Please provide your input on the draft revised Standards!

Learning Forward is revising the Standards for Professional Learning. The staff team and the Standards Advisory Council seek your comments and reactions on the draft. Your input will be compiled and will inform the next round of revisions. The revised Standards along with a suite of implementation and assessment tools will be released in early 2022. 

Please access the draft at: https://learningforward.org/standards-revision/ 

You may choose to complete the survey alone or as a member of a team.

The deadline for completing this survey is January 15, 2021. Thank you for contributing to the revision process. Your input is critical and much appreciated. 

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* 1. Overall rating for the revision? 

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* 2. Overall, does the Standards revision:

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Address planning and implementation of professional learning
Seem useful in building knowledge about professional learning
Address equity in professional learning
Reflect the systemic nature of professional learning
Incorporate current research
Address curriculum-based professional learning

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* 3. Overall, to what extent does the frame (Conditions for Success/Transformational Processes/Rigorous & Inclusive Content):

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Clarify professional learning system
Assist understanding of how to use revised Standards for Professional Learning
Add value to revised Standards for Professional Learning
Please review each draft revised Standard and provide comments below.

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* 4. Equity Foundations Standard: Educators establish a vision for equitable access to high-quality professional learning, create structures to ensure such access, and sustain a culture that supports the development of all staff members.

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* 5. Culture of Collaborative Inquiry Standard: Educators commit to and drive continuous improvement, engage in collaborative learning, and take shared responsibility for improving learning for all students.

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* 6. Leadership Standard: Educators establish a compelling and inclusive vision for professional learning, ensure a coherent system of supports to build individual and collective capacity, and advocate for professional learning by making both the impact of professional learning and their own learning visible to others.

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* 7. Resources Standard: Educators allocate resources for professional learning, prioritize their use to achieve a vision for equitable outcomes for all students, and monitor the impact of resource investments.

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* 8. Equity Drivers Standard: Educators reflect individually and collectively to identify and address their own biases, support and collaborate with diverse colleagues, and cultivate beliefs, knowledge, and behaviors that accelerate ambitious outcomes for all educators and students.

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* 9. Evidence Standard: Educators use evidence and data from multiple sources to plan and monitor their learning and assess its impact on students.

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* 10. Learning Designs Standard: Educators set relevant and contextualized learning goals and apply the science of learning in order to implement evidence-based learning designs.

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* 11. Implementation Standard: Educators understand and apply research on change management theory, engage in and learn from feedback processes, and implement and sustain professional learning that leads to long-term educator, student, school, and system outcomes.

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* 12. Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction Standard: Educators understand and implement the school or district’s overall curriculum, select and use high-quality instructional materials, and strengthen content expertise for their area of responsibility.

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* 13. Reaching All Students Standard: Educators recognize each student’s particular assets and aspects of identity, understand students' context and conditions, and serve as advocates for and partners with diverse students, families and communities.

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* 14. Regarding the format for each Standard for Professional Learning, please comment:

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The descriptions of the three main concepts for each Standard include an appropriate level of detail.
The Essential Actions support understanding of how to implement each Standard.
The vignettes provide a real-world perspective on applying the Standard.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself: 

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* 15. How familiar are you with the current Standards for Professional Learning?

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* 16. If you are familiar with the existing standards, how have you used them?

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* 17. What is your primary role? 

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* 18. Do you have any other comments on the draft revised Standards for Professional Learning? For instance, is there anything substantive missing that would support understanding or implementation of the Standards? Is there a research study you would recommend be reviewed? Please let us know.

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* 19. If you would like to, please share your name and affiliation with us.

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* 20. Please let us know how you heard about draft revised Standards for Professional Learning and this opportunity to provide feedback.

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