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Learning Forward's
Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI Data)

 

Learning Forward presents Standards for Professional Learning to describe the conditions, content, and processes for professional learning that leads to high-quality leading, teaching, and learning for students and educators.

The 11 Standards work within a framework to outline a system for professional learning. To create high-quality professional learning that results in improved educator practices and improved student results, educators apply the 11 standards in concert.

The three categories within the framework follow:

    • Standards within the Transformational Processes frame describe process elements of professional learning, explaining how educators learn in ways that sustain significant changes in their knowledge, skills, practices, and mindsets.
    • Standards within the Conditions for Success frame describe aspects of the professional learning context, structures, and cultures that undergird high-quality professional learning.

    Standards for Professional Learning diagram

Equity Practices
Educators understand their students’ historical, cultural, and societal contexts, embrace student assets through instruction, and foster relationships with students, families, and communities.

Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction
Educators prioritize high-quality curriculum and instructional materials for students, assess student learning, and understand curriculum and implement through instruction.

Professional Expertise
Educators apply standards and research to their work, develop the expertise essential to their roles, and prioritize coherence and alignment in their learning.

Equity Drivers
Educators prioritize equity in professional learning practices, identify and address their own biases and beliefs, and collaborate with diverse colleagues.

Evidence
Educators create expectations and build capacity for use of evidence, leverage evidence, data, and research from multiple sources to plan educator learning, and measure and report the impact of professional learning.

Learning Designs
Educators set relevant and contextualized learning goals, ground their work in research and theories about learning, and implement evidence-based learning designs.

Implementation
Educators understand and apply research on change management, engage in feedback processes, and implement and sustain professional learning.

Equity Foundations
Educators establish expectations for equity, create structures to ensure equitable access to learning, and sustain a culture of support for all staff.

Culture of Collaborative Inquiry
Educators engage in continuous improvement, build collaboration skills and capacity, and share responsibility for improving learning for all students.

Leadership
Educators establish a compelling and inclusive vision for professional learning, sustain coherent support to build educator capacity, and advocate for professional learning by sharing the importance and evidence of impact of professional learning.

Resources
Educators allocate resources for professional learning, prioritize equity in their resource decisions, and
monitor the use and impact of resource investments.

The information listed above is from the Standards section on the Learning Forward website.



The chart below shows the results from the administering of
Learning Forward’s Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI). The survey measures alignment of a school's professional learning practices to the Standards of Professional Learning. The schools and district use the data from the online assessment to improve professional learning. The SAI consists of statements which teachers are asked to rate on a scale of zero to five. This provides information on teachers’ perceptions of professional learning, as well as the degrees of success or challenges as defined by the Standards for Professional Learning. These results help schools and systems focus on the actions that contribute to high-quality professional learning that produces student results. 

 

Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI Data)

Standards

2022-2023

Equity Practices 3.2
Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction 3.6
Professional Expertise 3.5
Equity Drivers 3.0
Evidence 3.4
Learning Designs 3.3
Implementation 3.3
Equity Foundations 3.4
Culture of Collaborative Inquiry 3.6
Leadership 3.6
Resources 3.4

 

 

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