The Power Of Equity-focused Professional Learning

NETWORKS AT WORK

The power of equity-focused professional learning

By Paul Fleming

Categories: Collaboration, Implementation, Leadership, Reaching all students, School leadership

Principals are a critical lever for implementing schoolwide policies, practices, and mindsets that create equitable outcomes for all students (Gates et al., 2019; Grissom et al., 2021). Yet school systems often overlook the kind of high-quality professional learning that results in leaders’ growth and development. Learning Forward networks are one of the ways we try to fill this gap and ensure continuous improvement for principals and other school leaders, such as assistant principals and heads of school. Our leadership networks bring together school leaders from across buildings and across districts to learn with and from one another. That collaboration helps leaders break through the isolation many of them feel in their buildings. The conversations and action planning we facilitate help them address pressing challenges that

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References

Gates, S.M., Baird, M.D., Master, B.K., & Chavez-Herrerias, E.R. (2019). Principal pipelines: A feasible, affordable, and effective way for districts to improve schools. Rand Corporation.

Grissom, J.A., Egalite, A.J., & Lindsay, C.A. (2021, February). How principals affect students and schools. The Wallace Foundation.

Learning Forward. (2022). Standards for Professional Learning. Author.

Paul Fleming

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Paul Fleming serves as chief learning officer at Learning Forward. His current areas of focus include leading the effective implementation of the Standards for Professional Learning and corresponding tools, the expansion of our professional services and leadership and learning series teams, and multiple consulting projects with states and districts to increase educator and leader effectiveness through student-focused, high quality professional learning.