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New Strategic Plan Sets Bold Goals For 2020
After more than 18 months of work, Learning Forward’s board of trustees has adopted a new strategic plan. This plan will guide the strategic work of the board and staff for the next seven years. ..
Belief In The Power Of Relationships Drives One Principal’s Efforts To Build Social Capital
At Learning Forward’s Annual Conference last December, I heard Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan speak about their book, Professional Capital (Teachers College Press, 2012), and the import..
Essentials
Beating the Odds Failure Is Not an Option: How Principals, Teachers, Students and Parents From Oh..
From The Editor
The definition of innovation is quite simple — innovation means “something new.” Educators have been encountering innovations for decades, and we even have a set of tools — Innovation Configur..
Tool
To be effective, technology-enhanced professional learning, just like face-to-face professional learning, meets the Standards for Professional Learning. The standards synthesize nearly three decades o..
Virtual Reality Check
There isn’t just one way to give feedback, nor is there just one kind of feedback. Bug-in-ear technology, which allows coaches to give teachers in the classroom immediate feedback, has been used suc..
Teachers Without Borders
How can schools and districts leverage technology to create effective professional learning? At Learning Forward’s 2012 Annual Conference, several sessions on innovative professional development, ca..
Building Better Lessons
Julie McGough, a 5th-grade teacher at Victor Hodge Elementary School in Azusa, Calif., calls herself as a “pretty good teacher,” while at the same time admitting that when she changed from grades ..
The Digital Toolbox
The growing acceptance of collaboration as a necessity in high-quality learning has fueled the rapid growth of online tools to better support educators. In Meet the Promise of Content Standards: T..
Creative Sparks
Stephanie Hirsh: What is innovative professional development — or iPD — and how does it differ from traditional professional development? Carina Wong:..
