Program Highlights Archives – Lead by Learning

Empowering Educators: Building Efficacy Through Learning Conversations and Supportive Challenge – A Collaborative Research Project Between Lead by Learning, Mills College at Northeastern University, and OUSD ELLMA

April 15, 2025 | Charley Brooks and Jaci Urbani

If you have worked with Lead by Learning before, you’ll be familiar with the particular flow of our sessions. We provide participants opportunities to think alone and together about a problem of practice connected to their...

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Co-Learning with Students to Improve Instructional Practice

October 4, 2024 | Nhi Truong

“The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.” ―...

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The Power of a Mid-Year Collective Pause

September 10, 2024 | Nina Portugal

At a recent Lead by Learning session, facilitators created space for a collective pause. 23 elementary school teachers began to take out their notes and student data from the first half of the school year all connected to...

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Design Teams: A Strategy for Developing Distributive Leadership Through Adult Learning Design

August 28, 2024 | Brooklyn Joseph

More often than not, adult learning is planned in isolation by a single leader who is left to assume what the adults in their system need to improve. In taking this approach, an opportunity to develop...

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A Center of Mills College at Northeastern University

August 8, 2024

The start of the 2024-25 school year is particularly energizing for Lead by Learning because we are now a Center of Mills College at Northeastern University! Twenty-five years ago, Lead by Learning began...

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Systems Change Requires Courageous Patience

August 1, 2024 | Sarah Sugarman

Culture change is slow. At the same time, as inequitable student outcomes persist year after year, the need for change is urgent. Leaders who seek systemwide transformation are often caught between their sense of urgency and the pace...

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Disrupting Inequity, Creating Coherence: A Look Inside a System-Wide Partnership with Tamalpais Union High School District

July 5, 2024 | Mahru Elahi

When a district sees awesome academic results for its white students and abysmal results for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) students, there is a need for coherent, system-wide change. Tamalpais Union High School District (TUHSD) in Northern...

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Supportive Challenge

July 5, 2024 | Charley Brooks

Everyone listened intently as a focal student shared his sadness of having no friends on his teacher’s audio-recorded data. “No one likes me,” he complained. The room paused as educators took notes to support their colleague, the Public...

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Collaboration Brings Authentic Learning to Quality Program Improvement

January 30, 2024 | Nina Portugal

As Vallejo City Unified School District Site Coordinators entered their monthly professional development with Lead by Learning the room was immediately abuzz with conversations about their sites. Since 2021, Lead by Learning has been a partner...

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Four teacher scholars look at video data of student learning

Lead by Learning Alumni Network

December 5, 2023 | Charley Brooks

Last month, Lead by Learning hosted our second Alumni Connect meet-up event and reconnected past Lead by Learning participants with their roots in inquiry! Designed to be 1-hour professional learning experiences, alums have an opportunity to...

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