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Thank you for your interest in the Learning Forward Academy. Learning Forward is excited to announce that the next Academy cohort is now forming!  Becoming a member of the 2024 Academy will provide you with the opportunity to be on the ground floor of the newly revised Standards for Professional Learning that will be released in Spring 2022. The Learning Forward Academy is a great way to increase your capacity as an educator and leader in the ever-changing landscape of education.  Along with colleagues from around the world, you will dive deep and align your problem of practice to cutting-edge, equity-centered professional learning standards that incorporate evidence from research and practice about critical topics for educators, including culturally sustaining instruction, social and emotional learning, and personalized learning.

Be a trailblazer and join the Learning Forward Academy Class of 2024 now!  The application deadline is March 15, 2022.

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Solve your biggest challenges.

Transform yourself and your organization.

Get results for ALL students.

The Learning Forward Academy is Learning Forward’s flagship deep learning experience. With a rich history that spans 20 years, the Academy has supported the problem-based learning of teachers, teacher-leaders, instructional coaches, principals, regional leaders, superintendents, and others whose jobs involve supporting the learning of other adults and students.

When you join the Academy, your learning journey is no longer a solo experience. Instead, you will spend 2 ½ years working with expert coaches and practitioners from around the world as you construct knowledge, improve your practice, create better learning conditions for your colleagues, and improve results for your students.

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Is the Academy right for you?

The Academy is custom-built for each participant or team to match your needs.

Are you ready to:

  • Construct knowledge and develop strategies to overcome challenges and improve educator practice?
  • Join a vibrant and engaged learning community of fellow educators who are connected virtually and live.
  • Become the professional learning subject-matter expert for your organization
  • Implement professional learning in your environment that ultimately increases student achievement?
  • Engage fully during learning sessions and do the job-embedded homework?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, Learning Forward's Academy is right for you.

Benefits to Academy participants

  • Share 2 1/2 years of learning with educators from around the world;
  • Experience team-based learning days for in-depth instruction and to build relationships and foster community;
  • Attend two Learning Forward Annual Conferences on us and be inspired by, and network with, industry experts and peers;
  • Participate and collaborate by phone and virtually to extend learning and for continuous process improvement;
  • Receive ongoing support from an experienced coach who is also an Academy graduate;
  • Gain access to resources, relationships and real results with a complimentary Learning Forward membership for three years—to advance your professional learning journey; and
  • Celebrate successful completion with a formal graduation at Learning Forward's Annual Conference.

Dates and tuition rates for the next Academy cohort, the Class of 2024

Tuition for the next Learning Forward Academy cohort is $4120 for the 2 1/2 year program includes team-based learning, web-based discussions, access to experienced coaches, registration for two Annual Conferences, formal graduation upon completion, and a three-year membership in Learning Forward. Academy members are responsible for their own travel and lodging costs during the Academy meetings.

Academy Class of 2024 team-based community learning days and graduation will be:

  • Session One: July 15-17, 2022, Minneapolis, MN
  • Session Two: Dec. 2-4, 2022, at our Annual Conference in Nashville, TN (annual conference registration included for Dec. 5-7)
  • Session Three: July 2023, location TBD
  • Session Four: Dec. 1-3, 2023, at our Annual Conference in Washington, DC (annual conference registration included for De. 4-6)
  • Session Five & Graduation: December 2024, location TBD

If you have any questions, please contact Kristin Buehrig at kristin.buehrig@learningforward.org or 972-421-0903.

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Kristin Buehrig
Kristin Buehrig
VP, Conference Programs
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Richardson, TX 75081
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See what participants are saying about Learning Forward's Academy

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What are others saying about their Academy experience?

Learning Forward Academy has been a transformational, system-changing professional learning opportunity for my colleagues and me and is truly changing the culture and focus in our district. The depth of job-embedded learning, networking with professionals across the world and spending quality time immersed in problem solving around real issues within our systems is something unique […]

Joe McFarland

The Academy afforded the opportunity to solve an authentic problem of practice in my workplace. Collaborating with coaches and Academy colleagues, I designed a customized learning plan connected with my daily work, learned how to use evaluation tools to measure educator and student outcomes and became a staunch advocate for professional learning. Most importantly, the […]

Dawn Wilson

The Learning Forward Academy is a 2.5 year experience which supported me in implementing a highly effective teacher development program and held me accountable to measuring and improving the impact of the professional learning implemented. The learning I received transferred to other teacher development programs I now lead and emphasized the importance of monitoring and […]

Anna Mary Smith

If you are someone who truly believes in evidence of everyone learning every day, if you are inspired by AHA moments and lead with a learning stance, if you crave the comaraderie of people who are bravely making a difference, the Academy is the experience for you. The Academy gave me ideas that greatly improved […]

Susan Milliones

Learning Forward Academy is one of those life changing educator experiences. Using my problem of practice and working with experts and colleagues greatly supported, impacted and ensured student success in my district.

Lisa Casto

The Learning Forward Academy redefined what learning as an adult is suppose to be. This dynamic professional and personal learning experience provided the space that me to grapple with my own understandings and values around the work I do through self-reflection, processing and discussion with like minded peers from all over the world. As Supervisor […]

Barbara Patterson Oden

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