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Measuring Learning

June 2025

To know if your professional learning is successful, measure educators’ and students’ learning. This issue offers strategies and examples of a wide range of approaches for evaluation and storytelling.

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Three reasons to turn to coaching when things feel most challenging

This month, our Connect newsletter team sat down with Sharron Helmke, an ICF-certified coach and Learning Forward's senior vice president of professional services, to mine her expertise on coaching, specifically how coaching is uniquely valuable during challenging times, helping educators ...

Investing in principals in these areas offers big returns

Leading a school has always been immensely challenging but also critically important. Fortunately, we know definitively that a great principal actually makes learning possible for the students and teachers in the building, according to Paul Fleming, Learning Forward’s Chief Learning ...

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Advocacy updates

FY25 allocation delays announced

Jul 2, 2025

The day before states were supposed to receive the first tranche of their FY25 K-12 education funds, the Department of Education sent letters to states informing them that it was delaying allocations for seven large programs, which collectively total nearly ...

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