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Learning Forward acquires National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future.

REDEFINED LEARNING Lifelong Learners: How Redefining Professional Learning Leads to Stronger Teachers and Improved Student Outcomes Educators for High Standards, 2017 In summer 2017, Educators for High Standards partnered with Learning Forward and Teach Plus to highlight and showcase educators leading high-quality, redefined professional learning in their schools or districts. […]

In the interest of starting a national conversation about the type and quality of professional learning teachers experience, Corwin, the National Education Association, and Learning Forward invited teachers nationwide to voice their opinions about their professional learning. More than 6,300 teachers from across the United States responded. The survey is […]

Dallas, Texas – October 10, 2017 Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded a $600,000 grant to Learning Forward to support the launch of the new What Matters Now Network, a community of state-based coalitions of policy makers and educators. The network will apply improvement science methods within a Networked […]

Through the Lens of Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Learning.

Accentuate the formative: Michigan teachers use rubrics and video to improve their practice. By Theron Blakeslee, Denny Chandler, Edward Roeber, and Tara Kintz Lauri Bach, an 8th-grade U.S. history teacher in Michigan, is a member of a school-based learning team studying formative assessment practices with her colleagues. While teams like […]

This third edition of Joellen Killion’s essential resource guides readers through the rigors of producing an effective, in-depth analysis of professional learning. The methods outlined here help readers: Adhere to changes in policy relating to professional learning; Facilitate the use of extensive datasets crucial for measuring feasibility, equity, sustainability, and […]