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Time for Learning In this webinar, Learning Forward Senior Advisor Joellen Killion leads a discussion of a seven-step process for establishing time within the school day for professional learning. Topics […]
An external coach takes a tongue-in-cheek look at how to spend professional development time and money. (Available to the public.)
A 10- to 15-minute content analysis conversation benefits teachers and students by generating clearer thinking about the teacher's objectives, what ideas should be highlighted, and what relationship the ideas in the content have to each other.
What leaders can do to create a high-performing data culture in their school or district.
From the director By Stephanie Hirsh (Available to the public.)
Investments in Professional Learning Must Change: The goals are ambitious, the stakes are high — and resources are the key. By Joellen Killion and Stephanie Hirsh Traditional professional development is […]
Learning Forward Foundation award winners
Taking measure of strategic priorities
Leadership at all levels
Book Club
Principals institute in Fort Wayne
Perfectionism limits our chances to risk, learn, grow, and succeed.
Establishing time for professional learning. (Available to the public.)
Engaging teachers, Smarter spending, Measuring student skills, Blended learning benefits, Online vs. face-to-face, Improving math scores, Digital tools
From The Director (Available to the Public)
A writing program for middle school using a norming protocol offers important lessons for expanding teachers' assessment capabilities through professional learning.
Step-by-step, teachers in a New Hampshire district gained a shared understanding of the Common Core standards. District support was crucial to the process. Here's what they learned along the way. (Available to the public.)
Literacy gets a makeover: Engaged learning boosts student achievement at Michigan High SchoolDownloadNow_small By Richard E. Wood and Helen L. Burz Teachers at E.A. Johnson High School in Mt. Morris, Mich., focused on effective literacy practices for learning, resulting in dramatic gains in student performance and reading assessment.
Teachers, curriculum experts, and other educators work together using online tools developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create high-quality, useful lessons and research-based instructional tools incorporating the Common Core State Standards.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Schools addresses the switch to Common Core with an internal website for teachers to share performance tasks and systemwide, school-based professional learning that has put the standards into practice.
Traditional professional development is inadequate to meet the changes demanded by Common Core. Effective professional learning requires clear outcomes, a long-term plan for supporting implementation, and committed resources. A list of recommended investments in professional learning points the way. (Available to the public.)
Put the Partner in ‘Partnership’ Third-party providers help school systems meet their goals of providing high-quality education to every student. As external providers, they offer the services, products, and goods […]
Sometimes new information and situations call for major change. This issue shows how professional learning helps educators pivot, by bridging the gap between knowing better and doing better.Read the remaining […]
What does professional learning look like around the world? This issue explores what educators can learn from each other across geographic borders.Read the remaining content with membership access. Join or […]
Technology is both a topic and a tool for professional learning. This issue examines benefits, challenges, and what learning leaders need to know.Read the remaining content with membership access. Join […]
How do you know your professional learning is working? This issue digs into evaluation purposes, methods, tools, and results.