Standards for Professional Learning Week
When: April 22-26, 2024
What: Join us during Standards for Professional Learning Week to learn how standards advance high-quality professional learning, provide solutions to education's toughest challenges, and change practices to improve results for students.
Daily learning events will feature lively discussions about effective, standards-aligned school systems that support educators in addressing student learning needs. Hear from educational leaders who implemented the standards in conjunction with their strategic goals to improve student outcomes. Field practitioners in various roles will share how effective educator professional learning can provide solutions to many of today’s challenges in K-12 education.
Conversations will be live-streamed from 3-3:30 p.m. ET, Monday April 22-Thursday April 25. Recordings for all sessions will be released Friday, April 26. Save the date(s), and check back here for more details!
Agenda
Each day will feature 30-minute conversational webinars from 3-3:30 p.m. ET.
Tuesday, April 23, 3-3:30 pm ET
Shifting from misalignment to rigor with high-quality curriculum and instructional materials
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Resources shared in the chat:
- "Practical measures tell us if change is making a difference" by Nick Morgan and Michelle Bowman
- Overview of the Curriculum-Based Professional Learning Network
- Principles for the Design of Mathematics Curricula: Promoting Language and Content Development -- Stanford Graduate School of Education
- "How math language routines are included in Illustrative Mathematics" by Kristen Taylor
Thursday, April 25, 3-3:30pm ET
Shifting from searching for support to using evidence-based tools to advance high-quality professional learning
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Resources shared in the chat:
- Standards for Professional Learning and associated resources.
- Evidence standard
- Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction standard
- Research about and research that informed the standards
- Interactive version of Advancing Outcomes tool
- PDF version Advancing Outcomes tool
- Role-based action guides
- Learning Forward online courses
- Self-paced online course for Standards for Professional Learning
- Learning Forward Academy
- Learning Forward’s networks