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    Conduct Ongoing Assessment and Eevaluation

    By Learning Forward
    October 2013
    Assessment and evaluation have multiple purposes. First, they support continuous improvement. With data collected in formative and summative evaluations, leaders of professional learning systems have evidence to make improvements. Second, they generate evidence to determine whether the system is working both to support effective professional learning planning, implementation, and evaluation and to improve educator effectiveness and student success. In addition, an evaluation can inform resource investments. For a comprehensive professional learning system to work smoothly and to meet its many goals, all components of the system must be finely tuned and coherent. Recommended steps for the evaluation of a comprehensive professional learning system include: Plan the evaluation; Establish the evaluation framework; Conduct the evaluation; Report the evaluation; and Evaluate the evaluation. Included here are two

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    Comprehensive Professional Learning System

    A Workbook For States and Districts

    Learning Forward, 2013

    This workbook guides a team in reviewing, revising, or replacing an existing professional learning system. The process outlined and the tools included support the team in conducting all aspects of its work, usually done over several months, with continuous progress monitoring and input from research, experts, and constituents. The workbook is designed to be used by leaders in education agencies, including state departments or ministries of education, local school systems, and other governing agencies or organizations that provide professional learning.

    Available to download free at www. learningforward. org/publications/ implementing-common-core.

    References

    Killion, J. (2013). Comprehensive professional learning system: A workbook for states and districts. Oxford, OH: Learning Forward.


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