Rigorous content and conditions for success are necessary for the transformational process.

Benchmark and Standards

Assessing Professional Learning

Participation

When Educators sign up for the first Program, they are eligible for the Brewing Knowledge badge.
Certificates of Recognition are given after every Program to attain professional competence.
After completion of three Programs, the Learning Forward Gold Badge is awarded.

Your Career Path to a School Coach

Three years of Professional Learning
Two Years Volunteering with the Academy
Two Years as participation as a Trainer at the Academy

You move up to a School Coach!

Learning Forward

Learning Forward updates Standards for Professional Learning to reflect the latest research and evidence from practice to support educators effectively.

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Standards of professional learning

Learning Communities

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment.

Learning Designs

Learning Communities

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes.

Resources

Learning Communities

Resources

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning.

Outcomes

Leadership

Resources

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.

Leadership

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires skillful leaders who develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for professional learning.

Data

Leadership

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning.

Implementation

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long-term change.