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Build bridges with student success in mind
By Suzanne Bouffard
Categories: Collaboration, System leadershipDecember 2024
As we head into 2025, building bridges is a timely theme for Learning Forward. Not only are we bridging the work we’ve been doing this past year with the future to ensure sustained access to high-quality professional learning, but we’re reflecting on the many bridges we all need to build to create a peaceful, productive, and positive world for young people. In the context of historic political division, high rates of academic, social, and emotional stress among students, and uncertainties about the future, students need the adults in their communities to come together for the common goal of supporting their current and future success. If ensuring every student’s success were a simple task, we would have accomplished it by now. We haven’t, and it’s clear
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Suzanne Bouffard is senior vice president of communications and publications at Learning Forward. She is the editor of The Learning Professional, Learning Forward’s flagship publication. She also contributes to the Learning Forward blog and webinars. With a background in child development, she has a passion for making research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, and families. She has written for many national publications including The New York Times and the Atlantic, and previously worked as a writer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Duke University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She loves working with authors to help them develop their ideas and voices for publication.
Categories: Collaboration, System leadership
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