This issue celebrates the 2022 revision of Standards for Professional Learning. It explains how and why the standards have been updated, provides examples of how educators at all levels are applying them to improve their work, and shares tools for implementing standards in your own context.
Take a peek under the hood of revised Standards for Professional Learning to find out what’s new and why they matter now more than ever.
As the learning landscape shifts, so do Standards for Professional Learning. See how revised standards outline vital content, processes, and conditions.
Changes in the standards reflect emerging research, new knowledge about best practices, and policy shifts.
At the school level, standards play key roles in visualizing, planning, and monitoring professional learning.
At the district level, implementing the standards starts with straightforward steps, as this Arizona district learned.
At the state level, Delaware looks to standards to shift its definition of high-quality professional learning to be content-specific and curriculum-focused.
Educators in two Canadian provinces share a distinctly Canadian lens on the launch of the revised Standards for Professional Learning.
A community of practice examines the three equity standards to understand how they impact professional learning design and facilitation.
The Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction standard reflects growing knowledge about the impact of high-quality instructional materials on student learning.
A crosswalk of standards for leadership and professional learning shows how they complement one another.
A new graphic helps educators think about the connection among standards, professional learning, and outcomes.
Innovation Configuration maps help educators take concrete steps to implement standards.
Revised standards reflect the latest research, thanks to a comprehensive review of recent findings.
A meta-analysis illuminates the positive relationship between standards-aligned professional learning and teacher instruction and student achievement.
Call to action
With educator shortages and turnover on the rise, this issue explores the role of professional learning in boosting retention, satisfaction, and success.
Overcoming barriers to equity takes deep listening, learning about self and others, and the willingness to make change. This issue examines professional learning strategies to start the work and stay […]
Professional learning can help educators navigate the competing priorities, increasing student needs, and intense pressure they are experiencing today. This issue examines how.
New teachers have unique professional learning needs and challenges. When leaders address those needs, they start teachers on a path of ongoing career development. This issue examines how to build […]