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Maximizing Resources
August 2025
This issue offers advice about making the most of professional learning resources, including money, time, personnel, and technology.
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In This Issue
FOCUS
Sustaining professional learning in challenging times
This issue delves into strategies for securing and making the most of the resources at your disposal, including money, time, people, and technology.
6 strategies for sustainable professional learning
These six factors are usually present in successful long-term professional learning initiatives – and they don’t all take dollars to implement.
How to maximize coaching’s return on investment
Two Texas districts used a system strategy ROI lens to align coaching resources, improve outcomes, and invest where it counts most.
An AI skills framework to measure and improve educators’ tech use
When an Illinois district went all in on integrating AI, leaders designed a matrix to help all staff assess their knowledge and build confidence in using AI tools.
Leadership development that lasts
A new framework and a set of case studies explain how states and districts can ensure the longevity and consistency of pipelines that develop school leaders.
In the age of AI, we need coaches more than ever
Ethical and practical considerations should guide how AI can support, not replace, instructional coaches.
Infographic: Make the most of professional learning resources
Considerations for maximizing resources, at a glance.
TOOLS
How to use publications as professional learning tools
Articles can lead to meaningful learning experiences when facilitators structure reflective group discussion that builds shared understanding.
Ground resource decisions in Standards for Professional Learning
Discussion questions to help you apply the standards as you implement strategies from this issue.
IDEAS
Q & A: Keeping the focus on kids
Connecting deeply with students through youth culture, conversation, and care lays the groundwork for rigor, resilience, and joy in teaching, says keynote speaker for the Learning Forward Annual Conference.
Continuous improvement leads to great thinking in chaotic times
Improvement methods grounded in history and community can help schools thrive, even in turbulent times.
Professional learning inspired by the forest, not the factory: ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
Natural patterns such as waves, fractals, and spirals provide inspiration for meaningful learning experiences that break away from uniformity and mass production.
RESEARCH
Study finds benefits of team teaching
Team-based staffing with shared decision-making is linked to lower teacher turnover and higher job satisfaction, offering a new and promising path for supporting educators.
Data points
The latest research on AI, mentoring, coaching, and professional learning impact.
VOICES
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