Standards for Professional Learning Week
When: April 22-26, 2024
What: Thousands of educators joined us during Standards for Professional Learning Week to learn how standards advance high-quality professional learning, provide solutions to education's toughest challenges, and change practices to improve results for students.
Daily learning events featured lively discussions about effective, standards-aligned school systems that support educators in addressing student learning needs. We heard from educational leaders who implemented the standards in conjunction with their strategic goals to improve student outcomes. Field practitioners in various roles shared how effective educator professional learning can provide solutions to many of today’s challenges in K-12 education.
Conversations were live-streamed from 3-3:30 p.m. ET, Monday April 22-Thursday April 25. Recordings for all sessions are available below!
Agenda
Each day featured 30-minute conversational webinars.
Monday, April 22
Shifting from hoping for the best to measuring impact through standards-aligned professional learning
Hear how Clayton County Public Schools (GA) started building their Standards-for-Professional-Learning-aligned comprehensive learning system with 10 professional learning academies for any and all adults that lead professional learning in the system, including teachers, principals, and deputy superintendents.
Tuesday, April 23
Shifting from misalignment to rigor with high-quality curriculum and instructional materials
See how a team from Montgomery County use the Standards for Professional Learning as a driver for school and system improvement. These educators, who are also engaged in Learning Forward's Curriculum-Based Professional Learning network, are leading the charge for sustained, job-embedded, curriculum-based professional learning to improve their middle school math outcomes.
Resources shared in the chat:
- "Practical measures tell us if change is making a difference" by Nick Morgan and Michelle Bowman
- Overview of the Curriculum-Based Professional Learning Network
- Principles for the Design of Mathematics Curricula: Promoting Language and Content Development -- Stanford Graduate School of Education
- "How math language routines are included in Illustrative Mathematics" by Kristen Taylor
Wednesday, April 24
Shifting from random acts of PD to a professional learning system
This session features Orange County Public Schools (FL) and how they shifted from random acts of PD to a professional learning system through the lens of the Conditions for Success frame within the Standards for Professional Learning, and its four interrelated standards -- equity foundations, the culture of collaborative inquiry, leadership and resources.
Thursday, April 25
Shifting from searching for support to using evidence-based tools to advance high-quality professional learning
Discover different approaches at various levels to begin thinking about the Standards for Professional Learning. Multiple tools are featured, such as the Advancing Outcomes Tool, with easy entry points to begin introducing the standards to your colleagues, school, and system.
Resources shared in the chat:
- Standards for Professional Learning and associated resources.
- Evidence standard
- Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction standard
- Research about and research that informed the standards
- Interactive version of Advancing Outcomes tool
- PDF version Advancing Outcomes tool
- Role-based action guides
- Learning Forward online courses
- Self-paced online course for Standards for Professional Learning
- Learning Forward Academy
- Learning Forward’s networks
