Learning Forward revised Standards for Professional Learning and launched them globally in 2022 to ensure educators have the latest evidence-backed information on what’s needed to build effective professional learning systems that change educator practice and impact student learning.
Learning Forward will commemorate the two-year anniversary of the standards revision during Standards for Professional Learning Week 2024, April 22-26, and invite educators to share how standards-based professional learning is working in their schools and systems.
Standards outline the characteristics of professional learning that leads to effective teaching practices, supportive leadership, and improved student results. Influenced by current issues, the 2022 standards “put forward to the field evidence-based strategies and competencies that equip all educators with skillsets to navigate the challenges that our districts, schools, educators, and students are facing at this time,” said Paul Fleming, Learning Forward Chief Learning Officer. “Standards recognize that only with effective professional learning can we reach our big goals for education systems, and for individual educators and students.”
Standards Week 2024 features daily 30-minute conversational live-streamed webinars with Learning Forward experts hosting school-based practitioners and system-level leaders. Events start at 3 p.m. ET and are free to attend.
Standards Week 2024 sessions & presenters — REGISTER HERE
SHIFTING FROM HOPING FOR THE BEST TO MEASURING IMPACT THROUGH STANDARDS-ALIGNED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING — Monday, 3pm ET
Monday’s presenters:
Denise Stevens is Director of Leadership Development, Clayton County Public Schools, Jonesboro, Georgia.
She is a distinguished educator with over 30 years of district and school leadership experience.
Machel Mills-Miles, Vice President, Standards Implementation & Outreach, Learning Forward
SHIFTING FROM MISALIGNMENT TO RIGOR WITH HIGH-QUALITY CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS –Tuesday
Tuesday’s presenters:
Presenting from Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland:
Jennifer Loznak, Supervisor, Secondary Mathematics
Jacquelyn Mariott, math content specialist
Malaika Stewart, math content specialist
Elizabeth Foster, Senior Vice President, Research and Strategy, Learning Forward
SHIFTING FROM RANDOM ACTS OF PD TO A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SYSTEM – Wednesday, 3pm ET
Wednesday’s presenters
Leigh Ann Bradshaw is the associate superintendent/senior executive director of professional learning at Orange County Public Schools (OCPS)
Claire Steele is the director of instructional development in the Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) Professional Learning Department
Paul Fleming, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Forward
SHIFTING FROM SEARCHING FOR SUPPORT TO USING EVIDENCE-BASED TOOLS TO ADVANCE HIGH-QUALITY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING – Thursday, 3pm ET
Elizabeth Foster, Senior Vice President, Research and Strategy, Learning Forward
Machel Mills-Miles, Vice President, Standards Implementation & Outreach, Learning Forward
Paul Fleming, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Forward
Session recordings will be available Friday, April 26 on Learning Forward’s website, www.learningforward.org. We encourage educators to reference these sessions and use them as springboards for discussion in their PLCs, district strategic planning meetings, data reviews, and professional learning evaluation initiatives.
Standards Week invites educators at all levels to accelerate their learning journeys and deepen their knowledge of high-quality professional learning. Standards Week is also an opportunity for educators to galvanize support for exemplary professional learning and advocate for critical funding that supports it.
A number of standards assessment and implementation tools will be discussed, including: Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI); Advancing outcomes for all learners; Policy pathways to standards implementation.
Here is the link: Standards Week information page & registration
Media contact: Gail Paul, gail.paul@learningforward.org. (513) 379-8153.
