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LEARNING CYCLES Learning Cycles: A Powerful Tools for Teacher-to-Teacher Professional Learning WestEd, 2018 In Teacher Practice Networks, an initiative of the Center for the Future of Teaching & Learning at WestEd, teacher leaders lead sustained professional learning to advance K-12 instructional practices aligned to college- and career-readiness standards. Multiyear data […]

New editor joins staff of The Learning Professional Suzanne Bouffard has joined Learning Forward as associate director of publications. Her primary responsibility will be to serve as the editor of The Learning Professional. Bouffard has written about education and child development for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Daily […]

By Bonnie Hain and Jim Mirabelli Throughout the teaching-learning process, successful students and their teachers set clear learning goals and monitor progress to meet those goals. As teachers learn their students’ strengths and needs in relation to learning goals, they can change instruction and practice to acquire deeper knowledge and […]

By Jill Lachenmayr With tremendous appreciation and inspiration, the Learning Forward Foundation is delighted to support educator professional learning by partnering with selected learning leaders each year, to help them transform their beliefs and practice to improve professional learning in their organizations. We are excited to announce the Learning Forward […]

My time as a Learning Forward board member has been personally transformational. It had an exponential impact on my work in the field with numerous educators and organizations. Being a board member required me to examine my beliefs and assumptions about professional learning and document evidence of ongoing impact as […]

I have been fortunate and privileged to serve on the Learning Forward Board for the past three years. During this time, I have engaged in deep professional learning and transformative leadership with my board colleagues, Learning Forward staff and many other educators within the organization and beyond. Through the relationships, […]

Learning Forward provides my school district a forum to participate in a community of learners focused on providing high-quality professional development for all staff. Partnering with Learning Forward has increased our capacity to increase student achievement for our students.

As superintendent of one of the nation’s largest school systems, I have found that serving on the Learning Forward Board of Trustees has been incredibly valuable for me as a leader and for the more than 73,000 students I serve. The access to cutting-edge research and discussions with our profession’s […]

My time as a Learning Forward board member helps me stay up to date with effective practices and policies that strengthen professional learning opportunities for educators while at the same time exposing me to amazing teachers and leaders in the field who make it happen every day.