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Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning establish the core attributes of effective professional learning. All people and entities with either direct or indirect responsibility for students’ education could benefit from well-designed and effective professional learning, but understanding what the standards look like when they are in operation can be a challenge. Innovation Configuration (IC) maps offer a solution to this problem. IC maps identify and describe the major components of new practice — in this case, the Standards for Professional Learning — in operation. The IC maps show a continuum of specific behaviors that facilitate the achievement of desired outcomes within each standard. The range of behaviors is displayed from left to right, with the most desirable at the left and moving to least desirable

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Standards Into Practice: External Roles

Innovation Configuration Maps for Standards for Professional Learning

Learning Forward, 2014

The third volume of Innovation Configuration (IC) maps highlights the actions of learning leaders in four role groups: education agency, external partner, institution of higher education, and professional association. This book, like the earlier volumes for school-based and school system roles, includes IC maps to make explicit how specific roles contribute to deep standards implementation, as well as introductory material that explains the concept and use of IC maps and their application to professional learning.

The Metlife Foundation

MetLife Foundation supported the revision and publication of Standards for Professional Learning and related resources.


Learning Forward is the only professional association devoted exclusively to those who work in educator professional development. We help our members plan, implement, and measure high-quality professional learning so they can achieve success with their systems, schools, and students.


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