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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.

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.

The latest paper from the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, written by 10 professional learning organizations, identifies opportunities for innovation in measurement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

RPPL’s Advisory Board has named Dr. Stacey Alicea, a practitioner-researcher with experience in learning strategy, professional development, and capacity building, as the organization’s first executive director.

RPPL’s brief on common myths surrounding professional learning outlines how these beliefs often perpetuate the idea that professional development is a problem that needs fixing instead of the solution to education challenges that it could be. The piece, from RPPL Senior Researchers Heather Hill, John Papay, and Nate Schwartz, was published on Rick Hess' blog, Straight Up.

The four-year grant will be used to conduct research that identifies the features of teacher professional learning experiences that lead to better mathematics outcomes for both teachers and students. RPPL Senior Researchers John Papay and Heather Hill will lead the work.

The Hechinger Report’s “Proof Points” column takes a deep dive into the myth that veteran teachers don’t benefit from professional learning. RPPL Senior Researcher John Papay of the Annenberg Institute lays out the research.