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Joellen Killion on Collaborative Professional Learning

Joellen Killion, a senior advisor of Learning Forward and author of “Elevate School-Based Professional Learning,” highlights the transformative potential of collaborative professional learning for educators. Instead of the traditional, top-down approach, Killion calls for professional development to be a shared responsibility, empowering teachers as active participants in their growth. She believes that when teachers collaborate, they leverage their collective expertise, making learning more relevant and impactful.

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Think Like a Data Scientist: Insights From Dr. Jim Knight

Data isn’t just numbers on a spreadsheet—it’s a tool to help educators ask better questions, spot meaningful patterns, and make smarter decisions. Dr. Jim Knight shares how thinking like a data scientist can empower schools to uncover insights and create lasting change. Here’s how you can apply his advice with three actionable tips.

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New Teacher Induction: Data for supporting early-career teachers

Taking charge of a classroom for the first time is no small task. So how to ensure new teacher induction programs are working across the district? Good data practices that keep administrators informed, coaches aligned, and educators clear on their next steps.

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Evaluating Equity Training: 3 Tips for Optimizing Antiracist Teacher PD

Any work that deals with attitudinal change like unconscious bias must be embedded so it’s front-of-mind and continuously active. This means applying the same best practices found in any other PD intervention. Explore how to evaluate anti-racist teacher PD, and ensure that the training is translating into classroom practice.

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Illuminating the PD process: 3 practical examples of "glass-box" data

Continuous improvement — the art of using data to decide goals, identify the paths to get there, evaluate the resulting change, and make adjustments to the next cycle — is the key to improving instructional practice. But why? And, more importantly, how?

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Actionable data: Evaluating professional learning ROI

Join KickUp as we examine six of the most common roadblocks to thriving data cultures. With practical tips, guiding questions, and real-life examples of districts excelling through data, you can push your professional learning program to new levels of effectiveness.

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Actionable data: Building momentum with consistent data checks

A good foundation is critical to your professional learning plan's success — but all the value alignment, calendar coordination and guiding philosophy in the world won’t guarantee a good outcome. Without clear intention for what the final product will actually do, the people it's serving won’t be able to make sense of the “why do we have this?,” let alone the “how do we use this?” Today: simplifying data presentations for accessibility, understanding and buy-in.

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Actionable data: Helping your team understand and use data

A good foundation is critical to your professional learning plan's success — but all the value alignment, calendar coordination and guiding philosophy in the world won’t guarantee a good outcome. Without clear intention for what the final product will actually do, the people it's serving won’t be able to make sense of the “why do we have this?,” let alone the “how do we use this?” Today: simplifying data presentations for accessibility, understanding and buy-in.

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Actionable data: How to clarify, consolidate, and centralize collection systems

If you're trying to build a habit among a group of people — like consistently and thoroughly responding to feedback surveys, for example — the trick is to simplify and streamline wherever possible, for both the audience and yourself. Today in our Actionable Data series: running large-scale data projects while respecting your teachers' time — and your own.

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Actionable data: Plotting robust but realistic timeframes for PD data collection

Short, intermediate and long-term change can look very different in both pace and types of indicator — not to mention the the complex task of balancing the existing demands of the school year with your program's data needs. Let’s explore how to build robust yet flexible calendars for data accountability:

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Actionable data: Turning subjective goals to concrete outcomes

How do you balance maintaining compliance, hitting district goals, and doing the real work of inspiring your teacher-leaders to achieve? It’s not by defaulting to the safety of easily-measurable but shallow metrics — it’s by sharpening the focus of the qualitative changes.

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Actionable data: Teacher PD, logic models, and connecting activities to outcomes

When we talk about impact in K-12 education, the conversation inevitably turns to outcome data (like student test scores). And it's true that the ultimate accountability is to our students. But what about the work that comes between? What if there were a hundred tiny invisible factors feeding into those outcomes? What if there were a way to identify, measure, and align them from the start?

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Designing Data Structures to Build a Culture of Improvement at Youngstown City Schools

How one Ohio district is closing the achievement gap with a thriving professional learning culture, holistic teacher supports, and a data strategy for real-time intervention.

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Building a data-informed culture that makes teachers feel supported

When Lorenzo Rizzo returned to Belton School District--the school district he’d once attended as a student--to become their new Assistant Superintendent of School Improvement, he wanted to build a culture in which professional learning was explicitly aligned to strategic priorities. To do so, he needed to capture data that would help his team assess progress. The main challenge? Shifting the culture to embrace this data required a thoughtful approach designed to build trust.

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How to include data in your everyday decision-making

While many administrators know they want to promote a data-informed culture, it’s hard to know how to put this into practice beyond scheduled data meetings. That's why we’ve compiled a number of tips and tricks for incorporating professional development data into planning, decision-making, and implementation.

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Assessing the Impact of PD Decisions

How do we know whether professional learning is actually working? Which supports are making an impact on teachers and students, and which might we want to walk away from? In this podcast with Daniel Bauer, KickUp CEO Jeremy Rogoff explores the common challenges that school leaders face while making critical decisions about how to most effectively allocate their professional learning resources.

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Meaningfully Using Data to Ensure High Impact PD

KickUp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Rogoff spent time with Dr. Rod Berger ASCD annual conference, where the two discussed how KickUp helps school districts collect ongoing data from teachers as a way to make informed decisions about professional learning.

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