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Learning to pivot

August 2024
Sometimes new information and situations call for major change. This issue shows how professional learning helps educators pivot, by bridging the gap between knowing better and doing better. (more…)
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How to prepare for a professional development conference

Conferences are key components of educator professional development strategies because of the way such events can assemble a diverse array of experts, practitioners, and researchers from which attendees can choose and design their own learning experiences. Additionally, opportunities for networking ...
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The Learning Professional announces 2025 themes

With only the October and December journals left to publish this year, the Learning Forward publications team sets its sights on the 2025 issues of The Learning Professional. Informed by Learning Forward members, The Learning Professional writers and contributors, and ...
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Continuing resolution signed – Title IIA still not safe in FY 2025 appropriations

Sep 27, 2024
On Thursday, Sept. 26, President Biden signed a three-month continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government at current funding levels until Dec. 20, 2024. The CR avoids a government shutdown and for members of Congress, allows them to head ...

Title II-A Symposium

Join us in Miami, FL, Oct. 29-30, 2024, for our next Title II-A Symposium. This two-day learning event is designed to help districts strategically plan, implement, and evaluate their use of Title II-A funding to support comprehensive professional learning in their systems.

Through this event, Learning Forward will help you advance the sustainability and integrity of this grant by providing a comprehensive training and support network to Title II-A grant managers. Developing a learning experience that amalgamates Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning, Title II-A statutory requirements, and best practices is the first step to ensuring that our school systems continue to receive annual professional learning allocations and that those funds are leveraged for maximum impact.

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Title II: Opportunities and impact

This webinar highlights state and district successes and challenges in implementing Title II-A programs and collecting impact data. As a community, we seek ways to seamlessly support and integrate high-quality professional learning and to share those efforts with Congress and ...
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Introduction to Standards for Professional Learning

Dive into Standards for Professional Learning and the key frames that describe the essential content of adult learning, process elements of high-quality professional learning, and aspects of the professional learning context, structures, and cultures.

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The Intersection of Equity and Professional Learning

Equip educators with a comprehensive understanding of the equity standards within the Standards for Professional Learning, and apply them to your own work as you examine the crucial role equity plays in a high-quality professional learning system.

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Professional Learning Essentials

Move your system from a "PD mindset" to one that reflects a vision for and key attributes of comprehensive professional learning. Examine key roles and responsibilities for leaders at various levels of a comprehensive learning system and advance professional learning as a driver of improvement.

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