Gail Paul

Yolanda Harris, K-5 coordinator of elementary literacy, Gwinnett County Public Schools   Like many U.S. states, Georgia has recently focused on addressing early literacy through new policies. In 2023, as the state legislature approved sweeping reforms aimed at improving the quality of reading instruction, Yolanda Harris started her new position […]

Many school districts find themselves with pockets of excellence: schools that stand out from the pack because their students are doing better than others in the district. Such uneven results are attributable to a number of factors. A common one is a patchwork of instructional approaches across schools. That was […]

More than 97% of educators who attended Learning Forward’s 2023 Annual Conference said they left the event with ideas they will implement or apply. We love sharing stories of how educators apply what they learn at our conference into their own contexts, and the upcoming issue of The Learning Professional […]

School principals are a vital but sometimes overlooked ingredient in education reform. Principals are schools’ chief improvement officers — leaders uniquely positioned to strengthen classroom instruction, build cultures of high achievement, cultivate leadership in others, and support teachers and other educators to boost student performance (Grissom et al., 2021). But […]