Learning Forward
Equity and excellence in teaching and learning.
How Learning Forward’s new Standards for Professional Learning intersect with Federal education policy
Presenters: Maria Hyler, Paul Katnik, Jessica Kazigian, Nader Twal, Melinda George and Paul Fleming
In celebration of Learning Forward’s April 25th release of its revised Standards for Professional Learning, we are pleased to provide you with this special briefing that will focus on how these standards can and should strengthen federal education policy and investment around professional learning.
You will hear from policymakers, researchers, and practitioners about how the standards deepen critical connections between policy and practice and contribute to systems for professional learning that result in high-quality, ongoing, collaborative, and job-embedded professional learning for teachers and leaders. Our experts will also show how offering evidence-based, community-informed principles, structures, and tools at the system level can make a difference in recruiting and retaining teachers and leaders and increase student achievement.
Presenters
Paul Katnik is the assistant commissioner of the Office of Educator Quality. Katnik has been in education for over three decades working with children of all ages, K-12, as both a teacher and a building principal. He has served at the Missouri Department of Education for over nearly 20 years, and has been instrumental in coordinating the state model Educator Evaluation System, revising teacher and leader preparation programs, developing the state’s Educator Equity Plan, and creating the Missouri Leadership Development System.
Jessica Kazigian is a senior education specialist for the CREC Resource Group, a regional education center in Hartford, CT. As a member of CREC Resource Group, she works in districts across Connecticut providing high-quality professional learning in the areas of literacy, mathematics, and elementary education instructional strategies. She specializes in elementary instructional strategies, PLC implementation and support, curriculum alignment to Common Core state standards, virtual learning, and professional learning for teacher leaders and district coaches.
Nader I. Twal is a program administrator in the Long Beach Unified School District’s Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Development.
Melinda George is Learning Forward’s chief policy officer, serving on the Learning Forward leadership team and overseeing Learning Forward’s policy and advocacy work. Melinda has been integral to developing strategy and facilitating networks as well as leading the Learning Forward fundraising team.
Paul Fleming serves as chief learning officer at Learning Forward. His current areas of focus include leading the effective implementation of the revised Standards for Professional Learning and corresponding tools, the expansion of our professional services and leadership and learning series teams, and multiple consulting projects with states and districts to increase educator and leader effectiveness through equity-focused, high quality professional learning.
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