For education leaders, stress and challenges are part of the job – but resilience can be, too. This issue highlights how professional learning enables leaders to manage stress, navigate competing priorities, and maintain focus on instructional leadership. Building resilient leadership helps everyone in schools thrive.
Resilience isn’t something you can give to another person, but you can establish the conditions for it and cultivate it like a garden.
Resilient leaders use strategies and routines to balance competing priorities.
Five experts share their advice about managing challenges and staying focused.
Responsiveness is key to New Jersey district’s learning design, thanks to five key factors.
A mobile app helps leaders overcome isolation through virtual book club.
A Utah initiative addresses unique needs of turnaround school leaders.
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Targeted learning can build leaders’ knowledge in content they haven’t taught.
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Build resilient leadership through the lens of the Standards for Professional Learning.
Five discussion questions make equity front and center in learning communities.
Three leaders from Des Moines, Iowa share how principal supervisors are improving their district.
Academic teaming builds social, emotional, and cognitive success for English learners.
Virtual innovation network provides flexibility to connect anytime from anywhere.
Project AIM focuses on improving mathematics discourse for all elementary students, particularly English learners.
A rural support system connects superintendents.
Increasing research on professional learning is a priority for Learning Forward.
The latest on reviewing instructional materials, school leader turnover, and teachers’ knowledge of learning differences and growth mindset.
Amid crisis, there is opportunity that can galvanize change. This issue examines what educators have learned over the past year and how it can shape practice moving forward. It also includes a special section on nurturing educator wellness.
Excellent educators are made, not born, and it takes a system-wide approach to build the workforce. This issue examines how to build a strong, diverse pipeline from pre-service and induction to expert practice and leadership. It highlights the roles of K-12 systems, higher education, government, and non-profit organizations.
What does it mean to support learning in challenging times? It means listening, communicating, and leading with empathy. It means committing to anti-racism and breaking down structural barriers to equity. This issue examines ways to do so in professional learning.
Technology constantly creates new opportunities for professional learning. Never have those developments been as important as they are now, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This issue examines how strategies like online mentoring, bug-in-ear coaching, virtual collaboration, and video observation have built educator capacity before and during the pandemic.