Learning Forward blog
- Designed for impact: Four strategies for customizing professional learning
Fostering school improvement through high-quality professional learning is always challenging for education leaders, but recently, they have been called on to address their numerous improvement challenges while funding is even
- Moving from fragmentation to cohesive learning
For many years, our Monday afternoon professional learning time, referred to as Continuous Instructional Improvement (CII), was well-intentioned but fragmented. Sessions varied by teams and topics, initiatives competed for attention,
- Final FY26 Appropriations Preserves Title II-A and Title IV-A
Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, on a vote of 217 to 214, a five bill FY 2026 Appropriations minibus that contains final FY26 funding for the Departments
- New Officers and Board Members at Learning Forward
DALLAS—Denise Swee’alt Augustine, retired former superintendent of Indigenous Education for the Ministry of Education in British Columbia, began her term as board chair of the Learning Forward Board of Trustees
- Learning Forward’s AI Leadership Poll
During the 2025 Learning Forward Annual Conference, President and CEO Frederick Brown reported the results of the organization’s informal poll about AI in professional learning. Results show that most of
- How to make new teacher mentoring lead to sustainable improvement
In most schools, a new teacher assumes essentially the same responsibilities as an experienced one, often to the detriment of both the novice teacher and her students. Nationally representative data
- Take coaching conversations deeper this year
As a certified professional coach who works with educators at all levels, I appreciated a recent blog published in Postive.News about the benefits of getting beyond surface-level conversations with others
- How generative AI can empower teachers and personalize learning experiences
AI-driven technology is equipping teachers and leaders with learning design tools they can use to build experiences uniquely suited to every student’s wonder, curiosity, and learning needs. This shift is
- The Learning Forward Annual Conference illustrates the critical impact of professional learning on exemplary teaching and learning
Boston, MA –The Learning Forward 2025 Annual Conference is under way in Boston. With the organization’s latest annual international learning event for K-12 educators, Learning Forward celebrates 56 years of
- U.S. Department of Education finalizes interagency agreements
On Nov. 18, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it had finalized six interagency agreements with four other federal agencies that will transfer some but not all responsibility for
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