Learning Counsel Report Podcast

LeiLani Cauthen | Author, Futurist, CEO Learning Counsel News & Knowstory
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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.

  1. 4d ago

    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 Corporate Social Responsibility at Warner Bros. Discovery, about the impact of the DC Superpowered Storytellers initiative and the partnership with Discovery Education. Together, the organizations have reached students through more than 3,200 schools and youth organizations, helping make creative, career-connected learning accessible to all. Euan shares how iconic superhero characters help students build creativity, confidence, and a sense of purpose while connecting classroom learning to real-world career pathways. The conversation highlights Discovery Education's role in developing rigorous, standards-aligned English Language Arts (ELA) and cross-curricular curriculum that uses storytelling to strengthen literacy, communication, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning skills. From classroom-ready lessons and virtual field trips to hands-on studio experiences and afterschool activities, discover how culturally relevant content can boost engagement, inspire student voice, and help young people see themselves not just as consumers of stories—but as storytellers, creators, and future innovators.

    26 min

  2. Jun 3 ·  Video

    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.

    18 min

  3. May 7

    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 curriculum-informed AI can support teachers by providing targeted resources and feedback while maintaining educational coherence, rather than relying on generic LLMs.

    48 min

  4. May 7 ·  Video

    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 curriculum-informed AI can support teachers by providing targeted resources and feedback while maintaining educational coherence, rather than relying on generic LLMs.

    48 min

  5. 09/25/2025 ·  Video

    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.

    41 min

  6. 07/23/2025 ·  Video

    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 and Washington D.C. having at least one type of school choice program that includes vouchers.  Find out how the right tech reduces everyone's frustration and establishes a digital home, so your school is the choice made.

    37 min

  7. 07/21/2025 ·  Video

    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 programs can use AI to enhance, not replace, great instruction. Learn why effective AI in math education isn't about automation, it's about understanding how students learn. Learning becomes personal when students are actively thinking, visualizing, and problem-solving and that's what great design, not automation, delivers. Listen in as Dan shares how MIND leverages AI to analyze patterns in student thinking and iteratively improve instruction, creating a natural environment for learning. Built on decades of neuroscience and real classroom data, MIND Education can uniquely speak to how thoughtful, neuroscience-informed, visually grounded design drives real outcomes in math.

    33 min

  8. 06/03/2025 ·  Video

    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 and Connie Warren, M.Ed. , Senior Marketing Manager, BookNook discuss this important topic as schools prepare for even more losses of teachers going into the 2025-26 school year. High-impact tutoring has the potential to solve major problems schools have with both staffing and driving achievement for all learners.

    43 min
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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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  • Creator
    LeiLani Cauthen | Author, Futurist, CEO Learning Counsel News & Knowstory
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    86
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © the Learning Counsel 2020
  • Show Website
    Learning Counsel Report Podcast