Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy is a senior consultant with Learning Forward, and most recently served as the executive director of teaching and learning in a large urban school district in the Dallas, Texas area. With 27+ years of experience in professional learning, school improvement, and curriculum and instructional design. She began her work as an elementary teacher, and later went on to serve as a school counselor. Over the years, Kennedy has been a professional learning director, adjunct professor, associate director, coordinator, and specialist. Read full bio.
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Re-visioning and building capacity for literacy instruction in the 21st century
Learn about a sustainable, replicable professional learning model that can support schools and districts as they move from using traditional classroom approaches of K-5 literacy instruction to using a blended learning model for literacy instruction. Developed with and implemented by school and district leaders, we will discuss processes, protocols, and educator tools that bring this model […] -
Advancing the standards: Coaches lead professional learning on a road not always taken
Most people have been faced with a fork in the road, where they were not sure which path to take. Decisions about teaching and learning paths can present a similar dilemma among educators today, especially when it comes to leveraging professional learning to meet curriculum and performance goals for students […] -
Advancing the standards: Oh, the places teachers will go
In the classic children’s picture book by Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go, readers are taken on a whimsical adventure into an ever-changing world, full of new pathways and discoveries. Read how your own path through professional learning is similar and how the Standards for Professional Learning provide practical […] -
Advancing the standards: Coaches recognize learning is change
Applications of change research are at the heart of the Implementation standard. Explore questions that help coaches respond to adult learning needs, identify levers and barriers, and improve results for long-term implementation of professional learning. -
Advancing the standards: 3 ways to align professional learning goals to student goals using data
With the onset of widespread school improvement and reform efforts, data has gained recognition as a lever for informing practice but has somehow escaped professional learning planning. Discover three ways that teacher leaders can use data to align professional learning to student learning. -
Advancing the standards: Design learning that drives satisfaction
In planning a new system for professional learning, consider how to embed Daniel Pink's three components of motivation that create internal drive and increase job satisfaction. -
Advancing the standards: Coaches are the multipliers that schools need
Jacqueline Kennedy uses Liz Wiseman's book, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter to illustrate how the Leadership standard guides coaches to amplify the strengths and capabilities of the people around them and inspire others to surpass expectations. -
Advancing the standards: What 5th-grade campers can show learning communities
When Jacqueline Kennedy spent a few days with fifth graders at an outdoor education camp, she witnessed how easily students embrace the power of learning in communities even as they experience new and awkward learning. Read how the students mirrored teacher learning as they moved through each of the three […] -
Advancing the standards: Teacher leaders move colleagues from knowing to doing
Read how the Implementation standard can help overcome the knowing-doing gap in professional learning. -
Advancing the standards: Use collaborative inquiry and multiple data sources to improve practice
Learn how to create a bridge from data to substantive information that drives professional learning and informs educators' decisions about instruction.
