The Learning Principal

This newsletter, which was published between 2005 and 2013, aimed to enhance leadership skills and promote learning for everyone involved in the school community.

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Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) Lunch & Learn

Feb 1, 2025 | learningforward.org | Tom Manning

The Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) is a confidential, web-based survey that schools and districts have used to measure their alignment with the standards, identify strengths and areas of focus in their professional learning, and plan professional learning that gets results for teachers and students. Standards Assessment Inventory results help schools and systems focus on the actions that contribute to higher-quality professional learning.
Inspire And Support Educators To Create Positive School Environments

Jul 3, 2024 | learningforward.org | Jay Schroder

Nominated by Sunshine Damico-Ivy and Maureen LoomisJay Schroder is an implementation coach for the Southern Oregon Regional Educator Network (SOREN). In this role, he supports SOREN’s mission to create affirming school environments where all adults and children feel safe and know they matter and belong.
How Principals Can Ensure That Every Student Succeeds

May 13, 2024 | learningforward.org | Suzanne Bouffard

Ensuring that every student succeeds takes a shared commitment among all adults in a school and the system that houses it. Principals play a key role in leading and modeling that commitment. Through instructional leadership, professional learning, interactions with colleagues and students, and many other responsibilities, principals can prioritize equity and establish expectations and processes for their colleagues to address every student’s needs.
Data Collection Tool Improves Professional Learning

Mar 6, 2024 | learningforward.org | Tom Manning

Collecting evidence of professional learning’s impact starts with assessing the current state of professional learning in any school or system. Measuring whether and how practices are impacting teaching and learning can shape the approaches that systems start, stop, and continue and increases the likelihood that professional learning strategies and programs achieve their intended outcomes.
Looking Back Helps Us Understand The Path Forward

Feb 26, 2024 | learningforward.org | Suzanne Bouffard

Twenty years ago, this journal, which was then called JSD, was my first introduction to the unique considerations involved in evaluating professional learning. I was struck by how field leaders like Hayes Mizell, Joellen Killion, and Thomas Guskey provided guidance so elegant that the complex process of program evaluation seemed straightforward and almost natural. Of course, elegance only looks easy.
Equity-centered Evaluation Brings Up Emotions. That’s OK.

Feb 23, 2024 | learningforward.org | Jennifer Ahn

Strong emotions can surface when we evaluate our work, especially when we are deeply invested in it. Since professional learning is about shifting adult mindsets and behavior, it is work that frequently challenges assumptions, expectations, beliefs, instructional practices, and long-standing habits.
How To Translate Standards For Professional Learning Into Practice

Feb 8, 2024 | learningforward.org | Suzanne Bouffard

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 also happens to be an effective way to learn and become proficient with Standards for Professional Learning. Reading the 11 standards is a great start, and an important touchpoint, but it will get you only so far. So, what do you do next? How do you practice what you know and get more fluent?
A Reading List For Turning Research Into Action

Jan 4, 2024 | learningforward.org | Elizabeth Foster

Senior Vice President, Research | + posts Elizabeth Foster is the senior vice president of research at Learning Forward. She leads the organization’s research efforts for partnerships, programs, and fundraising. Elizabeth co-wrote the Standards for Professional Learning (2022) with Tracy Crow and now facilitates learning sessions about the standards and develops resources that support their use and implementation.
Which Way To The Principal’s Office?

Jan 4, 2024 | learningforward.org | Suzanne Bouffard

Many professions have long runways to leadership, with mentorship and increasing levels of responsibility. Lead prosecutors start as assistant district attorneys, surgeons often complete a fellowship after residency, many business and nonprofit leaders move through the ranks of assistant director or vice president. In contrast, the path to school leadership has historically not been well-defined. But that is changing.
Are You Listening To Midcareer Teachers' Needs?

Jan 4, 2024 | learningforward.org | Jennifer L. Reichel

Midcareer teachers want something new from professional learning. That’s one of the takeaways from dissertation research I conducted on the professional learning needs of experienced educators. Nearly all of the midcareer teachers I interviewed described a need for content that is fresh or invites a meaningful extension of their existing skills and understandings.