Learning Forward

On your own or with a team, use these survey questions to surface perspectives on how your district office has shifted its approach, responsibilities, and support for standards-based professional learning. Use the questions to engage in discussion about what shifts might be valuable. Plan Learning Effectively At whatever level they […]

A theory of change helps educators articulate what specific actions lead to the achievement of a vision.

Preliminary discussion helps a team establish the work they’ve already done towards developing or using a vision to guide professional learning.

Groups discuss their assumptions, ideas, needs, and images of how a successful innovation, program, intervention, or overall learning system will contribute to improved outcomes, leading to the development of a guiding vision.

DALLAS—August 22, 2014—Like so many other educators, I am studying the recent poll results about public and educator opinions about Common Core State Standards, particularly from PDK International and Education Next, with great interest and concern. Learning Forward has consistently held the view that rigorous learning standards for students have […]

Becoming a Learning System offers tools, strategies, and knowledge to develop continuous improvement systems. DALLAS—August 7, 2014—Learning Forward, the nation’s largest professional learning membership association, is pleased to join Fort Wayne Community Schools (FWCS) in celebrating their successful efforts to build effective leadership and learning systems that lead to improved […]

Focus on Teaching: How Video Changes Everything In this webinar, author Jim Knight explores the potential of video recording to reach new levels of excellence in schools. Explore how video can improve teaching methods by helping educators understand what their current teaching methods are. Knight outlines a clear process for […]

With the accountability age in full swing, the Papillion-La Vista School District in Papillion, Nebraska, has taken a proactive stance to improve learning for all students, focusing directly on the human element as the change agent. The district has implemented a systemic and systematic continuous improvement process that fosters quality […]

When teachers collaborate in schools, taking collective responsibility to improve instruction and achieve goals, student performance improves. When teachers collaborate statewide, the same good results happen. Wyoming is one example of a state that uses peer-to-peer professional learning, and the results are notable. When teachers joined together to form a […]