Learning Forward's 5 Core Beliefs

Learning Forward, formally known as National Staff Development Council have the following 5 core beliefs:

1. Effective professional learning is fundamental to student learning.
2. All educators have an obligation to improve their practice.
3. More students achieve when educators assume collective responsibility for student learning.
4. Successful leaders create and sustain a culture of learning.
5. Improving student learning and professional practice requires ongoing systemic and organizational change.

In addition, they have 7 standards for professional development, as follows:

1.      Learning Communities – professional learning that occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment.

2.      Leadership – professional learning that requires skillful leaders who develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for professional learning.

3.      Resources – professional learning that requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning.

4.      Data – professional learning that uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning.

5.      Learning Designs – professional learning that integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes.

6.      Implementation – professional learning that applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long term change.

7.      Outcomes – professional learning that aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.

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