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The Learning School Alliance helps create environments where professional learning is embedded in the job, and both teachers and school leaders hold collective responsibility for student success. The LSA brings together campus-based leadership teams from across North America that are committed to strengthening their professional practice through collaborative professional learning. Participating teams experience the combination of tools and materials, coaching and facilitation, a dedicated website and learning platform, and face-to-face learning sessions at national conferences to create and/or sustain professional learning communities at their campuses.

View the school profiles of schools that participate in LSA.

Watch this video:

Since this video was made, the Learning School Alliance has been revised and is now a one-year program.

Bring your entire campus leadership team to:

• Strengthen school and district culture to focus on educator and student learning;
• Initiate, refine, or expand the use of collaborative professional learning within your school;
• Explore ways to evaluate the effectiveness of collaboration within your school; and
• Develop leaders within your schools to facilitate the transition to a learning school.

Teachers and principals will receive training, coaching, and facilitation to advance their skills in applying the Learning Forward Learning School principles and practices. LSA members will learn together in their own schools, with other schools through webinars and facilitated conversations, and at meetings held at Learning Forward conferences. They will openly share their goals, their progress, and -- over time -- their results.

Just a reminder:

• You can use your Title I dollars and other federal sources for the program fee.

For more information about Learning School Alliance or if you have a question about how to register, contact Celeste Casey at 972-421-0891.

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.

Atherton Elementary LSA banner hanging ceremony From left to right: Learning Forward Director of Learning Carol François, Metlife's Ernest L. Foster, Atherton Elementary School Principal A. Clifton Myles, and Interim Deputy Superintendent Morcease J. Beasley