REDEFINED LEARNING Lifelong Learners: How Redefining Professional Learning Leads to Stronger Teachers and Improved Student Outcomes Educators for High Standards, 2017 In summer 2017, Educators for High Standards partnered with Learning Forward and Teach Plus to highlight and showcase educators leading high-quality, redefined professional learning in their schools or districts. They talked with six educators from five states implementing innovative, redefined professional learning to better understand how they are designing and implementing learning experiences and how it impacts students and educators. What they learned was not only instructive — showing how teachers crave high-quality, collaborative, teacher-led professional learning and are eager to implement new strategies in their classrooms — but also illustrated the importance of strong professional learning in the future of the teaching profession.