Learning Forward
Equity and excellence in teaching and learning.
Research and Reports
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.
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Professional learning plans establish short- and long-term guidance for professional learning and its implementation. This workbook offers information and tools to walk educators through seven planning steps, from data analysis to setting goals to identifying learning designs to monitoring impact. Effective plans help individuals, schools, districts, and states to coordinate learning experiences designed to achieve outcomes for educators and students.
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Introduce stakeholders at any level to the concept of a comprehensive professional learning system with our latest brief, created with the support of the Sandler Foundation in collaboration with the Council of Chief State School Officers. Meet the Promise of Content Standards: Developing a Comprehensive Professional Learning System provides an introduction to an infrastructure for developing individual, school, team, and school system capacities needed to ensure success for all educators and their students. This resource is drawn from the complete workbook Comprehensive Professional Learning System: A Workbook for States and Districts.
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In the interest of starting a national conversation about the type and quality of professional learning teachers experience, Corwin, the National Education Association, and Learning Forward invited teachers nationwide to voice their opinions about their professional learning. More than 6,300 teachers from across the United States responded.
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Co-published by Learning Forward and Digital Promise, this paper seeks to chart a course for leveraging a micro-credentialing system to enable more educators to achieve the potential of professional learning. The paper uses the Standards for Professional Learning as a frame to provide guidance to everyone involved in micro-credentials to ensure that learners experience the research-based elements of professional learning essential to achieving ambitious outcomes for students.
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This executive summary showcases the research questions addressed in the study, summarizes findings and conditions for professional learning in Canada, and concludes with implications for next steps. Examples of professional learning practices from various provinces highlight learning in action across the nation.
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