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Learning Forward Announces Scholarship Awardees
The Learning Forward Foundation scholarship contest encourages educators to put the Learning Forward vision and ideas into action and apply their research and creativity to impact education's most pro..
The Promise of Micro-credentials
Micro-credentials are an emerging learning design that shows promise for offering educators an on-ramp for identifying and meeting classroom-specific professional learning needs. Four key features ..
Let’s Really Talk About Data
While designs of professional learning have expanded exponentially beyond the required-attendance inservice day workshop model, infusing meaningful data into daily decisions and conversations has not ..
The Solution Is In The Room
Professional learning can encompass a wide range of formal or informal activities and interactions: seminars, informal hallway discussions, university courses, workshops, local and national conference..
6 skills every observer needs – and how to build them
Classroom observation has changed dramatically in recent years. Trivial checklists have given way to research-based rubrics that describe important aspects of teaching and, for each aspect, explain th..
Supervisors Need Support, Too
In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on professional learning structures for teaching and finding ways to embed this learning into the daily work of teachers. This is premised on the un..
Hillsborough’s Principal Pipeline
The path to principalship in Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida is not one taken lightly. After receiving the Wallace Foundation Principal Pipeline Initiative grant, Hillsborough was one of..
What A Question Can Accomplish
It was the third day of the LEAD Connecticut Summer Institute for Turnaround Principals, a two-week workshop for new principals of low-achieving schools. One of the participants, Kenneasha Sloley, cam..
Learning Leaders for Learning Schools
The field of leadership learning has evolved a great deal since the early 2000s, when The Wallace Foundation began its focus on education leadership. We now know that leadership is second only to t..
Inspiring Growth
In her 24 years as an educator, Principal Lori Duckstein has experienced many kinds of professional development aimed at improving leadership and instruction. And, like school leaders and teachers eve..
