Lois Brown Easton
Consultant, Coach, and Author
Lois Easton works as a consultant, coach, and author and is a senior consultant with Learning Forward. Her work focuses on learning designs for adults and struggling students. Easton retired in 2005 as director of professional development with Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center, Estes Park, Colorado. Easton is the editor and a contributor to Powerful Designs for Professional Learning.
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Powerful Designs for Professional Learning 3rd Edition
Filled with 24 learning designs, the latest edition of Learning Forward's bestseller helps educators understand the kinds of learning experiences that result in changed practices and better results for students. The book includes chapters authored by more than 30 of the field's leading experts in adult learning. Context-setting chapters help […] -
Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning
In this webinar, Amy Colton and Georgea Langer provide an overview of the Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning (CASL) learning design, including why the CASL design works, and how teacher practices change using the design. Topics include: An overview of two models for evaluating the effectiveness of a learning design; […] -
Powerful Designs Instructional Rounds
In this webinar, Lois Brown Easton and Lee Teitel continue our three-week mini-series on learning designs with a discussion of a model for implementing instructional rounds that increase teacher collaboration and student achievement. Topics include: An overview of two models for evaluating the effectiveness of a learning design; Connecting rounds […] -
Principles of Design Energize Learning Communities
At School A, the professional learning community is engaged in implementing a mandated mathematics program. At School B, the professional learning communities are grade-level teams of teachers and classroom aides pursuing their own agendas for improvement according to school goals. At School C, mixed grade-level and subject-area professional learning communities […] -
The why, how, and what of professional learning
The why, how, and what of professional learning -
Protocols: A facilitator’s best friend
Protocols: A facilitator's best friend