Improving professional practice, impacting student achievement
Learning School Alliance
We established the Learning School Alliance (LSA) to promote educator and student learning, and to showcase exemplars of professional learning communities that advance educator and student performance.
See the full list of schools that participate in the first cohort of LSA or view school profiles.
Learning School Alliance members work through live and virtual communities to:
- Strengthen school and district culture to focus on educator and student learning;
- Initiate, refine, or expand the use of collaborative professional learning within their schools;
- Explore ways to evaluate the effectiveness of collaboration within their schools; and
- Develop leaders within their schools to facilitate the transition to a learning school.
Featured LSA school profile
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School District: Greater Essex County District School Board
Total Student Enrollment: 952
Principal: Norm Ross
E-mail: norm_ross@gecdsb.on.ca |
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Teachers and principals receive training, coaching, and facilitation to advance their skills in applying Learning Forward's learning school principles and practices. LSA members learn together in their own schools, with other schools through webinars and facilitated conversations, and at meetings held at our conferences. They openly share their goals, their progress, and—over time—their results.
We appreciate the ongoing support of the MetLife Foundation that currently funds 45 schools in four LSA communities established in 2009. Funding from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations is an acknowledgement of the success of this original work and an endorsement of its effectiveness. Its funding is being used to underwrite an additional ten LSA secondary schools.
Questions? Contact Margaret Fair at
lsa@learningforward.org
