Across the country, states and districts are thinking about their Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans -- the funding, the requirements, the changes that are in the plan that will need to be ...

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.

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 ...

In today’s fast-changing world, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teachers face mounting pressures – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...