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.

This post originally appeared in the Winter 2013 issue of The Learning System. A truism in education is that professional learning is a process, not an event. Nevertheless, many educators continue to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like so many things, the needs for workplace learning and development have changed dramatically this year. There has a been a shift from learning and development being seen as a nice-to-have to a must ...

Eileen Belastock, CEO of Belastock Consulting, is an ed tech strategist who understands and promotes the relationship between technology and education. When K–12 leaders implement expanded remote ...

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 ...

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017.

A teacher's capability to improve students' scientific understanding is influenced by the school and district in which they work, the community in which the school is located, and the larger ...

Everyone has different goals, values and priorities. Professional effectiveness is making the best use of your time and resources to achieve those goals. If you want to be successful in your career ...