Learning Forward Virginia | LFVA – Excellent Teaching and Learning Every Day.

Our Beliefs

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Effective professional learning is fundamental to student learning.

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All educators have an obligation to improve their practice.

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Students achieve when educators assume collective responsibility for student learning.

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Sustainable learning cultures require skillful leadership.

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Improving student learning and professional practice requires ongoing systemic and organizational change.

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Student learning increases when educators reflect on professional practice and student progress.

WHO WE ARE

Learning Forward Virginia is an affiliate of Learning Forward, the largest professional learning membership association worldwide.

About Us

WHY JOIN LFVA?

Membership is open to any person from Virginia who is interested in professional development and the achievement of students.

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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

Learning Forward Virginia offer amazing professional learning opportunities in the area to collaborate with colleagues.

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Project-Based Learning in Virginia!!

Thank you to all participants who attended our second Virginia PBL Institute. The learning was greatly enhanced by your engagement. Thank you to the Buck Institute and their PBL faculty. Their expertise advanced the learning forward. Thank you to the Learning Forward Virginia Board. Their commitment and dedication made this learning opportunity happen.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE SPONSORS OF THIS INSTITUTE
Your support is very much appreciated.

News

Nov

Congratulations to Educators in Office!

Editor’s note: Learning Forward’s blog on the Education Week Teacher site will close at the end of the week. To keep up with weekly content from Learning Forward, please visit https://learningforward.org/publications/blog. By Melinda George Every educator is an advocate, and many are now serving as elected policymakers, with at least one former teacher going to

Oct

A Vision for Equity in Schools Starts at the Top

By Alan Ingram “Hey, that’s not fair!” It’s a credo repeated righteously on play scapes or amongst young siblings regularly. Unfair treatment, even at that early age, stirs a visceral reaction no matter who’s involved. And while the consequences of inequitable treatment may be as benign as an extra turn on the swing or a

Oct

Integrating Social and Emotional Learning Should Be Standard Practice

By Stephanie Hirsh As more practitioners and researchers recognize the importance of addressing students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools, we can’t leave to chance the professional learning needed to make these efforts effective. Far too often, the professional learning linked to essential emerging topics is a distant afterthought in many educators’ contexts. We

Sep

New Report Highlights the Importance of the Role of Principal Supervisors

By Frederick Brown A new report about The Wallace Foundation’s Principal Supervisor Initiative (PSI) offers insight into the types of professional learning that are most effective for helping principal supervisors develop the instructional leadership capacity of principals. Among their findings, researchers noted that principal supervisors in PSI districts were able to reduce the number of