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Fundamentals
June 2016
Vol. 37 No. 3
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In This Issue
ARTICLES
Advice From Learning Professionals
JSD: What do you wish you had known when you first began your journey as a learning leader? Milliones: I wish I would have understood the power of the default […]
Advice From Learning Professionals
JSD: What do you wish you had known when you first began your journey as a learning leader? Hair: It’s not about the wisdom you bring to the group, but […]
Advice From Learning Professionals
JSD: What do you wish you had known when you first began your journey as a learning leader? Warren: I wish that I had known the importance of establishing priority […]
Advice From Learning Professionals
JSD: What do you wish you had known when you first began your journey as a learning leader? McFarland: I wish I had a better understanding of the change process […]
The Promise Of Partnerships
Some of the valuable learning that practicing educators gain about how to do their jobs better comes neither from intentionally designed professional learning nor daily on-the-job experience and reflection. An […]
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Best Practice Takeaways A recent study highlights a pattern of common professional learning practices across four high-performing education systems. In the Winter 2016 issue of Tools for Learning Schools, […]
A New Role And A New Vision For The Road Ahead
I recently met a woman who is leaving a school system after 14 years to work for a technical assistance agency. She had limited professional learning leadership experience beyond the […]
Abstracts
Lay the foundation for great teaching and learning. By Eric Celeste Whether they are just building their skill set or need a refresher after decades in the professional learning field, […]
Book Club
The Transformative Power Of Collaborative Inquiry: Realizing Change in Schools and Classrooms By Jenni Donohoo and Moses Velasco This guide helps school leaders shape the development of a sustainable professional […]
New Study Will Examine Professional Learning In Canada
In collaboration with Canadian researchers and education stakeholders, Learning Forward has launched a research study examining the state of professional learning across Canada. The study’s purpose is to understand the […]
Professional Learning In Essa: 3 Next Steps
With the recent release of the U.S. Department of Education’s draft regulations for implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Learning Forward is encouraging educators to offer their input […]
Foundation Announces 2016 Award Winners
The Learning Forward Foundation, which supports the development of educators’ capacity to improve student learning through innovation and improvement that transform professional learning, has announced the 2016 winners of its […]
Keep These Essentials At The Ready For The Next Challenge
As a young boy in Colorado, I spent much of my time exploring, hiking, and climbing the Rocky Mountains. I learned early on the importance of being prepared for the […]
Learning Forward launches community of practice
Learning Forward has launched the Redesign PD Community of Practice to support 20 of the nation’s leading school districts and charter management organizations in addressing systemwide educator and student learning […]
Implementation Fidelity Affects The Degree Of Change In Teacher Practice
What The Study Says School improvement that depends on professional development as a primary means for implementing effective instructional practice requires deliberate attention to implementation fidelity of both the […]
Beyond The Workshop
The “If not a workshop, then what?” list on p. 55 is a popular bookmark and tool for Learning Forward members and learning leaders to use in conversations in school-based […]
Essentials
Facebook support, Teacher professionalism, Policy check-up Leading the way, Mapping knowledge, Online learning
Fundamentals Make A Difference At Every Skill Level
If I were to map my trajectory as a cook, plotting the growth of my ability to put a decent meal together, the line would be all over the place. […]
What Are We Learning About How We Learn?
Remarkably, although today’s world teems with pundits and policymakers telling us how to run schools and classrooms, they supply little support for research on what educators are actually like, how […]
Nimble Navigation
The purpose of professional learning is to change what teachers know and can do to better support student learning. Over the last decade, professional learning has changed dramatically in an […]
An Open Door To Learning
When I began my work as a curriculum consultant for a local school board more than 10 years ago, most professional development took place at the district office or another […]
Establish Time For Learning
The issue in brief The major challenge with time is finding it. Current school-day schedules and school-year calendars are leaner than ever because of budget reductions. States and districts have […]
Expanding Excellence
On the day her colleague Kathy Gray came to observe a lesson, Kimberly Worley was introducing an idea for projects to her 10th-grade biology students. Noticing students’ lack of enthusiasm, […]
The Sandwich Strategy
Teachers are regularly asked to use data to inform their instruction. In the past, teachers examined student work in isolation (Little, Gearhart, Curry, & Kafka, 2003). Now, however, teachers increasingly […]
Lay The Foundation For Great Teaching And Learning
With rare exception, leaders are made, not born. That’s because “leadership potential is not something that some people have and other people don’t,” note authors James M. Kouzes and Barry […]
Up Close
The Emphasis is on Effective Professional learning, often called professional development, can occur in a formal setting, such as a conference, workshop, or seminar, or in an informal context, such […]
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