Learning Forward blog
- District leader Denise Stevens joins education panel celebrating excellence in teaching and learning
When education leader Denise Stevens joined a Learning Forward forum recently to talk about the impact high-quality professional learning is making in her district, she didn’t rein in her effusive
- Standards for Professional Learning Week: Celebrating proven approaches to equipping educators with knowledge, skills, and mindsets essential to advancing student achievement
Learning Forward revised Standards for Professional Learning and launched them globally in 2022 to ensure educators have the latest evidence-backed information on what’s needed to build effective professional learning systems
- Federal Title II-A education spending works
Webinar provides ground-level perspectives of investments & outcomes April 11, 2024; 3-4pm ET Register Federal Title II-A funding, the catalyst for educator recruitment, retention, and ongoing professional learning —all key
- Practical ways educators say they are using AI in professional learning
In preparation of the release of the April issue of The Learning Professional on technology and the future of learning, we asked educators on LinkedIn how they are leveraging AI
- Newsmakers: They have supported educator learning for decades, now two flagship programs are building on collective momentum
Dallas, Texas – March 28, 2024 – Learning Forward is pleased to announce that two programs with rich histories of advancing knowledge and practice of effective educator professional learning expanded
- U.S. Congress maintains level funding for Title II-A in FY24
Learning Forward is very pleased that the U.S. Congress, in recognition of the value of professional learning to student learning and educator retention, has agreed to maintain level funding for
- Congress releases final FY24 funding agreement; Title II-A spared the budget axe
Late last night, the Congressional Appropriations Committees unveiled their final agreement on fiscal year 2024 funding levels for the six appropriations bills that have not yet passed, including the Labor
- Educators react to Thomas Guskey’s framework for professional learning evaluation
Thomas Guskey’s five level framework for professional learning evaluation has our online community buzzing with appreciation and curiosity. Guskey’s evaluation framework is an adapted version of Kirkpatrick’s well-known four-level model
- Putting students first as Covid relief funds wind down
Students across the U.S. continue to need help catching up on unfinished learning, even as the final round of federal pandemic aid money for schools sunsets this year. The funding
- Title II-A flat-funded in President’s FY25 budget
On Monday, President Biden released his fiscal year 2025 budget proposal. Constrained by a spending agreement that allows only a 1% overall increase in spending for fiscal year 2025, this
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