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Measuring Learning

June 2025

To know if your professional learning is successful, measure educators’ and students’ learning. This issue offers strategies and examples of a wide range of approaches for evaluation and storytelling. (more…)

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Statement from Learning Forward: Professional Learning Takes a Major Hit as Title II-A Funds Are Delayed — Students Will Pay the Price

The delay in releasing $2.19 billion in Title II-A Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants is an unacceptable disruption to the professional learning pipeline that sustains our nation's educators and impacts the students they serve. Title II-A is the only federal ...

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Three reasons to turn to coaching when things feel most challenging

This month, our Connect newsletter team sat down with Sharron Helmke, an ICF-certified coach and Learning Forward's senior vice president of professional services, to mine her expertise on coaching, specifically how coaching is uniquely valuable during challenging times, helping educators ...

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Advocacy updates

24 state attorneys general sue for release of FY25 money

Jul 15, 2025

On Monday, 24 states filed suit in federal district court in Rhode Island against the Department of Education, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President for failing to allocate more than $6 billion in fiscal year 2025 education ...

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