WERA will identify and provide professional learning opportunities and forums for discussion for those who engage in educational research, evaluation, assessment, instruction, policy, and related activities in the following ways:

• Provide access to both national and state specific relevant education research and information (WERA Journal, Standard Deviation, Hot Topic webinars, and other virtual learning engagements). 

• Create opportunities to make sense of the relevant education research and information
• Elevate current issues in education research and policy that have contributed to inequities in the field 
• Ensure that relevant education research and information is discussed with a lens toward implementation

• Create opportunities for educational issues and policies to be considered from multiple perspectives (e.g., practitioners, administrators, researchers).

• Invite legislative representatives, systems leaders, practitioners, and community stakeholders to engage in these discussions

• Engage the field in continuous improvement through the use of evidence.

• Understand findings with regard to the demographics: who benefits, from what, under what conditions? 
• Provide opportunities to support data literacy to guide data driven decision making