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Connecting First-Quarter Data to the District's Strategic Plan

By October, walkthroughs, coaching logs and PL feedback already show whether the strategic plan is taking hold in classrooms. Here's how to connect that first-quarter data to district goals and turn it into a clear story for principals, cabinet and the board.

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Good PD Deserves Better Data: Five Changes to Your Feedback Form

Most PD feedback forms confirm that sessions went well. Few help you decide what to do next. Five years of data on 700,000+ feedback responses point to five swaps that fix that — without making your form any longer.

Who's actually getting your PD?

Averages make PD look healthier than it is. Inside the same district, some staff get a week of structured learning a year — others get almost none. The question isn't how much PD you're offering. It's who's getting it.

Districts invest twice as much in literacy PD as math PD

Literacy and math show up together in every strategic plan. But when you look at five years of PD data across districts nationwide, do the investments match the rhetoric?

Everyone's talking about AI in schools. It's barely showing up in PD.

Everyone's talking about AI in education, but it's showing up in just 1% of district PD sessions. We tracked 290,000 professional learning sessions across five years to find out what's actually making it into educators' training—and what isn't.