The Center for Learning in Practice

We serve learning providers across disciplines and contexts.

Whether you are a teacher, farmer, healthcare worker, journalist, or any other kind of professional, many types of knowledge are necessary for you to be successful in meeting the needs of your community and achieving your goals. Success requires the ability to effectively use the tools of your trade or create new ones as the need arises — this is what we call practice mastery.

Practice mastery results from knowledge and skills that enable you to adapt your practice to highly specific contextual factors; navigate institutional, local, state, national and international policy; master codified technical knowledge; create effective program design and generate and analyze data.

VISION

Every organization and every individual who works for global good will have access to high-value, high-impact, sustainably designed learning.

MISSION

To improve professional learning and knowledge sharing in and across civil society organizations through Sustainable Learning programming, research, and services.

STRATEGY

Provide Sustainable Learning Opportunities

Sustainable learning enables practitioners to develop effective practice through collaborative reflection on experience and on actionable data to meet immediate objectives that have long-term impact on organization effectiveness. 

GOALS

• To be a leader in the design of professional learning practice and policy, that measurably improves performance, outcomes, and impact
• To establish a system of programming and certification for individual and organizational Sustainable Learning — knowledge, skills, and application
• To facilitate productive relationships between practice and policy actors that result in sustainable environments for learning and knowledge sharing

OBJECTIVES

• We will support professional learning and knowledge exchange design, implementation, and assessment that improves performance, outcomes, and impact
• We will share and generate evidence-based knowledge about effective sustainable learning practice and policy
• We will build productive relationships between practice and policy actors that result in sustainable environments for learning and knowledge sharing

APPROACH

We facilitate learning that assures a continuous feedback loop between knowledge, learning, and practice.