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What is my role in great professional learning?

By Learning Forward
Categories: Career pathways
August 2016
As more educators and policymakers embrace Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning (Learning Forward, 2011) for planning, implementing, and evaluating professional learning, they may be ready to ask: Now what do we do? Learning Forward has created Innovation Configuration (IC) maps for educators in 12 roles, from teacher leaders and school leaders to superintendents and school board members. IC maps are useful tools for getting a specific picture of what changes or innovations, such as the standards, look like in practice. “An IC map is a way to precisely define quality and measure fidelity” of implementation (Learning Forward, 2013, p. 7). The maps detail a spectrum of variations of implementation, with the ideal on the left side of the map, decreasing incrementally along the continuum

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Learning Forward. (2013). Standards into practice: School system roles. Innovation Configuration maps for Standards for Professional Learning. Oxford, OH: Author.

Learning Forward. (2011). Standards for Professional Learning. Oxford, OH: Author.


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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