Secure the resources needed to support educator professional growth!

Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning. 

In this volume, you will learn creative strategies for prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating the resources required for educator learning and student success. This book includes: 

• An original essay by Karen Hawley Miles and Anna Sommers on how school systems can reconfigure people, time, technology, and money to improve and sustain educator growth
• Implementation strategies, practical tools, and specific examples for maximizing resources—especially time—for teacher learning
• A case study of how Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan, shifted existing resources to drive professional learning despite tough economic times

Learn how wise management of professional learning resources can help achieve stronger outcomes for your educators and students!

"This well crafted, highly informative, and easy-to-read book is a must for teachers who are trying to find constructive and nonthreatening ways to engage with ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity. The author's approach to the topic is encouraging and enlightening."
—Geneva Gay, Professor of Education
University of Washington

"Gallavan effectively guides teachers through learning each child's story, providing meaningful connections, and collectively sharing the responsibility for all students' learning."
—Linda D. Jungwirth, President, Convening Conversations, Inc.
Pepperdine University, CA

Chart your course with the Gallavan cultural competence compass

All children have one important thing in common—the need to be treated with dignity, respect, and care. Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades 6–12 shows teachers and administrators how to ensure that the cultures of all peoples are considered and valued. The author provides an eight-point cultural compass to guide you in crafting a respectful and inclusive curriculum. Each chapter includes frequently asked questions, specific strategies, and activities that help you:

• Broaden your knowledge about cultural diversity
• Become comfortable discussing culture
• Increase confidence in your teaching
• Create a welcoming school environment

It is vital for you to infuse cultural competence into your instruction, build bridges between students in the classroom, and strive to connect students' home and school lives. This book provides valuable tools for ensuring that all students feel accepted and engaged.

Unlock the language of educational equity to create meaningful change in schools.

As educators, professors, policymakers, and advocates work to dismantle systemic barriers and advance equity in education, they must begin with a common understanding of the words that shape their actions. The Encyclopedia of Educational Equity offers over 650 carefully curated terms, concepts, and strategies essential for productive conversations about equity. This powerful tool will provide readers with a deep understanding of fundamental concepts in equity—like "color blindness," "gender expansive," and "meritocracy"—enabling them to identify challenges and craft solutions to improve educational outcomes for all. 

Key features include: 

• Micro-Checks to reflect and interrogate personal beliefs
• Equity timeline notes embedded throughout, which provide essential historical context for many terms
• Supplemental resources including tips for bias-free language, a list of frequently misused terms, critical thinking prompts for professional learning communities (PLCs), and a guide to further reading 
• Evidence-based strategies and best practices for achieving equity in education, interwoven throughout the text 

Whether you are a novice or a veteran, this encyclopedia is user-friendly and accessible to anyone working toward equity—from educators and students to administrators, researchers, and community advocates.

• An introduction to what crisis and caring school leadership means
•  Helpful lists to guide caring leadership practices
• A review of current crisis management literature
• Questions, reflection, and prompts to engage with story learnings

• Practical strategies for working with parents and communities
• Activities for the whole school
• An implementation framework for elementary, middle, and high school
• Deeper understanding of trauma, ACEs, and mental health concerns
• Support for teachers’ mental health
• What not to do – practices that don’t work, and why
• In-depth case studies and vignettes

Discover how psychological safety, constructive conflict, and actionable learning create a powerful triple helix to transform teams!

In this ground-breaking resource, three experts in the field of education and teamwork each present one of three strands that, when woven together, support teamwork and forge collaborative interactions into a transformative way of working. You’ll learn approaches, processes and tools to overcome common obstacles to team effectiveness such as feelings of futility, anxiety, and poor morale. 

Drawing on research and practical experience the authors identify strategies and tools that show how to:

• Build psychological safety, where teams work towards resilient interpersonal relationships
• Use constructive conflict as a powerful catalyst for team learning and transformation
• Inquire into problems of practice to transform capabilities and produce actionable learning

Acquire ways to develop mindful, thoughtful, and constructive teams where authentic communication drives group awareness and clear processes and goals.