2025’s theme, Bridging Professional Learning and Student Success

This year’s conference theme, Bridging Professional Learning and Student Success, continues a path that started several years ago. The 2023 conference theme, Evidence into Action, spoke to the power of evidence-based practices and how Learning Forward bridges research and implementation to improve results for each student. We examined how we apply what we have learned to best practices in classrooms, teams, buildings, systems, and regions. In 2024, we continued this upward trajectory by taking reimagined possibilities and leveraging them with evidence-based practices to achieve our ultimate goal to Reach New Heights for Students. In 2025, we will again make that explicit connection between educator learning and student success. We know that as educators, we are learners first, and as we continue to grow in our practice, all students will experience great teaching and learning every day.