News & Press
The Latest from Our Collective
Catch up on the latest news, blogs, and press about our collective’s efforts.
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NewsEducation Week: Is Spending on Professional Development Keeping Pace?
Arielle Boguslav, RPPL Senior Research Associate, spoke with EdWeek about trends in PL spending over time and across districts, providing an updated national picture.
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Press ReleaseTwo Decades of Data Reveal Steady but Uneven Investment in Teacher Professional Learning
A new report from the Research Partnership for Professional Learning shows that few districts spend enough to offer universal access to PL with strongest evidence base.
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NewsCurriculum HQ: Let’s Speak The Same Language About Quality Professional Learning
RPPL Leaders Stacey Alicea and Camea Davis spoke with Jocelyn Pickford at Waypoint Educators to explore how our recent report Defining CBPL can be used to help teams align their professional learning offerings.
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NewsEducation Week: Can AI Effectively Coach Teachers?
Stacey Alicea, RPPL Executive Director, spoke with EdWeek about helping districts understand the need for clear policies when it comes to the use of AI in coaching and other professional development.
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NewsNo Such Thing Podcast: Setting the Course For Research on AI in Professional Learning
Brendon Krall and Krista Morales from RPPL were interviewed on the No Such Thing podcast to discuss the role of AI in shaping the future of professional learning. They share their perspectives on education research, new developments in professional learning, and efforts to support educators and improve student outcomes.
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Press ReleaseRPPL Awards Nine Research Grants to Advance Equitable Math Instruction
Nine projects are funded to improve high-quality instructional material in math to serve students who are Black, Latine, Indigenous, AAPI, Multilingual Learners, students with disabilities, and students experiencing poverty.
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Press ReleaseNew Report Details Why Measuring Impact of Teacher Professional Learning is Key to Advancing Equitable Student Outcomes
The latest paper from the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, written by 10 professional learning organizations, identifies opportunities for innovation in measurement.
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NewsInstruction Partners: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning: A Q&A with Researchers
Instruction Partners, a RPPL member, interviewed RPPL Senior Researchers, Heather C. Hill and John P. Papay, to discuss emerging evidence on how effective PL features can inform school and system leadership decisions and how identity-affirming classrooms may benefit children.
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NewsPsychology Today: When Teachers Learn Better, Students Do Better
Psychology Today, the largest publishing enterprise exclusively dedicated to human behavior, recently published a blog post on RPPL's work to help advance teacher professional learning and the importance of helping teachers learn better so that students can do better.
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NewsTeachThought: Improving Teacher Learning
TeachThought, a podcast focused on professional learning and teacher training, interviewed RPPL Executive Director Stacey Alicea and Senior Researcher Heather Hill about RPPL's "Building Better PL" brief, the organization's goals, and what lies ahead in 2023.
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NewsLeading Educators: 4 Classroom Challenges That Teacher PL Can Fix in 2023
RPPL's Executive Director Stacey Alicea and the organization's founding members were featured on Leading Educators' blog, with a piece about the issues and challenges facing professional learning in 2023.
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NewsEducation Week: What Works—and What Doesn’t—in Teacher PD
Ed Week's Madeline Will wrote about a new brief by RPPL Senior Researchers Heather Hill and John Papay that examines the strategies and techniques that make PL effective for educators and students. “Building Better PL: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning” is full of insights into “what” is most effective and “how” PL providers can best implement it.