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Measuring the Impact of Professional Learning

April 2017
Vol. 38 No. 2

Overcoming common challenges when trying to measure how professional learning initiatives improve teacher and student learning.

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FOCUS

Why evaluations fail 

To achieve meaningful results, address these common challenges.

Pilot program aims high

Challenges en route help district find success in measuring impact.

Partners in a common cause 

External evaluators team with practitioners to build data use practices.

Learning that's made to measure 

Embedded assessments gauge educators’ growth and impact.

Where do you want to get to? 

Effective professional learning begins with a clear destination in mind.

Why Standards for Professional Learning Matter 

A visual reminder of the benefits and importance of the Standards for Professional Learning.

TOOLS

Align your district's professional learning under ESSA 

Tools from A New Vision for Professional Learning: A Toolkit to Help States Use ESSA to Advance Learning and Improvement Systems

IDEAS

What literacy means in math class 

Teacher team explores ways to remake instruction to develop students’ skills.

Growing support for principals 

Principal supervisors collaborate and problem solve in learning communities.

An argument for learning 

Science teachers and students build literacy through text-based investigations.

RESEARCH

Essentials 

Research on strengthening leadership, new teachers, and decoding ESSA.

Research Review 

Meta-analysis reveals coaching’s positive impact on instruction and achievement

VOICES

Scott Laurence

Voices

Being Forward 

Stephanie Hirsh

Voices

Ask 

Michael McNeff

Voices

What I've Learned 

Tracy Crow

Voices

Our take

Eric Celeste Celeste

Voices

Here we go

Pasi Sahlberg

Voices

I Say 

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