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Tailor appropriate questions and record discusion notes.

Prepare for the debrief conversation, leveraging expertise and experience to reflect on observations

Record what happens during the lesson without judgment.

Zaretta Hammond is a teacher educator, researcher, and consultant committed to supporting leaders, coaches, and teachers in integrating neuroscience with instruction, equity, and literacy. Her work is informed by her classroom experience, her time in organizations such as the National Equity Project, and her own research about how neuroscience and […]

Establish shared expectations well before the observation.

LICENSURE POLICY Rethinking Relicensure: Promoting Professional Learning Through Teacher Licensure Policies New America, August 2018 New America examined whether and how teacher licensure requirements in the U.S. encourage meaningful professional learning. Looking across all 50 states, they discovered that the short answer is no. Most policies failed to encourage learning […]

Many of the articles in this issue of The Learning Professional demonstrate Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning in action. Use this tool to deepen your own understanding of what standards implementation might look like and to explore implementation in various contexts. In this issue, we highlight three examples. Learn […]

For many educators, the image above is a familiar representation of the difference between equality and equity. But many people think the graphic could be improved — including the creator of the original version, business professor Craig Froehle. The Center for Story-based Strategy teamed up with the Interaction Institute for […]

Learning Forward will host an event honoring Executive Director Stephanie Hirsh from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, at the Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas. All participants are invited to join the celebration, which will include music and dancing. The event is to thank Hirsh, who is retiring after […]

Learning Forward will host a special Capitol Hill briefing this fall that will bring together nationally recognized professional development expert practitioners to show Congress, the Trump administration, and K-12 education stakeholders how school districts are using funding from Title IIA of the Every Student Succeeds Act. This panel will focus […]