2025.12 Learning Forward Presentation 

Using Improvement Science to Strengthen Educator Learning

(12/8/2025 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.) Explore a collaboration between a large district and a teachers union that uses improvement science to structure professional learning driven by educator needs. See how this collaboration supports teachers to learn together, and how leaders are building new ways to understand the impact of educator learning on practice and on students.

Participants will:

• Examine the principles of improvement science and how an improvement science approach can be infused in a professional learning system;

• Understand how this model situates educators as active agents of their own learning and practice improvement; and

• Discuss how one district seeks to understand the impact of its professional learning and address imbalance in the system using a theory of improvement and system of measures.

(Learning Forward Annual Conference Session 1233) 

Presenters: 

• Dr. Malcolm Andrews Boston Public Schools Telescope Network

• Catherine Stoddard Boston Public Schools Telescope Network