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- Educators react to Thomas Guskey’s framework for professional learning evaluation
Thomas Guskey’s five level framework for professional learning evaluation has our online community buzzing with appreciation and curiosity. Guskey’s evaluation framework is an adapted version of Kirkpatrick’s well-known four-level model
- Putting students first as Covid relief funds wind down
Students across the U.S. continue to need help catching up on unfinished learning, even as the final round of federal pandemic aid money for schools sunsets this year. The funding
- Title II-A flat-funded in President’s FY25 budget
On Monday, President Biden released his fiscal year 2025 budget proposal. Constrained by a spending agreement that allows only a 1% overall increase in spending for fiscal year 2025, this
- The Learning Professional’s new issue points educators to promising research findings and offers advice for the best possible evaluation approaches
Dallas, Texas – What works in K-12 educator professional learning is top of mind for state, district, and school leaders, especially now, as educators make critical spending decisions to boost
- How to translate Standards for Professional Learning into practice
One of the best ways to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it in multiple ways – listen, observe, study, practice. That approach to learning a new language
- Newsmakers: Learning Forward leaders shaping critical issues in K-12 education
Dallas, Texas – January 31, 2024 – Learning Forward is pleased to announce two of its leaders are making news through their participation in highly visible national events that demonstrate
- At the outset of network and improvement design, consider who it is truly meant to help
Learning Forward’s 2023 Annual Conference highlighted a theme of “Evidence into Action.” Not coincidentally, some of the featured conference speakers and sessions could easily be reframed as the reverse: “Action
- Learning Forward a member of consortium that developed the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan
The U.S. Department of Education’s 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) represents a significant educational policy milestone, setting a vision and plan for K-12 learning enabled by technology, according to
- U.S. Department of Education releases 2024 National Educational Technology Plan
January 22, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today released the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP): A Call to Action for Closing the Digital Access, Design and
- Congress makes progress on FY24 spending but final deal elusive
When Congress returned to work in January, all members knew that fiscal year 2024 funding remained unresolved and that it faced another countdown to the federal government running out of
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