Learning Forward

We’re listening! Based on member input, Learning Forward has simplified its membership structure in a way that allows members — new and renewing — to make the choices that best fit their needs. All the member benefits you have come to expect are still part of membership packages: Newsletters based […]

I started to wear glasses at a very young age and was always fascinated by whether my fellow bespectacled friends and family were nearsighted or farsighted. My investigation as a 5-year-old typically began with a series of questions and usually ended with me trading glasses with someone and laughing at […]

Putting Faces on the Data: What Great Leaders Do! By Lyn Sharratt and Michael Fullan  Foreword by Sir Michael Barber Students are people, not data. Putting Faces on the Data shows how to develop a common language for sharing all students’ progress with all teachers and leaders and how to […]

Learning Forward has received a grant of almost $1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support states adopting and implementing Common Core State Standards. The grant will be used to create innovative professional development technology as well as continue Learning Forward’s efforts to create a statewide, comprehensive […]

The bottom line on excellence: A guide to investing in professional learning that increases educator performance and student results. By Joellen Killion and Stephanie Hirsh With the current challenges to school funding, it is crucial that education agencies carefully examine their investments in professional learning. Guiding principles based on the Resources […]

Expand You Network Want to expand your leadership skills, advocate for professional learning, or influence policy? Learning Forward affiliates provide members the opportunity to expand their professional development networks by connecting with other individuals by location. More than 35 state and provincial affiliates provide services and programs that connect learning […]

As schools began installing computers and networks in classrooms two decades ago, few of us could have imagined how integral technology would become to our professional practice and our everyday lives. Technology has facilitated new ways of teaching and learning. Technology has affected not only the way students learn, but […]

Teachers are powerful human resources who are often overlooked and can serve as assets for school-based change. That was our biggest lesson from a two-year partnership between faculty from a state university and three local, rural middle and high schools. The partnership was created to help facilitate teacher mathematics professional […]

As a Learning School Alliance facilitator, I have had the opportunity to work with schools nationally and internationally, and one of the biggest challenges that school teams face is finding time for collaborative learning. The Learning School Alliance is a network of schools collaborating about professional practice. The network embodies Learning Forward’s […]

At Lincoln Elementary School in Madison, Wis., we, too, are interested in the simplicity of everyday school, not the quick fixes or flashy programs. Thousands of schools, public and private, educate children daily. Some schools make significant contributions to a child’s growth and development with little to show on a […]