Identify professional learning features and content most likely to boost student outcomes. Synthesizing results from dozens of experimental studies, we'll first debunk common myths — ideas unsupported by evidence — and then talk about what works.

Explore research on the role of teacher coaching programs as part of a broader school-wide commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth. Use research findings to design teacher coaching programs to be effective, sustainable, and scalable. Leverage coaching as a tool to increase teacher satisfaction, performance, and retention.

Research has illuminated the complex processes involved in learning to read, with important implications for how educators teach and how school systems support them to align their instruction with evidence and best practices. Principals, coaches, teachers, and other educators need to be on the same page about reading instruction, and research provides the foundation for that coherence. This session will zoom in on the research behind a particular challenge for many students, making sense of content-rich text, and on strategies for addressing it.

Principal pipelines are a growing approach to address leadership development and support to ensure all schools have highly effective school leaders, but scalability remains an issue. Building on concepts found in the Implementation for Sustainability Framework, we will address how central office policies and practices support the sustainability of leadership pipelines. The framework builds on decades of prior research and was further developed through findings from the Principal Pipeline Learning Community (PPLC), funded by the Wallace Foundation.