Understanding Evidence
In the Learning Professional, Rebecca Taylor-Perryman and Ariana Audisio write, "In the face of disappointing national achievement trends, we must identify how to spread the bright spots where research-based professional learning is working and do so in context-appropriate ways so that all educators and students can benefit."
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Discovering recipes for professional learning success
June 2025 | The Learning Professional
Scaling up successful professional learning efforts can help ensure that all students experience the benefits of strong instruction. Unfortunately, initiatives with positive results in one setting can fall short in new contexts with different conditions.”
In a new piece for The Learning Professional, Rebecca Taylor-Perryman and Ariana Audisio explore new ways the K-12 education sector can work to identify bright spots and make them spread.
Building optimal conditions for professional learning that aligns with Learning Forward’s (2022) Standards for Professional Learning is complex, ever-evolving work. Meeting the standards requires leaders to make a series of choices involving time and resources. That’s why they are pioneering new research methods known as qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to shed light on how critical factors affect interventions so that leaders can make choices about how to contextualize those interventions.
They describe the benefits of this approach and share examples. Ultimately, Taylor-Perryman and Audisio hope this will inspire others to apply the method to educator professional learning and accelerate learning across the sector.
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You face pressure to accelerate learning. We want to build an education system that serves everyone. That’s why we ensure partners have reliable and practical evidence of what is changing, and we share our research with the field.
