Why is she coming to our team meeting again? Will she come into my classroom today? What will she say and “recommend”? I don’t need any help!  All these questions and comments raced through my head as I walked into the classroom. I was fully aware of the passive aggressive behavior that my colleagues exhibited…

Washington, D.C. – *Update* The May 22 National Title II-A Day of Action successfully activated educators from around the U.S. to send messages en masse to their Congress members urging their support for an increase in funding for Title II-A. The educators’ ask to Congress: $2.4 billion for Title II-A in FY 2025. Yesterday’s effort…

Learning Forward celebrates the work of teachers all year long, but during Teacher Appreciation Week, we turn up the volume. This year we’re offering a free bundle of wellness-centered articles to show our appreciation for teachers everywhere. These short articles were written by expert contributors for the 2023 “Focus on Wellness” column in The Learning…

After Congress finally completed work on fiscal year 2024 appropriations in late March, it immediately began work on fiscal year 2025 Appropriations by holding hearings on the President’s budget and developing new funding bills. Learning Forward has also begun ramping up its work in support of Title II-A, which received level funding in the FY…

Nearly one year into their engagement in a Learning Forward Curriculum-Based Professional Learning network, educators from Montgomery County Public Schools are poised to describe their promising new practices supporting curriculum-based professional learning and showcase early improvements they’re seeing for both educators and students. Three educators from the Maryland district recently joined a Standards for Professional…

When education leader Denise Stevens joined a Learning Forward forum recently to talk about the impact high-quality professional learning is making in her district, she didn’t rein in her effusive assessment of where they are, and cited a couple of proof points. “Individuals are feeling empowered and supported. What our induction principals are learning, they…

In preparation of the release of the April issue of The Learning Professional on technology and the future of learning, we asked educators on LinkedIn how they are leveraging AI in professional learning. The responses we received illustrate practical ways educators are integrating AI as they plan, facilitate, and assess professional learning. From analyzing for…

Learning Forward is very pleased that the U.S. Congress, in recognition of the value of professional learning to student learning and educator retention, has agreed to maintain level funding for Title II-A – the Supporting Effective Instruction Grants – in Fiscal Year 2024. We are particularly grateful for this result given the difficult budgeting environment…

Late last night, the Congressional Appropriations Committees unveiled their final agreement on fiscal year 2024 funding levels for the six appropriations bills that have not yet passed, including the Labor HHS Education bill. In this challenging budget environment and with an overall spending ceiling lower than in fiscal year 2023, the fact that this agreement…

Thomas Guskey’s five level framework for professional learning evaluation has our online community buzzing with appreciation and curiosity. Guskey’s evaluation framework is an adapted version of Kirkpatrick’s well-known four-level model of evaluation used mostly in the field of business. Guskey writes, in his article from The Learning Professional, that “early attempts to apply the [Kirkpatrick]…