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Tapping Technology’s Potential

Shrinking budgets, looming standards, and a dizzying array of innovations are changing the professional learning landscape.

By Learning Forward
February 2013
The breadth of the need for professional learning required to implement new content standards overwhelms most districts and states. Nearly all reports from teachers, district leaders, and state leaders include professional learning among the most frequently identified needs. As the call for professional learning that incorporates ongoing feedback and support increases and resources to address that need decline, more states, districts, schools, and individuals are turning to technology. Technology creates significant opportunities for more focused professional learning, especially when it is effectively integrated into a comprehensive system for professional learning; provides easy access to content that is relevant to individual, team, school, district, and state goals; and includes high-quality content, application of learning within the work setting, and constructive feedback and support over time to

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Joellen Killion

Joellen Killion (joellen.killion@learningforward.org) is senior advisor to Learning Forward.

Resources and tools for implementing Common Core State Standards

This article is excerpted from Meet the Promise of Content Standards: Tapping Technology to Enhance Professional Learning. This brief is just one of several resources created as part of Learning Forward’s initiative Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core.

The multidimensional initiative focuses on developing a comprehensive system of professional learning that spans the statehouse to the classroom. The project will reform policy and practice and apply innovative technology solutions to support and enhance professional learning.

With an immediate focus on implementing Common Core State Standards and new assessments, the initiative provides resources and tools to assist states, districts, and schools in providing effective professional learning for current and future education reforms. This work is supported by Sandler Foundation, MetLife Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Learn more at www.learningforward.org/advancing/implementingthecommoncore.cfm.

References

Benson, T., Fullan, M., Kegan, R., Madrazo, C., Quinn, J., & Senge, P. (2012). Developmental stories: Lessons of systemic change for success in implementing the new Common Core Standards: A report for Hewlett Foundation program on deep learning. Menlo Park, CA: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Johnson, L., Adams, S., & Cummins, M. (2012). NMC Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.

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