Learning Forward’s 2024 Annual Conference

We can’t wait to see everyone at this year’s Learning Forward Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, December 8-11, 2024! Learning Forward brings together thought leaders, experts, researchers, and other practitioners to collaboratively share the latest learnings, knowledge, and techniques. This conference models deep learning and best practices so you can take them back to lead learning in your schools, districts, or systems. Details listed below, or click here for more information.

PC22: Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning

Sunday, December 8, 2024, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Preconference Sessions

Session Description: Experience curriculum-based learning and consider how it differs from traditional professional learning. Examine a set of research-based actions, approaches, and enabling conditions that effective schools and systems have put in place to reinforce and amplify the power of high-quality curriculum and skillful teaching. Consider strategies for applying them to your plans for professional learning.

Primary Area of Focus: Curriculum, Assessment, & Instruction

Secondary Area of Focus: Learning Designs

Topics: Change Theory/Management, Curriculum-based professional learning with high-quality instructional materials & student performance standards, Leadership Development / Continued Leadership Development

Presenters: Jim Short (Carnegie Corporation of New York), Jody Bintz (BSCS Science Learning), Michelle Dillard (Jefferson County Public Schools), Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning), Stephanie Hirsh (formerly Learning Forward)

1421: Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning

Monday, December 9, 2024, 12:45-2:45 p.m.

Session Description: Learn from district leaders using BSCS Science Learning’s powerful Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA®) professional learning program to support curriculum implementation over time. Engage in nested analysis of practice using a video clip from the classroom as one teacher implements high-quality instructional materials and a video clip from the professional learning setting as study group members analyze that same classroom video clip. Link the experience to the elements of curriculum-based professional learning.

Primary Area of Focus: Implementation

Secondary Area of Focus: Culture of Collaborative Inquiry

Topic: Science

Presenters: Jody Bintz (BSCS Science Learning), Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning)