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