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Seeing Teaching Through a Different Lens: The MyTeachingPartner-Secondary Coaching Model highlights the voices of coaches and teachers to provide information about an instructional coaching program that is helping educators improve interactions with students in ways that increase student engagement and achievement. The MyTeachingPartner (MTP) coaching program has a solid evidence […]

The Elements: Transforming Teaching through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning The Elements: Transforming Teaching through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning is a challenge paper from Carnegie Corporation of New York that explores how professional learning anchored in high-quality curriculum materials allows teachers to experience the instruction their students will receive and change their instructional […]

The Path to Instructional Excellence and Equitable Outcomes The Path to Instructional Excellence and Equitable Outcomes explores District of Columbia Public Schools' innovative approach to supporting teaching instruction, called Learning Together to Advance our Practice, or LEAP. LEAP is based on research that has found the most effective professional learning […]

Having multiple staff members at all levels across the district be active members of Learning Forward has helped us set a vision and foundation for high-quality, evidence-based, job-embedded and on-going professional learning that is built upon the Standards for Professional Learning.  From the Board level to administration and faculty, all […]

Learning Forward provides outstanding resources to support teacher and principal professional learning.  The consistent use of Learning Forward resources in our school district has resulted in a unified direction of our professional learning that has led to positive changes in teacher practice and improvements in student performance.

The value of having multiple staff as members of Learning Forward is the opportunity to develop common language and expectations about what valuable professional development is and means in our district.  The resources, publications and learning opportunities that Learning Forward provides also supports our goals for developing our district culture […]

Having multiple teams of educators join Learning Forward stimulated excitement and allowed us to work more cohesively as learning teams. It provided us a platform to norm practices and create common language around professional learning. The membership gave us access to powerful tools and resources that guided our thinking around transforming professional […]

The policy updates are, for me, one of the most valuable assets of Learning Forward.

I love the emphasis on advocacy for our field – the sample templates Learning Forward shares to communicate with state reps regarding policy, the up-to-date info about policy and legislation that could impact our field. I also really appreciate that Learning Forward is the standard-bearer for professional learning standards and provides a framework […]