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    Foundation partners with districts to explore innovation

    By Learning Forward
    December 2018
    Vol. 39 No. 6
    Teachers engaged in high-quality professional learning are akin to hikers venturing into unknown terrain. Experienced companions are invaluable as they negotiate the complexities of the change process. That is why members of the Learning Forward Foundation serve as guides for the educators we support with our grants. The trek of administrators in New Jersey’s North Brunswick Township Public Schools demonstrates how the Learning Forward Foundation walks side-by-side with grantees in support of professional learning and student success. The Innovation Think Tank In 2015, Janet Ciarrocca, an elementary school principal in North Brunswick, was starting out on a new trail. She had engaged her teaching staff in the New Jersey Department of Education’s statewide pilot of the Connected Action Roadmap Framework and the results were encouraging.

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    Janet Ciarrocca (jciarrocca@nbtschools.org) is director of curriculum, instruction, and technology in North Brunswick Township Schools, New Jersey. Amy B. Colton (acolton2@gmail.com) is a board member of the Learning Forward Foundation and executive director of Learning Forward Michigan. Edward F. Tobia (edftobia@gmail.com) is a board member of the Learning Forward Foundation.


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