I recently met a woman who is leaving a school system after 14 years to work for a technical assistance agency. She had limited professional learning leadership experience beyond the district and wondered what to expect. We talked about how she might prepare herself. A new learning leader’s first priority must be to have a vision for the quality and impact of professional learning. While my colleague had seen Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning (Learning Forward, 2011) listed on posters, she had never thought about what they meant for planning and implementing professional learning in her school system. Now she needed to think about them on a larger scale. As we talked about the importance of professional learning quality, she explained that her interest