Put the Partner in ‘Partnership’ Third-party providers help school systems meet their goals of providing high-quality education to every student. As external providers, they offer the services, products, and goods that systems are unable to provide, or that they need to function. Meet the Promise of Content Standards: The Role of Third-Party Providers (Killion, 2013) explores how district and state leaders can engage with third-party providers as partners. In particular, the brief describes how educators and developers can work together to find or create resources aimed at educating every student to meet rigorous content standards and supporting every educator to achieve high performance through continuous professional learning. Potential partners should carefully consider the questions in the table at right to guide themselves in developing a