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- Coaches can go deeper to support hesitant teachers
Effective coaching requires a true partnership. Some teachers are slow to warm up to coaching and others offer reasons why they do not wish to engage. To reach all teachers,
- Professional learning powers principal impact
Research has long shown that principals can have a major impact on teaching and student learning, but The Principal Effect, a new report commissioned by The Wallace Foundation dives into
- Six strategies for sustainable professional learning
Sustainability is an important but often elusive goal in educational improvement. Too often, even successful initiatives follow a predictable pattern: They begin with great promise and enthusiasm only to fade
- Leadership teams celebrate wins, plan for sustainable change
Over the past year, the Leadership Team Institute 2025-26 brought together over 30 leaders from seven teams from state and regional organizations and districts in Maryland, New York, and Delaware
- Support principals and teachers by standing up for Title II-A
As the flowers bloom in Washington, D.C. and the temperatures climb, Congress once more turns its attention to education funding. Like each year in recent memory, education advocates must again
- One chapter at a time: Data stories for shared improvement
Springtime signals all types of transformation. Mother Nature shifts from browns to greens, communities emerge from winter routines, and in schools, educator turnover triggers a domino effect. One predictable byproduct
- The Learning Professional’s new issue is a featured thought leadership resource at researchED NYC this weekend
Media contact: Gail Paul, gail.paul@lf.wphlab.com NEW YORK CITY– Education publisher and professional learning organization Learning Forward announced its newest issue of The Learning Professional magazine is a recommended resource for
- The coaching continuum: Providing the right support when it matters
Coaching is most effective when it builds problem-solving skills and self-efficacy in coachees. To achieve this, effective coaches structure their coaching conversations in intentional ways to promote and support a
- Supercharging your adult learning: It’s better together!
For those of us who can think way back and recall the Maytag repairman commercials, we may remember chuckling about the guy’s predicament of coming into work each day and
- New Action Guide for the Ohio Standards for Professional Learning
Media contact: Gail Paul, gail.paul@lf.wphlab.com The Action Guide – Ohio Standards for Professional Learning is a new resource now available on the Ohio Standards for Professional Learning webpage. In a
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