Learning Forward Membership
Build capacity for yourself and your teams.
Learning Forward is the only professional association devoted exclusively to supporting those who work in educator professional development. Members stay up to date on the latest knowledge and trends with our cutting edge publications, exclusive learning opportunities and discounts, and expanded learning networks.
Why join?
- Access hundreds of professional learning resources
- Network with prominent professional learning experts
- Receive help with addressing your biggest problems of practice
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Options to join affiliate chapters are available during the check-out process for select regions.
District Membership
Starts at $1,600 per year
- The Learning Professional journal - print copyValue: $89
- The Learning Professional journal - digital copies for all staff membersValue: $79 per staff member
- Connect newsletter for all staff members
- Professional Learning News newsletter for all staff members
- Bookstore 20% discount for all staff membersValue: Unlimited
- Full access to our publication archives for all staff membersValue: Unlimited
- Full access to our webinars for all staff membersValue: Unlimited
- Annual Conference discount for all staff membersValue: $375+ per staff member
- Institutes discount for all staff membersValue: $200+ per staff member
- Online courses 20% discount for all staff membersValue: $19 per staff member
- One online course per school Value: $95 per school
- Two professional development surveys for your entire districtValue: $500 per district + $35 per school
- Consultation with a Learning Forward expert regarding survey resultsValue: $2,000 per district
- One set of 10 key books for your professional learning library *Initial year onlyValue: $500 per districtTotal value for 12 schools and 100 staff members: More than $72,928
Comprehensive Membership
$159 per year (BEST VALUE)
- The Learning Professional journal - print copyValue: $89
- The Learning Professional journal - digital copy
- Connect newsletter
- Professional Learning News newsletter
- Bookstore 20% discountValue: Unlimited
- Full access to our publication archivesValue: Unlimited
- Full access to our webinarsValue: Unlimited
- Annual Conference discountValue: $375+
- Institutes discountValue: $200+
- Online courses 20% discountValue: $19
- Book Club (4 books per year) - IncludedValue: $69
- Career Center badging for Learning Forward members.Value: UnlimitedTotal value: More than $752!
Standard Membership
$99 per year
- The Learning Professional journal - print copyValue: $89
- The Learning Professional journal - digital copy
- Connect newsletter
- Professional Learning News newsletter
- Bookstore 20% discountValue: Unlimited
- Full access to our publication archivesValue: Unlimited
- Full access to our webinarsValue: Unlimited
- Annual Conference discountValue: $375+
- Institutes discountValue: $200+
- Online courses 20% discountValue: $19
- Career Center badging for Learning Forward members.Value: UnlimitedTotal value: More than $683!
Digital Membership
$69 per year
- The Learning Professional journal - digital copyValue: $69
- Connect newsletter
- Professional Learning News newsletter
- Bookstore 20% discountValue: Unlimited
- Full access to our publication archivesValue: Unlimited
- Full access to our webinarsValue: Unlimited
- Annual Conference discountValue: $375+
- Institutes discountValue: $200+
- Online courses 20% discountValue: $19
- Career Center badging for Learning Forward members.Value: UnlimitedTotal value: More than $663!
Refer your colleagues to become a member today!
Earn a $35 gift card in our bookstore
As a Learning Forward member, you understand the impact professional learning has on educator effectiveness and student achievement. Now you have a chance to share the valuable tools and resources you receive as a member of the Learning Forward community by referring a friend or colleague to become a member. As a token of our appreciation, we will give you a gift card when your colleagues join. All they need to do is provide your name within the "Referred By" section during the membership sign-up process.
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What members are saying
Your organization has given me the tools and opportunities to grow as a professional and impact the work I do in my district and with other organizations! Thank you!
Learning Forward member
Having multiple teams of educators join Learning Forward stimulated excitement and allowed us to work more cohesively as learning teams. It provided us a platform to norm practices and create common language around professional learning. The membership gave us access to powerful tools and resources that guided our thinking around transforming professional learning, increasing educator capacity and […]
Sharonda Eley
Learning Forward provides outstanding resources to support teacher and principal professional learning. The consistent use of Learning Forward resources in our school district has resulted in a unified direction of our professional learning that has led to positive changes in teacher practice and improvements in student performance.
Steven Ebell
The value of having multiple staff as members of Learning Forward is the opportunity to develop common language and expectations about what valuable professional development is and means in our district. The resources, publications and learning opportunities that Learning Forward provides also supports our goals for developing our district culture of growth for all, including […]
Melissa Heller
Having multiple staff members at all levels across the district be active members of Learning Forward has helped us set a vision and foundation for high-quality, evidence-based, job-embedded and on-going professional learning that is built upon the Standards for Professional Learning. From the Board level to administration and faculty, all operate, understand and embrace the […]
