This year’s winner of the Learning Forward Foundation’s Affiliate Grant is Learning Forward Nebraska, under the direction of Chad Dumas. The affiliate’s three-year plan for professional learning proposes to expand Learning Forward’s Executive Leadership Program to multiple sites throughout Nebraska as a means to support education leaders who lack a critical understanding of change processes as well as effective facilitation skills for leading change. To help bridge the implementation gap, the affiliate will develop a website to support “rigorous education designs of professional learning.” In addition, the Learning Forward Nebraska board will build its capacity for advocating and supporting high-quality professional learning in order to empower Nebraska educators to be change agents in their contexts. As part of the grant, Learning Forward Nebraska will gather