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PRINCIPAL SUPPORT From Frenzied to Focused: How School Staffing Models Can Support Principals as Instructional Leaders New America, June 2017 How can school systems make principals’ roles more manageable while also ensuring that teachers are receiving the support they need to continue improving classroom instruction for their students? This new […]

House funding bill eliminates essential support for educators Stephanie Hirsh, executive director of Learning Forward, issued the following statement about the recent bill outlining education funding from the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives. I am outraged that our elected representatives would fail to listen to their constituents, who […]

Stephanie Hirsh, executive director of Learning Forward, issued the following statement about the recent bill outlining education funding from the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives: “I am outraged that our elected representatives would fail to listen to their constituents, who have shared for months how important Title II […]

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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.

Focus Principal Learning Inspiring growth: Academy gives Florida’s educational leaders a safe and supportive learning space. By Stephen Fink and Anneke Markholt Educational leaders in Florida are participating in the Commissioner’s Leadership Academy, a novel approach to improving the practice of education leaders at scale across the Sunshine State. Designed […]

This guide equips school leaders with an eight-step model for coaching staff to define individual goals and identify what it takes to achieve and sustain desired results. Expand the leadership capacity of your school through: A simple but powerful coaching framework; Eight critical skills required to become a great coach; […]

The Shirley Hord Teacher Learning Team Award honors a team of teachers that demonstrates excellence in professional learning. This annual award recognizes a school-based learning team that exhibits evidence of successful implementation of a cycle of continuous improvement that results in increased teaching effectiveness. Learning Forward is now accepting applications […]

Monica Martinez has joined Learning Forward’s board of trustees. Martinez is senior school support strategist for XQ Institute, an organization dedicated to rethinking school in America. She was a senior fellow to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and appointed by President Obama to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational […]

The Learning Forward Foundation scholarship contest encourages educators to put the Learning Forward vision and ideas into action and apply their research and creativity to impact education's most profound challenges. The 2017 Learning Forward Foundation Scholarship awardees are: