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    Innovation Creative Sparks Fuel A New Vision For Learning

    February 2013

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    What's Happening Online

    What Research Tells Us 

    Content focus, longer duration, multiple activities, hands-on teacher learning, specific learning goals, and collective teacher participation are keys to professional learning that works.

    Capture The Human Side of Learning 

    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

    From the director By Stephanie Hirsh (Available to the public.)

    Abstracts 

    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 […]

    Ambitious Goals Highlight The Important — And Difficult — Tasks That Lie Ahead 

    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 Named Learning Forward’s Director of Marketing 

    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 […]

    Workbook Assesses Policies

    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, […]

    Networks Focus On Common Core 

    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 

    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 

    New strategic plan sets bold goals for 2020

    Belief In The Power Of Relationships Drives One Principal’s Efforts To Build Social Capi 

    Belief in the power of relationships drives one principal’s efforts to build social capital. (Available to the public.)

    Essentials 

    Great principals, Beating the odds, Retaining teachers, Action for Common Core, Linking leadership to achievement, Transforming teaching, Digital learning

    From The Editor 

    By Tracy Crow (Available to the public.)

    Tool 

    Criteria for selecting technology-enhanced professional learning

    Virtual Reality Check 

    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.

    Teachers Without Borders 

    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.

    Building Better Lessons 

    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 Digital Toolbox 

    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.

    Creative Sparks 

    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.

    Tapping Technology’s Potential 

    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.

    Up Close 

    Overheard at the conference, What's next

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