LeiLani Cauthen

United States

CEO and Publisher at The Learning Counsel

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Schools Need to Quit these Assumptions

2 weeks ago | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

Something much bigger is happening in America than leaders in education are even considering. It’s a vast shift awaiting a new structure to the form of schooling which is inhibited by old assumptions. National trend patterns indicate that consumers are shopping for learning for their children that will fit them, not schools. Schooling is out, learning is in.
Building the Matrix of Teaching and Tutoring

Jan 5, 2025 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

Eighty-seven percent of teachers are overwhelmed with the number of expectations on their practice. Teaching to mixed ability classes where thirty to forty percent of the students are behind, and sometimes up to five grades or more behind, is no small feat. Many don’t make it past the five-year mark as new teachers, and the shortage nationwide means nearly ninety percent of schools are short by upwards of fifteen percent of the teachers they need.
AI and the Edtech Stack: Trendsetters at Instructure Discuss the Future

Jan 5, 2025 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

AI is in every conversation with K12 leaders and the edtech industry, but it’s not everything, and it may even be a distraction unless it’s positioned alongside the order-bringing framework systems and the crafted and animated paths of knowledge in courseware.
The Crossroads of AI vs. Human Teaching

Sep 23, 2024 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

Dear Everyone in Education,I’m boldly going to just ask for your help. I know I’m not the only one who thinks we will always need human teachers in K12 learning. Yet some AI experts think that in the future the digitized subject and interactive questioning expertise of master teachers will replace millions of teaching jobs. Meanwhile there is ongoing cascading failure and attrition away from traditional schooling. Schools can’t find enough teachers anyway and running 24-28% short.
Banishing Failure with Personalized and Project-Based Learning

Aug 20, 2024 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

What school and teacher is not trying to banish learning failure? Well, when I spoke to Glen Taylor, the Co-CEO of Centric Learning, a former educator and passionate change-agent, I was struck by their work-alongside view of helping do such banishment. Centric Learning is helping schools innovate by flanking their structure and schedule with project- based online learning solutions that are live-teacher led.
What Rapid Sharing Made Seriously Easy in Your Classroom Will Do to Bolster Human Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence

Aug 5, 2024 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

It’s about time. I’ve been longing for this. What was it about the early days of digitally sharing via screens that was soooo much harder than just whipping out a goose-necked overhead and throwing a transparency up there. Of course, having to make transparencies was no bath in a lake of fun, and in truth I never did it, but I saw it happen to my college professors.
Forget the 4-day School Week - a New Flex Learning is the Solution to Attrition, the Teacher Shortage and Learning Loss

Jul 22, 2024 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

More than 2,100 public schools in 25 states have switched to a four-day school week, often in hopes of recruiting teachers, saving money and boosting student attendance, researchers estimate. It’s not just small, rural schools that have been facing significant teacher shortages, but they have led the trend, usually choosing to take off Mondays or Fridays to give employees and students a three-day weekend every week.
Force vs. Intelligence : the future of schooling dynamics and AI

Jun 3, 2024 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

Did you know that raw force in this universe is philosophically balanced by intelligence? That the spark of life, our minds, bring order and understanding to the otherwise mute motions of mass, space and time? A boulder going downhill has enough force to crush a human, whose intelligence is manifest from inside a rather delicate structure.
Evolving above the Classroom vs. Online Debate

May 28, 2024 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

Almost every educator, every teacher, will state that students must have a teacher. They stop short of saying “must have a teacher to learn,” now that it has been proven that at least fifty percent of students learn well online without a teacher in any number of learning resources and courses delivered with chatbots, not live teaching, per Learning Counsel research in 2021.
The Solution is to Check Your Spam Folder & Answer or Originate Calls

May 21, 2024 | thelearningcounsel.com | LeiLani Cauthen

While the world is being overrun with AI and a creeping technocracy, jobs, lives, and our souls seem to be on the line. What of schools and the industry that serves them? Well, they are ground zero. Everyone wants a piece of their action, telling them what to do and how to do it and selling them things and visions of the future and overloading them with work. Teachers will tell you that in graphic expletives. I dare you to ask.