For school leaders faced with higher expectations for student success, time constraints, and diminishing resources, effective professional learning is critical. We need to identify what we need to know and learn it effectively for our students to be successful. This is not new — we have known it for a long time. So what’s the issue? For me, the issue is all the issues, the barrage of which sounds like rain on a tin roof. Like so many others, I wish someone would give me a checklist, a silver bullet for building an effective learning community. Impossible, you say. No, it isn’t. Let me share my checklist for creating an effective model of learning. These actions can change your school or district culture into a