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Navigating New Roles

April 2025

Whether you’re new to your role or supporting others who are new, professional learning is essential for getting up to speed. This issue includes strategies and advice for a wide range of role transitions.

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Blog posts

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Three reasons to turn to coaching when things feel most challenging

This month, our Connect newsletter team sat down with Sharron Helmke, an ICF-certified coach and Learning Forward's senior vice president of professional services, to mine her expertise on coaching, specifically how coaching is uniquely valuable during challenging times, helping educators ...

Investing in principals in these areas offers big returns

Leading a school has always been immensely challenging but also critically important. Fortunately, we know definitively that a great principal actually makes learning possible for the students and teachers in the building, according to Paul Fleming, Learning Forward’s Chief Learning ...

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Advocacy updates

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Trump Administration releases full FY26 budget

May 31, 2025

Late on Friday, May 30th, the White House followed up on its release of the so-called FY26 “skinny budget” with a more fully fleshed-out version. This new document retains the overall goal of slashing the Department of Education’s budget by ...

Upcoming Symposiums

Transforming School Leaders Symposium

Nashville, Tennessee
June 23-24, 2025

This symposium will support principal supervisors, superintendents, and other district leaders by providing strategies for supporting school leaders’ skills, knowledge, growth, and development.

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Professional services

We equip leaders at all levels with the tools to meet educator and student learning needs head-on. Let us work with your schools and systems to provide professional learning support for teachers, coaches, and leaders.

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