Learning Forward

WASHINGTON—May 22, 2013— State education leaders should take the lead in efforts to create more coherent, comprehensive, and sustained statewide professional learning systems that help educators at every level meet the promise of the Common Core, according to a new policy brief released today by Learning Forward. Seizing the Moment: State […]

DALLAS—May 8, 2013— Learning Forward and Corwin announced the eighth-grade math team at Santa Fe Junior High School in Santa Fe, Texas, as the winner of the Shirley Hord Learning Team Award. This award is given to a team of teachers that demonstrates Learning Forward's definition of professional learning in action. […]

DALLAS—April 9, 2013— Learning Forward announces the release of Establishing Time for Professional Learning, a workbook designed to guide districts and schools as they develop, assess, and implement recommendations for increasing collaborative learning time for educators. Finding time for job-embedded professional learning is one of the most frequently cited challenges with implementing […]

Imagine the opportunity to invest in 2½ years of thoughtful and stimulating interaction and learning with colleagues from around the nation and beyond. In 2010, Karla McAdam was the winner of a competitive Learning Forward Foundation scholarship that allowed her to do just that. McAdam, then a district resource reading […]

In September 2009, the Detroit public school now known as Dixon Educational Learning Academy was best described by terms too often used to characterize persistently low-performing urban schools — frequent leadership turnover, demoralized staff, student violence, poor attendance, a physical plant in horrendous shape, episodic and irrelevant professional learning, and […]

Learning Forward’s Data standard advocates using data from a variety of sources and types — including student, educator, and system data — to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning. This presents several challenges, beginning with the emphasis on a variety of sources and types. The pressures of No Child Left […]

The Collaborative Compact: Operating principles lay the groundwork for successful group work. By Robert J. Garmston and Diane P. Zimmerman When leaders know how to facilitate with elegance and intervene to maintain engagement, they teach by example and create smart collaborators. Accordingly, group members learn to manage their own behavior […]

A new tool for implementing the standards Thanks to MetLife Foundation, Learning Forward continues to develop tools that lead to deeper implementation of the Standards for Professional Learning. Available soon are the next set of Innovation Configuration maps. Standards Into Practice: School System Roles presents IC maps for those who […]

Browse the Bookshelves  Learning Forward’s Bookstore has a new look to make it even easier for shoppers to find the resources they need to strengthen their professional learning library. See what’s new, browse the best sellers, or shop by category of interest. New titles include Standards Into Practice: School-Based Roles, […]

Learning Forward members have a chance to share the valuable tools and resources they receive and earn membership rewards by referring a friend or colleague to join Learning Forward. Through the membership referral program, members receive $10 off their next membership renewal for every new member they recruit. Here’s how […]