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Measuring Learning
June 2025
To know if your professional learning is successful, measure educators’ and students’ learning. This issue offers strategies and examples of a wide range of approaches for evaluation and storytelling.
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In This Issue
FOCUS
Research paints a full picture of professional learning
Research is a top priority for our readers and our organization. Let’s work together to build the evidence base.
Evaluating professional learning doesn’t have to be complicated
Even with limited resources, educators can use a range of practical evaluation methods to measure impact and drive continuous improvement.
The power of stories for understanding change
Empathy interviews, transfer chats, and student work samples are three ways to bring the power of stories to bear on your professional learning plans.
Discovering recipes for professional learning success
Qualitative comparative analysis uncovers factors that are common across effective professional learning initiatives.
Incorporating student voice and feedback to improve evaluation
Students can offer unique insights into how professional learning translates into classroom practice and affects their learning.
4 evaluation insights from powerful partnerships
To make evaluation meaningful and useful, identify success criteria, go beyond satisfaction surveys, look at organizational change, and involve all stakeholders.
TOOLS
Is your team ready to lead?
A team readiness assessment fosters collaboration, identifies growth areas, and helps teams boost student outcomes through intentional professional learning.
Measuring learning with Standards for Professional Learning
Discussion questions to help you apply the standards as you implement strategies from this issue.
IDEAS
Illinois district’s instructional framework delivers improvement
Thanks to a districtwide effort to create consistent expectations, instructional strategies, and professional learning, Cary 26’s students are improving.
Transforming professional learning in Northern Kentucky
How a regional educational cooperative is accelerating quality and impact with a deep dive into the Standards for Professional Learning.
Summer reading and listening recommendations
Find your next great read or listen with Learning Forward’s staff recommendations.
RESEARCH
A roundup of the latest research on curriculum-based professional learning
Curriculum-based professional learning is gaining traction but awareness gaps remain. Current research highlights momentum, challenges, and next steps.
Data points
New research on literacy instruction and the state of the educator workforce.
VOICES
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