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In the News

Recent press releases
Learning Forward featured in other publications
In the News archive

Recent press releases

• 1/23/2012: Learning Forward Receives $1 Million Grant to Develop Professional Learning Tools for Common Core State Standards
  
  
• 12/15/2011: New Officers and Board Members at Learning Forward
  
  
• 12/6/2011: Carl A. Cohn receives Learning Forward's Contribution to the Field Award
  
  
• 12/6/2011: Chad A. Dumas receives Learning Forward's Best Research Award
  
  
• 12/6/2011: Kathy DiRanna receives Learning Forward's Susan Loucks-Horsley Award
  
  
• 12/6/2011: Karen Anderson and Kathy Kee receive Learning Forward's Distinguished Service Award
  
  
• 12/6/2011: Learning Forward Announces 2011 Award Winners
  
  
• 11/15/2011: Explore Standards for Professional Learning through Video
  
  
• 11/2/2011: Learning Forward Selects Kentucky to Develop Professional Development System to Support Teachers Implementing Common Core State Standards
  
  
• 8/23/2011: Sandler Foundation Supports Professional Learning for Higher Levels of Learning for All Students through Implementation of Common Core State Standards and Readiness for New Assessments
  
  
• 7/20/2011: MetLife Foundation Supports Dissemination and Implementation of Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Learning
  
  
• 7/19/2011: Learning Forward Releases New Standards for Professional Learning
  
  
• 7/19/2011: Third-Grade Team at Clinton Elementary Receives Learning Forward's Shirley Hord Learning Team Award
  
  
• 5/31/2011: Learning Forward Affiliates Announce Name Change
  
  
• 5/6/2011: New Teacher Leader Model Standards Released
  
  
• 3/31/2011: Learning Forward to Disseminate Effective Teaching Insights
  
  
• 3/24/2011: MetLife Survey of the American Teacher Explores Needs of Diverse Learners
  
  
• 3/9/2011: MetLife Survey of the American Teacher Examines Views about the Path to College and Careers
  
  
• 3/1/2011: Learning Forward Announces New Associate Director of Special Projects
  
  
• 1/20/2011: Report Identifies Policies that Support Quality Professional Development in Four Professionally Active States
  
  
• 12/8/2010: Learning Forward Announces 2010 Award Winners
  
  
• 12/8/2010: Andy Hargreaves and Douglas Reeves Receive Learning Forward's Contribution to the Field Award
  
  
• 12/8/2010: Bradley A. Ermeling, Ronald Gallimore, Claude N. Goldenberg, and William M. Saunders Receive Learning Forward's Best Research Award
  
  
• 12/8/2010: Peg Smith Receives Learning Forward's Susan Loucks-Horsley Award
  
  
• 12/8/2010: Deborah Childs-Bowen Receives Learning Forward's Distinguished Service Award
  
  
• 12/8/2010: Learning Forward Names Building a Professional Learning Community at Work: A Guide to the First Year Staff Development Book of the Year
  
  
• 12/6/2010: Rocklin Academy Receives Learning Forward's First Shirley Hord Learning Team Award
  
  
• 9/1/2010: NSDC is Learning Forward
  
  
• 8/26/2010: United States Making Mixed Progress in Improving Teacher Learning
  
  
• 8/25/2010: National Education Poll Underscores Need for Better Professional Development
  
  
• 8/9/2010: Education Stakeholders Study State Policy and Collective Bargaining Language
  
  
• 7/14/2010: MetLife Foundation Supports Revision of National Staff Development Council’s Standards for Staff Development
  
  

Learning Forward featured in other publications

Find links to news and journal articles featuring our staff and initiatives.

• 9/9/2011: Learning First Alliance supports President's bold plan to invest in education, Learning First Alliance.
  
  
• 7/29/2011: Learning Forward releases updated professional development standards, NGA Center for Best Practices.
  
  
• 7/19/2011: Tightened professional-development standards released, Teacher Beat (blog from Education Week). Stephen Sawchuk comments on Learning Forward's new Standards for Professional Learning.
  
  
• 7/18/2011: What will you do?, Learning is Growing (blog from Kathy Perret). Blogger Kathy Perret prompts educators to make a commitment to the new Standards for Professional Learning.
  
  
• 12/9/2010: Teacher training key to reform, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Written by J. Alvin Wilbanks and Executive Director Stephanie Hirsh.
  
  
• 11/29/2010: The Science of Teacher Development, Education Week. Learning Forward's report, Professional Development in the United States: Trends and Challenges, is mentioned in this article discussing the effectiveness of professional development.
  
  
• 11/17/2010: MetLife Foundation supports collaborative leadership in education with $3.8 million in grants, press release from the MetLife Foundation.
  
  
• 9/15/2010: The IB learner profile - Finding the time to be knowledgeable, inquirers and thinkers, Tech Transformation (blog from Maggie Hos-McGrane). Blogger and teacher Maggie Hos-McGrane shares her reactions to a chapter in Learning Forward's book Becoming a Learning School. She imagines what it would mean to devote the time recommended for collaborative professional learning
  
  
• 9/14/2010: Advancing high-quality professional learning, Public School Insights (blog from Learning First Alliance).
  
  
• 9/8/2010: School system gets grant for training, Rockdale Citizen. The Impacting the Future Now Foundation awards the Leading for Learning: Sybil Yastrow Superintendent Grant to Rockdale County Public Schools to expand its professional development training.
  
  
• 8/31/2010: National Staff Development Council to change moniker, Teacher Beat (blog from Education Week). Stephen Sawchuk comments on Learning Forward's name change.
  
  
• 8/26/2010: More induction, less-intense P.D. for teachers, report finds, Teacher Beat (blog from Education Week). Education Week’s blog discusses high and lowlights of Learning Forward’s latest study, Professional Development in the United States: Trends and Challenges, including increased new teacher inductions, a decline of professional development hours, and the need to expand the next federal Schools and Staffing Survey to include types and structure of PD.
  
  
• 8/16/2010: Report urges contractual, state policy support for PD, Teacher Beat (blog from Education Week).
  
  
• 8/10/2010: Make professional learning a joyful experience, Education News. Written by Distinguished Senior Fellow Hayes Mizell.
  
  
• 7/18/2010: Teacher development not a smart cutback in tough times, The Seattle Times. Written by Patricia Wasley and Executive Director Stephanie Hirsh.