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Tracy Crow

Chief Strategy Officer (Retired)

Tracy Crow formerly served as the chief strategy officer/chief communications officer for Learning Forward. She led the revision and dissemination of Standards for Professional Learning and associated tools. Tracy also oversaw publications and communications functions for Learning Forward, including the bimonthly membership magazine The Learning Professional, formerly known as JSD. She oversaw the acquisition, creation, and production of books published by Learning Forward and coordinated the creation and dissemination of white papers and other publications. Tracy contributed to Learning Forward’s branding strategy, website content, and webinars.

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    I am surrounded by long-distance runners, people who love to race and set goals and meet them. I attend enough marathons to have a well-worn spectator routine and a series of vocal exercises to get myself in shape for serious cheering. Recently, my husband and his sister were discussing the […]

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    JSD: In your work preparing the McKinsey report, How the World’s Best- Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, you found that several policies and approaches delivered superior results for students. Can you describe those? Barber: There were basically four key messages from looking at the best systems in the […]

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    Social scientist Samuel Popkin wrote about the concept of “gut rationality” to explain how voters make decisions during presidential elections (1994). His theory is that voters take a bit of new information about a candidate, add that to their experiences, knowledge, and biases, and make their choice. Voters count on […]

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    JSD: I'd like you to talk about two key aspects of your work. One is evaluating professional learning and the other is coaching. In Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development, 2nd Edition, you write, “Evaluation — not just data — is increasingly important for changing schools. … The use of data, […]

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    JSD: As we have been compiling this issue of JSD on professional learning communities, I have been fascinated by how many schools and districts are seizing the concept of community, and yet how relatively few examples there seem to be of effective working communities. Why is this concept so hot […]

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    Teamwork is one of those words with the power to make me cringe no matter how much I sincerely believe in the concept behind it. I suspect I’m not the only one. Yes, we’re all for team building, being a team player, taking one for the team, putting team before […]

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    JSD: In 2007, you wrote in JSD that “educators should begin to act more like professionals.” What do you mean by that? Elmore: My basic belief is that education is a profession without a practice. One of the reasons why we have relatively little influence over the terms and conditions […]

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    Stephanie Hirsh and Joellen Killion open their book The Learning Educator: A New Era For Professional Learning (NSDC, 2007, p.11) with these words as they outline a set of eight principles to guide professional learning in the coming years. After reading about effective professional learning for principals, the connection between […]

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