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The Learning Forward Academy is Learning Forward’s flagship deep learning experience. When you join the Academy, your learning journey is no longer a solo experience. Instead, you will spend 2½ years working with expert coaches and practitioners from around the world as you construct knowledge, improve your practice, create better […]

Congratulations to Health Sciences Middle and High College in San Diego, California, winner of the Shirley Hord Learning Team Award. The annual award, named for the late Shirley Hord and sponsored by Corwin, honors a school-based team that successfully implements a teacher-led cycle of continuous improvement. Health Sciences was honored […]

Deborah Childs-Bowen was a decades-long Learning Forward friend and leader. When she died last December, our organization and our field lost a professional learning champion and friend. Childs-Bowen was elected to the NSDC (now Learning Forward) board of trustees in 2001, serving as president in 2005. In 2010, she received […]

The 2020 U.S. Congressional appropriations bill passed in December includes a significant increase in funding for Title IIA, the U.S.’s major source of federal funding for professional learning and school leadership development. The 3.7% increase is the first significant increase in a decade, and the highest percentage increase among any […]

The Chicago Host Committee is preparing for the 2020 Annual Conference, to be held Dec. 5-9 in Chicago, Illinois. Proposal scoring volunteers meet in Glendale Heights, Illinois, during February to score over 700 proposals. From there, Learning Forward’s staff and special guests will build the concurrent session program. Innovate for […]

Learning Forward’s Career Center has a new layout that allows users to spend less time searching and more time applying to relevant positions. You can now view job search results and job details on one screen, making searches faster. Check out the new features: Real-time filters: Same great advanced filters, […]

The White House announced this week that the President will be releasing his Fiscal Year 2021 Proposed Budget on February 10th, which will kickstart the FY2021 appropriations process. We anticipate that, as he has in each of the past three years, the President will ignore Congress’ firm support for Title […]

Dr. Deborah Childs-Bowen has been a friend and leader for Learning Forward for decades, as advocate and practitioner, board member and president, and senior consultant. We are incredibly saddened by her passing on Dec. 16. Early in her service to the organization, Deborah co-chaired a network to engage regional laboratory […]