Learning Forward
Equity and excellence in teaching and learning.
Working with external partners
February 2011
Vol. 32 No. 1
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In This Issue
ARTICLES
Learning Forward Blog Now Available Through Education Week
Thanks to a valuable new partnership with Education Week, Learning Forward’s blog is now published through the Teacher magazine web site. “We are delighted to have been invited by Education […]
Killion Offers Next E-learning Program
Learning Forward Deputy Executive Director Joellen Killion facilitates a five-week e-learning program focused on planning and designing professional learning that maximizes results for educators and students. Learn strategies for setting […]
Book Club
Leading Academic Achievement for English Language Learners Authors Betty J. Alford and Mary Catherine Niño show how to shape a school culture conducive to high academic achievement for all students. […]
On Board
Well, howdy, partner! There’s my Learning Forward welcome, Texas style. Since this is my first column as president of Learning Forward and I am from Texas, I didn’t want to […]
How To Be A Wise Consumer Of Coaching
Instructional coaching is gaining popularity as a school-based effort to increase teacher effectiveness and student achievement. A coach can be broadly defined as a person who works collaboratively with a […]
Plagiarism Isn't Just An Issue For Students
Teresa Lozano was working in the high school library during her conference period, preparing for an upcoming lesson. As she searched for current information and bookmarked web sites, she overheard […]
From The Director
Educators guided by analysis of student data are in the best position to identify the help they need to address their most important challenges. While the first part of Learning […]
Abstracts
The Perfect Partnership: What it Takes to Build and Sustain Relationships that Benefit Students. By Joellen Killion When educators consider potential partnerships, they gain from thoughtfully examining several questions to […]
Collaborative Culture
Geoffrey Canada said in a recent presentation, “Education is the only business I know of where you can change anything you want, as long as you change nothing” (2010). After […]
Cultural Proficiency
We have always said that becoming culturally proficient is a journey, not a destination. Our four-stage model for developing cultural proficiency is based on the notion of continuous growth. And […]
Tool
Directions: Brainstorming is a way of generating an assortment of ideas without criticism or judgment about the quality of those ideas. The team leader, or another team member, can use […]
From The Editor
As professional learning has transformed from one-shot and short-term trainings into job- embedded, team-based, and results-driven professional development, so, too, has the perception of the external partner changed from the […]
Collaboration Paints A Bight Future For Arts Education
Ask a group of struggling elementary school students which ones want to give up a month of vacation to go to summer school, and you’ll see few, if any, raised […]
Fellowship Connects Principal Learning To Student Achievement
The holy grail of education leadership is that of the principal as instructional leader. Are aspiring principals effectively prepared for this role in the master’s degree programs that most states […]
The Inside-out Approach
In 1995, the California Department of Education convened a commission to develop academic content standards as part of a long-range plan for school accountability. California’s standards-based curriculum and assessment model […]
Identity Crisis
In a professional learning community, adults learn through focused conversations on teaching practices and teacher learning to support student learning. Teachers in a professional learning community push each other’s thinking […]
Real-time Learning, Real-world Teaching
At 4 o’clock on a Monday afternoon, more than an hour after students have left, 30 teachers gather in a classroom at the district office to discuss leadership styles in […]
The Light Bulb Clicks On
Sometimes partners find one another when they’re not looking. In South Carolina, education leaders at Georgetown County School District were seeking only information when they attended a workshop sponsored by […]
Partners At Every Level
As anyone in a partnership — a marriage, a business, a professional relationship — will attest, it takes hard work and energy, time and persistence, and reciprocal commitment to make […]
The Perfect Partnership
Schools and districts are beneficiaries of multiple opportunities to extend and enhance their core work of educating students through partnerships in two ways. These opportunities emerge either from invitations that […]
Up Close
Models of Strong Partners The Summer 2010 issues of Learning Forward’s newsletters highlighted the work of schools and districts that collaborated meaningfully with an external organization to further existing goals. […]
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