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Niki Gamble
Niki Gamble is director/partnerships & products at Learning Forward. She advances Learning Forward’s mission, vision and strategic priorities by supporting and maintaining over 30 state, provincial and international affiliates. She is the staff liaison to the Learning Forward Foundation and manages the online bookstore. She’s worked with Learning Forward over 17 years and is passionate about professional learning for teachers to raise student achievement levels. Niki received her bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Miami University (OH).
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Reclaiming Personalized Learning: A Pedagogy for Restoring Equity and Humanity in our Classrooms, 2nd Edition
Paul Emerich France It’s a paradox: technology to individualize curriculum has made classrooms less personal. Let’s instead trust educators to make learning personal by supporting student agency, self-awareness, and the intimate personal connections found in authentic learning experiences. In the second edition of this groundbreaking book—newly streamlined, and updated with […] -
Equity Warriors: Creating Schools That Students Deserve
George S. Perry, Jr., Joan Richardson We must act now, using what we already know, to advance equity and raise the achievement of every student. With three decades of leading equity work across the country, George S. Perry Jr. issues a call to action for educational leaders who are willing to fight […] -
Intentional Moves: How Skillful Team Leaders Impact Learning
Elisa B. MacDonald Leading a team means more than running meetings. It’s leading collaborative learning for continuous improvement. Like effective teachers in the classroom, skillful team leaders decide what they are aiming to achieve and make small, intentional moves to produce powerful learning outcomes for teachers and students. In this […] -
Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning: The Elements
James B. Short & Stephanie Hirsh Even the most experienced teachers provided with the highest quality instructional materials benefit from additional support to ensure student success. Simply adopting new instructional materials is unlikely to significantly change teacher practice. Ensuring a level of excellence that benefits all students calls for an […] -
Putting FACES on the Data: What Great Leaders & Teachers Do!
Lyn Sharratt & Michael Fullan Waves of data—indigestible, dehumanized, and disaggregated—are crashing into the education system every day, driving you to distraction. But imagine a world where you’re not being drowned by data, but inspired by it; where that data has a FACE and gives you focused information on how […] -
The Learning Professional: December 2022 - Disrupting Inequity
This issue examines professional learning strategies to start the work and stay the course. -
Action Guide for the Principal: IC Map for Standards
An essential, hands-on resource, this action guide helps principals implement Standards for Professional Learning in meaningful, effective ways. Standards for Professional Learning describe the content, processes, and conditions for professional learning that leads to high-quality leading, teaching, and learning. This role-specific action guide describes the steps principals can take to […] -
The Learning Professional: October 2022 - Teaching in Turbulent Times
Professional learning can help educators navigate the competing priorities, increasing student needs, and intense pressure they are experiencing today. This issue examines how. -
The Learning Professional: August 2022 - Nurturing New Teachers
New teachers have unique professional learning needs and challenges. Leaders have a unique opportunity to start them on a path of ongoing career development. This issue examines how to build systems of support that provide new teachers what they need for their first years in the classroom and well beyond. -
The Learning Professional: June 2022 - Setting the Standard
This issue celebrates the 2022 revision of Standards for Professional Learning. It explains how and why the standards have been updated, provides examples of how educators at all levels are applying them to improve their work, and shares tools for implementing standards in your own context.
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