Learning Forward

Eric Celeste has joined Learning Forward as associate director of publications. Celeste will help coordinate Learning Forward’s communication channels, primarily the member journal JSD, as well as the newsletter Tools for Learning Schools and the Education Week-hosted blog PD Watch. Celeste comes to Learning Forward after a long career editing […]

Learning Forward has released its Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) on the Amplify Professional Learning Maps platform. The partnership with Amplify — an industry leader in digital instruction, curriculum, and assessment — will provide schools and districts with an efficient and insightful method to determine the quality of professional learning their educators […]

This spring, Learning Forward will launch a 10-month partnership with Fort Bend Independent School District in Texas to develop a comprehensive professional learning plan that will guide educator learning in the system. Learning Forward senior consultant Linda Munger will facilitate the work of a professional learning task force made up […]

Establishing Time for Collaborative Professional Learning With this 10-hour, learn-at-your-own-pace online course, you can develop an in-depth understanding of why time should be built into the school day so teachers can learn and work together to improve their practice — and how that might be accomplished. Earn a certificate of completion, fulfill professional […]

Purpose: This tool will assist learners in gauging their own experience with standards implementation and determining solutions to common gaps in implementing the standards. Time required: 60 minutes. Preparation: Create table tents with each standard listed to use as part of the discussion and place them on separate tables. Make […]

Rethink Teaching  Smart, Skilled, and Striving: Transforming and Elevating the Teaching Profession Center for American Progress, November 2015 The report’s three authors argue that school districts have not reacted well to the enormous shifts in modern education, making it more difficult for teachers to succeed and subsequently eroding the public’s […]

A total of 39 states have adopted, adapted, or endorsed the Standards for Professional Learning, including the standards issued in 2011 (labeled in red) and those published earlier (labeled in blue). Making a commitment to the standards is a commitment to continuous learning for all educators in a school. What […]

Cultural proficiency is about serving the needs of all students, with a laser-like focus on historically underserved students. When education is offered in a culturally proficient manner, historically underserved students gain access to educational opportunities intended to result in high academic achievement. When education is delivered in a culturally proficient […]

Effective professional learning evaluation requires consideration of five critical stages or levels of information (Guskey, 2000a, 2002a, 2005). These five levels represent an adaptation of an evaluation model developed by Kirkpatrick (1959, 1998) for judging the value of supervisory training programs in business and industry. Kirkpatrick’s model, although widely applied, […]

Let’s investigate in detail the most powerful resource levers for improving instruction. The following strategies, incorporating our findings from district research, case studies, and research on best practices, provide school system leaders with proven options for monitoring, trading off, reallocating, and coordinating professional learning resources in ways that maximize teaching […]