Success Stories Highlight How Educators Can Pivot

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Success stories highlight how educators can pivot

By Suzanne Bouffard

Categories: Change management, Data, Instructional materials/curriculum

Whenever I hear the word “pivot,” I think of a move that’s common in many dance forms. You put your foot forward and push off of it to turn your body. A pivot can be a quarter turn or a half turn, but not a full turn. You end up facing a new direction, positioned to move toward a new location. Whether dancers or not, we all make metaphorical pivots from time to time — notable changes in direction that require putting a foot forward and ending up somewhere new. Often, we pivot because new information tells us that what we’re doing isn’t working or that there’s a better way. In education, that information can take the form of student data, new research on instructional

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NAEP. (2022). NAEP reading assessment: Highlights. bit.ly/3zSOrpb

Suzanne Bouffard

Senior Vice President, Communications & Publications | + posts

Suzanne Bouffard is senior vice president of communications and publications at Learning Forward. She is the editor of The Learning Professional, Learning Forward’s flagship publication. She also contributes to the Learning Forward blog and webinars. With a background in child development, she has a passion for making research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, and families. She has written for many national publications including The New York Times and the Atlantic, and previously worked as a writer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Duke University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She loves working with authors to help them develop their ideas and voices for publication.