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Teachers matter. Do our actions show that we believe this to be true? When treated as professionals and given the opportunity to participate in building and extending the profession, teachers rise to the occasion. School leaders in Colorado’s Cherry Creek School District put words into actions by developing teachers’ professional […]

You may have noticed a near absence of conversation about thorough evaluation of professional learning. Perhaps this topic has momentarily slipped off everyone’s agendas — too many other high-priority challenges. Maybe the silence correlates with the decline in federal grants requiring systematic monitoring and some degree of program evaluation to […]

According to the 2015 National Survey on College and Career-Ready Literacy Standards and Collaborative Professional Learning, 91% of teachers surveyed report working on standards implementation during collaborative time with colleagues, with 77% rating it valuable or extremely valuable in supporting their transition to new literacy standards. 73% of teachers who […]

Habits are, according to Stephen R. Covey in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, “the intersection of knowledge, skills, and desire” (2004, p. 47). They emerge from a deep understanding of what to do (knowledge), how to do it (skills), and why it must be done (desire). Beginning with […]

Words matter. They are principal vehicles of classroom instruction and lesson planning. The more clearly teachers articulate what is to be learned and the instructional practices to be used, the better they teach and the more likely students develop knowledge and skills. Words can be enigmatic. In education, many words […]

As Larry Gerardot, a principal in Fort Wayne (Indiana) Community Schools, sat in front of a computer, he had no idea how the new project in which he had been asked to participate would affect his work and the work of other principals. Yet he knew that Fort Wayne Community […]

Learning Forward is fortunate to work with stakeholders in a range of roles and from all kinds of contexts, including schools and systems, higher education, teacher associations, foundations, government, and corporations. While the people we work with cover a lot of ground in and beyond education, we have the luxury […]

The passages on these pages are drawn from articles that have been perennially popular on Learning Forward’s website. Read the passages, explore the full articles online, and consider the following questions: Why do these concepts continue to intrigue learning leaders? What implications do these ideas have for my practice? How […]

DALLAS — November 18, 2015 — Learning Forward and Corwin announce the Instructional Leadership Team from Braulio Alonso School in Tampa, Florida, as the winner of the 2015 Shirley Hord Learning Team Award. This award is given annually to a team of teachers that demonstrates Learning Forward’s definition of professional […]