Yesterday I had an opportunity to appear on Blog Talk Radio to discuss Learning Forward’s newly revised Standards for Professional Learning, which we released at our summer conference last month.

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 ...

For nearly a decade, efforts to raise student-achievement levels have been mostly about driving standards through the schoolhouse door. Accountability has meant putting pressure on educators to raise ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Scroll through Netflix’s library of films or Amazon Video’s exhaustive trove of movies and you would be hard-pressed not to find one that features an uplifting film about a teacher inspiring a student ...

Supported by the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Track 3; Award #2345094), Michigan Technological University and Northern Michigan University are collaborating to expand the Michigan ...

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 ...