Episode 2: Leveraging The Elements

Dr. Jim Short

Dr. Stephanie Hirsh

Learning First Alliance Executive Director Richard Long talks with the authors of The Elements Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning.

In this second episode, we continue our conversation and discuss what differentiates the professional learning called for in The Elements  and how leveraging The Elements can help address many of the challenges facing schools, teachers and students during the pandemic.

Our guests:

• Dr. Stephanie Hirsh, managing director of Hirsh Holdings LLC, is the former executive director of Learning Forward, and has also worked as a secondary school teacher, administrator and school board member.

• Dr. Jim Short, program director of Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning, Carnegie Corporation of New York, is a former science teacher and teacher educator.