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    Building bridges

    December 2024

    Students benefit when educators bridge the continuum of professional learning between K-12 schools and other institutions.  

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    FOCUS

    Build bridges with student success in mind

    Paid residencies may be the key to promoting equity, retention, and professional growth for both new and veteran teachers.

    A more equitable model for teacher residencies 

    Paid residencies may be the key to promoting equity, retention, and professional growth for both new and veteran teachers.

    A coaching endorsement program blossoms in Utah

    Developing partnerships across the state helped fuel the success of Utah's Instructional Coaching Endorsement program.

    Teaming up to improve literacy in Tennessee: Q&A with Sharon Roberts and Courtney Bell 

    The Learning Forward publications team often wants to follow up on the current state of all the inspiring, system-changing work we’ve encountered through the stories told in this magazine. When […]

    School-university partnerships foster lasting change in Mississippi 

    The National Center for School-University Partnerships uses improvement science to build sustainable professional learning partnerships.

    At a glance 

    Professional learning priorities and payoffs.

    TOOLS

    How well is change progressing in your school or system?

    A Levels of Use tool helps leaders understand where educators are in implementing change.

    5 tips for documenting professional learning’s impact 

    Everyone can and should conduct some type of impact evaluation, regardless of your experience or resources. Here’s how.

    IDEAS

    Professional learning and development that honors students’ identities 

    Understanding the complexity of students’ identities is a vital foundation for inclusion, achievement, and equity in education.

    Multilingual students benefit when grade-level and specialist teachers collaborate

    Bringing ESL and grade-level teachers together in a yearlong, job-embedded professional learning experience increases student learning.

    RESEARCH

    Data points

    The latest on deeper learning, superintendent turnover, ESSER funding, teachers’ professional learning requests, and more.

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