Thomas Manning
Tom Manning is an education consultant and former Senior Vice President of Professional Services for Learning Forward. For Learning Forward, he led the strategy, management, and business development for consulting and technical assistance services. He advanced Learning Forward’s vision by establishing and maintaining professional service partnerships with states, districts, and schools, and managed a cadre of more than 40 education consultants working across North America. He previously served as Learning Forward’s Associate Director of E-Learning, leading the design and implementation of the association’s online courses, webinars, and virtual learning communities. Prior to joining Learning Forward in 2009, he covered education as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman. He authored a chapter in the book Powerful Designs for Professional Learning (3rd ed.), and has been published in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. Originally from Boston, Tom received a Bachelor of Arts in English and journalism from Texas Christian University.
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Mentoring New Teachers: A Framework for Growth
Mentoring New Teachers: A Framework for Growth Pre-order now - Ships in early December Real Support That Leads to Student Success New teachers typically assume the same responsibilities as veteran teachers yet receive little meaningful support. Most learn by trial and error, especially when they enter the profession through non-traditional […] -
Better than a buddy system: A framework for new teacher mentoring
In the majority of schools, a new teacher assumes essentially the same responsibilities as an experienced one. This puts the novice teacher — and her students — at a significant disadvantage. New teachers often lack the real-world wisdom, experience, resources, and skills veteran teachers have gained from years of experience. […] -
Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) Lunch & Learn
The Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) is a confidential, web-based survey that schools and districts have used to measure their alignment with the standards, identify strengths and areas of focus in their professional learning, and plan professional learning that gets results for teachers and students. Standards Assessment Inventory results help schools […] -
Data collection tool drives professional learning improvements
Collecting evidence of professional learning’s impact starts with assessing the current state of professional learning in any school or system. Measuring whether and how practices are impacting teaching and learning can shape the approaches that systems start, stop, and continue and increases the likelihood that professional learning strategies and programs […] -
Is your professional learning high-quality? Standards Assessment Inventory provides insights
Consider a scenario where you’re a member of a school's in-house instructional staff and you receive a link to a professional learning survey from someone at the district. For a moment you think, “Wait, I already turned in my exit ticket…the room was too cold but we had an interesting […] -
Mentors make a difference
Middle school teacher Leighann Fields remembers her earliest teaching experiences with mixed emotions. “When I was student teaching, the teacher I worked with had been at the school forever, and she knew so much. But she didn’t share it with me. I had to reinvent the wheel while I was […] -
Making mentoring work online
Effective mentors set clear expectations for their work with the teachers they support. This is a critical step in the process of building trust between mentor and mentee, and it is never more important than when mentors conduct observations of teachers as they engage in classroom instruction. With much teaching […] -
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Louisiana is taking the lead in mentoring new teachers
Many of us have been lucky enough in our lives that we can identify someone we'd call a mentor, someone who taught us how things work and helped us navigate through the difficulties we face trying to establish ourselves. For some of us, our mentor may very well have been […] -
Louisiana is taking the lead in mentoring new teachers
Many of us have been lucky enough in our lives that we can identify someone we’d call a mentor, someone who taught us how things work and helped us navigate through the difficulties we face trying to establish ourselves. For some of us, our mentor may very well have been […]
