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Standards for Professional Learning

Standards for Professional Learning offer educators the latest knowledge and insights to design, implement, and sustain high-quality professional learning.

Standards lead to environments in which all educators and students have access to powerful learning.

Hover over and click the graphic to explore the standards in more detail and navigate through the site.

Conditions for Success

Standards within the Conditions for Success frame describe aspects of the professional learning context, structures, and cultures that undergird high-quality professional learning.

Learning Foundations >

Culture of Collaborative Inquiry >

Leadership >

Resources >

Rigorous Content for Each Learner

Standards within the Rigorous Content for Each Learner frame describe the essential content of adult learning that leads to improved student outcomes.

Learning Practices >

Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction >

Professional Expertise >

Transformational Processes

Standards within the Transformational Processes frame describe process elements of professional learning, explaining how educators learn in ways that sustain significant changes in their knowledge, skills, practices, and mindsets.

Learning Drivers >

Evidence >

Learning Designs >

Implementation >

Suggested first steps

This website is loaded with information and tools to power your work to establish, refine, and evaluate professional learning. Follow the steps below or customize your own learning journey.

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Explore all 11 Standards for Professional Learning to build awareness.

Read the Essential Reading section to understand how standards shift results.

Consider how the standards apply to your role.

Meet with colleagues to determine your next steps.

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