Last July, Learning Forward released the Standards for Professional Learning, and these standards belong to the field, not to any one organization. Representatives from 20 professional associations ...

As my colleague Vivien Stewart previously noted in this blog, cities in Asia Society’s Global Cities Education Network (GCEN) recently convened in Shanghai to share ideas on how urban school districts ...

Administrators can support effective professional learning by trusting teachers and giving them the tools to guide their ...

Shifting from an industrial-age education model to a post-industrial learner-centered model is an essential part of preparing students for college and 21st century careers, and the process works best ...

The best teacher professional development is an empowering experience that equips educators with the skills and insights they need to grow and thrive in their careers. While traditional lecture-based ...

The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. Although most students can learn to read, the ...

Why the largest driver of student achievement is the effectiveness of the teacher and how to best train teachers to improve those levers. If there’s one lesson learned from a year of COVID-forced ...

The success of the largest education reform effort of the last decade — Common Core State Standards — is contingent upon effective teacher professional development, according to a new report issued ...

TeachStrong coalition releases policy proposal recommending that districts and schools design their professional learning systems to better address student and teacher needs and to foster feedback and ...

In a new Oct. 6 report, researchers from Brown’s Annenberg Institute analyzed teacher professional learning practices in Rhode Island and offered a variety of recommendations for improvement.

It’s a tough time to be a teacher. COVID wiped out years of learning for millions of students, with too many also suffering from grief, anxiety, and depression. This means that effective instruction ...