Make a difference to students and educators in your community by joining your local Learning Forward Affiliate – find out more about our affiliates here.

Learning Forward Affiliates provide an active community of like-minded colleagues and professional learning experts from around the world.

Affiliates build local capacity, knowledge, and practices by facilitating high-quality professional learning around managing change, measuring impact, and ensuring equity.

Affiliate events range from conferences, book studies with expert speakers, Twitter chats, podcasts, collaborations with state departments of education and other policymakers, and the creation of toolkits, videos and other resources.

Affiliates work with Learning Forward to influence state and local policies and practices and advocate at all levels of government for sustained funding.

Affiliates raise awareness about the impact professional learning can have on educators and students and offer resources and tools to collect data and measure impact.