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Content focus, longer duration, multiple activities, hands-on teacher learning, specific learning goals, and collective teacher participation are keys to professional learning that works.
The growth of digital power has aided and abetted the spread of accountability-driven data, but educators need to know what to do with all that information. The authors identify and illustrate four areas to focus improvement efforts: assessment, instruction, leadership, and ownership.
From the director By Stephanie Hirsh (Available to the public.)
Tapping Technology’s Potential: Shrinking budgets, looming standards, and a dizzying array of innovations are changing the professional learning landscape. By Joellen Killion While technology can enhance professional learning, how it is used […]
Peter Senge, an internationally recognized thought leader, defines a learning organization as a place “where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive […]
Robert Tess, a veteran of marketing in for-profit and nonprofit organizations, is Learning Forward’s new director of marketing. In this role, Tess is responsible for marketing the Learning Forward brand […]
A new workbook will assist states and districts in conducting a self-guided review of professional learning policies. Professional Learning Policy Review: A Workbook for States and Districts, a Learning Forward publication, […]
Building on its Transforming Professional Learning initiative, Learning Forward has launched a new project that will establish three key networks to strengthen educators’ capacity to implement Common Core State Standards […]
Book Club: THE SKILLFUL TEAM LEADER-A Resource for Overcoming Hurdles to Professional Learning for Student Achievement
New strategic plan sets bold goals for 2020
Belief in the power of relationships drives one principal’s efforts to build social capital. (Available to the public.)
Great principals, Beating the odds, Retaining teachers, Action for Common Core, Linking leadership to achievement, Transforming teaching, Digital learning
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Researchers at the University of Kansas added a new twist to bug-in-ear coaching: using student avatars in a virtual classroom setting. Combining these two technologies makes a powerful professional learning experience for four secondary teachers.
Panelists discuss how their organizations used innovative strategies and the insights they gained along the way in these excerpts from a session on innovative professional development at Learning Forward’s 2012 Annual Conference.
As teachers grapple with implementing Common Core standards, they turn to innovative programs such as LearnZillion and the Literacy Design Collaborative to help them build better lessons.
The growing acceptance of collaboration as a necessity in high-quality learning has fueled the rapid growth of online tools to better support educators. This guide offers an introduction to collaboration technology tools and services.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s deputy director of education discusses what iPD looks like and how the foundation is challenging districts to rethink what it means to be an effective learning system. Q&A with Carina Wong.
As individuals, schools, districts, and states strive to meet the demand for professional learning generated by Common Core standards and other emerging initiatives in education, effective use of technology requires careful consideration and planning.
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