode, Dan Tracy of MIND Education unpacks how thoughtfully designed, neuroscience-based...
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Giving Teachers Time to Teach With Virtual Tutoring
With an epic teacher shortage, schools are turning to tutoring to solve for the 40% mixed ability teaching currently burdening teachers. What are the logistics of adding tutoring, how does it work? What subjects can be covered? Are tutors qualified and how does feedback work? Listen in as LeiLani...
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7 Keys to High-Quality Math Instruction
In this episode, we welcome Dan Tracy, a leading expert in mathematics education at MIND Education. Dan shares his insights on one of the biggest challenges in achieving high-quality math instruction: shifting from a procedural approach to conceptual understanding that fosters deep mathematical...
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Architecting the Future of Edtech Infrastructure
Discussion with Beatriz Arnillas, Executive Director, 1EdTech Foundation With at least seven thousand educational software publishers in America, including libraries of discrete digital objects, systems, courseware, and various single-function apps, there is a lot to consider in terms of how it...
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Closing Math Learning Gaps: Data-Driven Instruction
Math scores are down, and kids are still struggling at pre-pandemic levels, according to NAEP. District leaders need a solution now. In this episode, we tackle this issue head-on. Join us as we dive deep into practical actionable strategies you can implement immediately to address these…
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Future Casting Edtech's Trajectory in K12
What does research show is really happening with declining student learning? Brian Shaw, CEO of Discovery Education, joins LeiLani to discuss what he's been seeing and what it has meant to drive new software development. For one thing, Brian talks about what parents want for their learners today…
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Better Human Teaching Connection
Join LeiLani as she discusses an oft-overlooked arena of classroom modernization – instructional audio. If you've ever been that learner at the back of the room with a teacher or presenter you can hardly hear, or who continues speaking while they are turned towards a presentation so their voice…
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Shaping Tomorrow: The Evolving Role of Math in Our World
As we prepare students for the challenges of tomorrow, math education must evolve to meet their needs. In this podcast, we'll explore the shifting role of math in our world and discuss how innovative approaches like game-based and visual learning are shaping the future of math education. Discover...
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Signal vs. Noise: Building Critical Thinking Skills Amid the Gen-AI Hype
Imagine saving teachers huge amounts of time because they no longer worry about students engaging low-quality information when researching online. Imagine empowering students' critical thinking skills and reinvigorating their quest for knowledge in every research assignment. Sound like another...
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Teacher Retention Criticality
Meet authors and educators Dr. Joseph Jones, Superintendent of New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District and Dr. T.J. Vari, Senior Director of Product Strategy at MaiaLearning. While on tour for Learning Counsel media, LeiLani met Joseph and T.J. at the regional Baltimore event and...
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Appropriate Learning Scaffolding Using AI
Join LeiLani and Dr. Ehsan Kattoula, Assistant Superintendent Accountability Division, Cobb County School District in Georgia for a discussion on "Appropriate Learning Scaffolding Using AI." Dr. Kattoula makes cogent points on how AI will need to be used in schools, what it's worth will be to...
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Trends Impacting the Future of K-12 Education
LeiLani embarks on a discussion with her friend Karl Rectanus, an edtech entrepreneur and former educator with a history of great innovations in the K12 marketspace. Together they bring up what's at the top of trends and dynamics in K12, starting with what's happening with AI. Karl's perspective…
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The Power of Thinking in Big Ideas
States like California and Georgia are working on curriculum frameworks that include incorporation of mathematical "Big Ideas." What are they? Listen in on this podcast with LeiLani and Brandon Smith, the Lead Mathematician and Product Director at MIND Education. The discussion opens about the...
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Ignite Learning with Mathematical Discourse
More teachers should understand that loss of engagement in the present generation of students has serious neuroscience-driven experts hot on the trail of tech solutions that curiously elevate human discourse at the same time. LeiLani interviews Senior Director of Product and Content for MIND...
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Unlocking Minds: The Power of Creative Reasoning in Math Education
Nigel Nisbet, VP of Content Creation at MIND Education joins LeiLani to discuss creative reasoning in the process of learning math. Imagine a mind being able to internally visualize math in a similar way to any other language – such as the mental image picture one gets of a tall tree in all it's...
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Dawning of Schools as Hubs of Tutoring Sourcing
What does it mean to school leaders and teachers to intersect students with what they need to achieve when the existing schedule already overwhelms teachers? When there is no time to catch students up or challenge ones far ahead, something must be done or the likelihood of losing those students…
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Building Problem Solvers with Exploratory Learning
Listen in as LeiLani discusses with guest Ki Karou of MIND Education what it means to use game-based learning, visual learning, in helping learners build mental schema and problem-solve. This is a complex topic that Karou is an expert in, being the Lead Mathematician and Product Director at MIND...
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The Education Intelligent Network Matrix is Already here
LeiLani discusses how the future is already here – education is, irretrievably, already in an intelligent network matrix but still has much to do to fit comfortably in it. Mike Witzman, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering of Cisco's U.S. Public Sector team talks about the trend of "form...
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The Big Conundrum: Logistics and Tailored Learning
A conundrum of schools wanting to personalize and customize learning, to tailor it around individuals is juxtaposed against a lack of logistics and strategy in this discussion with Matt Yeager, Assistant Superintendent of Technology from Garland Independent School District in the Dallas, Texas…
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AI Futures in Education with Serena Saks-Mandel, Global CTO for Education, Microsoft
What could happen when all the artificial intelligences converge? That's just part of this conversation between Serena Saks-Mandel, the Global CTO for Education at Microsoft, and LeiLani Cauthen. Starting of with introducing her not-associated-with-Microsoft new book, "Empowered: Frame your...
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Changing the Culture of Math Learning
Maybe math learning could be better if it was in sync with the current generation's culture – that of Generation Alpha. LeiLani interviews Brandon Smith, the Lead Mathematician and Product Director at MIND Education about how learning-by-doing is a key part of a new cultural address for math...
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Building the Culture of Security in Schools
Culture of security? Listen in on this unique conversation with Helen Patton, the Cyber Security Strategic Advisor from Cisco. The discussion of security in schools is not just about digital citizenship, passwords, and the like, but about leadership. Cyber security in schools is not just a "job…
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Gen Alpha and Being the School of Choice
Listen in on this rousing conversation about the Alpha Generation which is defined as people born 2010-2024 – the current crop of students in K12 schools. Research has shown they prefer the screen to humans, and although older generations find that terrible, it's a fact that still has a profound...
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What is the Science of Learning Math?
Listen in to our interview with Nigel Nisbet, a rock musician, AP Physics and AP Computer Science teacher who did a tour of duty in an all-girls school, plus a specialist who devotes his time to reaching into the structure and beauty of mathematics and discussing the "science of learning math"…
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Actionable Learning Through Engagement
What is actionable? What is real engagement? LeiLani discusses these things, and a novel definition of equity with Dan Tracy from MIND Education. Dan's triple threat as a teacher, coder and trainer, makes this podcast discussion an interesting reveal on how to approach instruction – especially…
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5 Ways to Accelerate Math by Doing
A discussion with Ki Karou about the challenges of teaching today. Karou introduces five areas that the science of learning has identified as key to students' doing – and how those are aids to accelerating learning, including the awesome capability of helping learners potentially jump through...
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Responsible AI and Future AI
LeiLani interviews Justin Jordan, a former educator and Senior Product Manager at Cisco about the definitions of AI, how AI has permutated into many aspects of technology and what we need to be responsible for as we humans brave the new world where AI is in everything. Also find out things about...
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How We Should Respond to AI and What's Next
Listen in as LeiLani discusses how we should be responding to AI in education with long-time friend and esteemed colleague in the field, Roland Antoine, Innovative Projects Manager at Dallas ISD in Texas. Roland introduces the idea that the problem is the "problems definition" and that we must...
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Making the Most of Remaining ESSER Funds
Fear of the "fiscal cliff" and what to spend remaining ESSER funds on is a hot topic in schools. Listen in as Leilani discusses the topic with Jon Hummell, Director of State Initiatives at Lexia Learning. Productive use of the money may not be what you think.
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AI and Algebraic Thinking About Time & Space in Schools
Listen in as LeiLani chats with Maurice Draggon, Sr. Director of Digital Learning at Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida. First they discuss the implications of AI in schools and then the emerging time and space AI known as Intelligent Calendaring for its possibilities and then the...
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Shrinking School IT Teams & 3 Imperatives
Listen in as LeiLani discusses the problems of shrinking school IT teams and three imperatives with Mary Schlegelmilch, who as a former educator has extensive knowledge in distance learning and online learning as a member of the Cisco Education team. Discover how the three imperatives are a "team...
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What is the Science of Reading (Through the Lens of Pedagogy and Teacher Practice)?
Listen in as LeiLani learns a thing or two about the what the science of reading really is from Carey Sweet, National Senior Education Advisor Education Partnerships at Lexia Learning. While reading may be thousands of years old, the science of it has evolved over time. Good literacy instruction...
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A Social-Emotional Imperative: Supporting both Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) through Software Innovation
In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen, talks with Dr. Suzanne Carreker, Principal Educational Content Lead at Lexia Learning. Today's topic: contrasting dyslexia and developmental language disorder and...
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Education Technology for Emergent Bilinguals: Overlooked Aspects to Consider When Interpreting the Research
In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen, talks with Nicholas Feroce, Ph.D., Research Scientist at Lexia Learning about research design in the area of emergent bilinguals, and program causality to effect...
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Cybersecurity in K12
In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen, talks with Mary Schlegelmilch, Education Advocate at Cisco. They discuss the changes in K-12 education, and how the pandemic changed culture and mindset, and…
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Dimensions to Math Equity
In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, Host LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Twana Young, Vice President of Curriculum and Instruction for Mind Research Institute. In addition to access, Young explains that there's also agency and power and identity and belonging, and those are…
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Accelerating Math Learning through the Science of Math
In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, Host LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Nigel Nisbet, Vice President of Content Creation at the MIND Research Institute. Nisbet shifts the question from 'How should I teach,' to 'How do they learn?' It's a profound difference which helps you to...
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Inspiring Math Learning through the Science of Math
Host LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Jay Flores, Global STEM Ambassador, and founder of Invent the Change. "If our youth aren't loving math, or at least somewhat excited by it and challenged by it in positive ways, then they're going to have trouble with those problem-solving skills and navigating...
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Making Literacy Skills Age Appropriate for Your Students
As education embarks on pandemic recovery, the mission of continued support for literacy skills beyond early elementary grades is emerging as vital. What does this mean for teachers needing solutions for literacy skill gaps after those foundational school years? Listen in as Host LeiLani Cauthen...
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Removing Accent Bias in the Classroom: Where Technological Excellence Meets Human Intelligence
Listen in to guest Maya Goodall, Senior Director, Emergent Bilingual Curriculum - from Lexia Learning - as she informs us about accent bias and how technology is coming to the rescue. Host LeiLani Cauthen marvels at the ingenuity of this latest technological breakthrough that uses Artificial...
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Learning Loss and Acceleration
A discussion with Dr. Tiffany Hogan, MGH Institute of Health Professions, and Dr. Liz Brooke, Chief Learning Officer, Lexia Learning, about what the post-pandemic research is showing about learning loss. Guests mention that over thirty States are implementing laws or policies around…
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Education's Serious Decision Point
In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen talks with Mary Schlegelmilch, Education Advocate at Cisco. They discuss the post-pandemic world, and the technology-driven changes that will catalyze an…
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Your Share of the Stimulus Wallet
In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen talks with Phyllis Jordan, Associate Director of Future Ed, and Brittany Martin, Education Department Relations Manager at Lexia Learning. "The Learning Counsel has...
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The Right Now Imperative is Learning Logistics
What is logistics when it comes to education and learning? This podcast defines them and goes further, hosting Mary Schlegelmilch from Cisco, a seasoned educator who consults schools and Cisco itself about where education is going. Commentary on the perfect storm of teacher shortage,...
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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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LeiLani Cauthen | Author, Futurist, CEO Learning Counsel News & Knowstory
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