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Every educator engages in effective professional learning
every day so that every student achieves.
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LFVA Annual Conference

spend the day with:

Jim Knight

Jim Knight

October 17, 2013

Richmond Marriott West

4240 Dominion Boulevard, Glen Allen, VA.

Registration will open June 1

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LF Summer Conference July 21-24, 2013 Minneapolis, Minn.

LF Summer Conference July 21-24, 2013 Minneapolis, Minn.

Come to Minneapolis July 21-24 and learn from the outstanding and innovative work of your peers and the perspectives of national leaders in more than 150 intensive preconference sessions and concurrent sessions. Register by Jan. 31, 2013 and receive $75 off a 3- or 4-day registration. Keynote speakers include Jim Knight, Michelle Shearer, Yvette Jackson, Jaime Casap, and Anthony Muhammad. Download the conference preview and early bird registration form.
STANDARD'S BRIEF

Every educator engages in effective professional learning every day so that every student achieves.

The Standard's Brief is a regular feature of the Learning Forward Virginia website. In each brief, we will describe and provide resources for additional learning on one of the seven Standards for Professional Learning. The first brief will provide an overview of the Standards for Professional Learning.

As we continue our conversation about the New Standards for Professional Learning, let's consider core concepts. Each of our new professional learning standards has four core concepts – educator, effectiveness, results, and all students embedded in the stem, or beginning of each of the standards. For example, more...

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The Latest Tools for Learning Schools is Free For All Readers
The current issue of Tools for Learning Schools, sponsored by MetLife Foundation, looks at how practitioners can use Learning Forward's free workbook, Professional Learning Policy Review: A Workbook for States and Districts, to assess if their policies support the professional learning required for changes such as implementing Common Core State Standards. Learn how to move people through a series of stages to evaluate the policies a system has in place and consider recommendations for changes.

The tool, Current practices in professional learning, uses open-ended questions to gather stakeholders' perspectives and help understand how to strengthen the quality and effects of professional learning. More...

Free Workbook Explores Finding Time for Collaboration
Finding time for job-embedded professional learning is one of the most frequently cited challenges with implementing the Common Core State Standards. With the release of Establishing Time for Professional Learning, districts and schools have a free workbook to guide their work as they develop, assess, and implement recommendations for increasing collaborative learning time for educators.

The workbook is organized into seven steps of a process for studying, designing, and implementing time for educator collaboration. Establishing Time for Professional Learning was created as part of Learning Forward's initiative, Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core, which is supported by Sandler Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and MetLife Foundation.

»  Download this free workbook

LFVA's Latest News
Free webinars: Creating a culture of innovation in our schools
Latest Addition! Paul Ash, co-author of School Systems That Learn, hosted a two-part webinar on exploring how leaders can create cultures of innovation and curiosity in their schools.

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posted on: 5.8.2013
What teachers need and reformers ignore: Time to collaborate
One of the primary things that teachers value but that school reformers have given short shrift is time to collaborate. Here, Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, an expert on teaching and teacher education, writes about why this is so important to the profession. ...more

posted on: 4.16.2013
Principals Talk About What It Takes to Succeed: A Wallace Video Series
The Wallace Foundation identified five key practices of effective principals. We offer a series of short videos that shows how 13 successful principals are using these practices to improve teaching and learning in their schools. Listen and learn as the principals talk about how they carry out these practices with skill and heart. ...more

posted on: 4.17.2013
Learning Forward Announces Release of Establishing Time for Professional Learning
Learning Forward announces the release of Establishing Time for Professional Learning, a workbook designed to guide districts and schools as they develop, assess, and implement recommendations for increasing collaborative learning time for educators. ...more

posted on: 4.11.2013
Learning Forward Announces Release of School-Based Professional Learning Modules
A set of four web-based professional learning units for school and district leaders. ...more
posted on: 3.12.2013
Learning Forward Announces Release of...
Professional Learning Policy Review: A Workbook for States and Districts ...more

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Survey indicates need for high-quality professional learning
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Week Teacher

The recent release of the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Challenges for School Leadership provides valuable information about teacher and principal needs, highlighting the increasing importance of high-quality professional learning. ...more
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