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Dr. Stephanie Hirsh is the former executive director of Learning Forward, the premier international association focused on educator professional learning.  Today she continues to advocate for and support educator and student learning through consultation, board service, and volunteer work with for non profit organizations, for-profit companies, universities, and foundations. Recent/current clients include Learning Forward, Carnegie Corporation of New York, University of Texas at Austin College of Education, National Center for Teacher Residencies and Chicago Public Schools. She also serves on advisory and director boards for the Center for Policy, Research, and Leadership at Columbia University Law School, edsUP, EdCuration,  Center for Jewish Education at the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, and StartED. She began her career as a secondary teacher and later served as a school district administrator in the Richardson (Texas) Independent School District. She served three terms as a school board trustee in Richardson, Texas. She has written more than a dozen books and 100+ articles, blogs etc. Over the course of her career she has advised policy makers and practitioners at all levels on improving student learning and educator effectiveness through implementation of effective systems of professional learning.