Best Practice Takeaways A recent study highlights a pattern of common professional learning practices across four high-performing education systems. In the Winter 2016 issue of Tools for Learning Schools, Joellen Killion explores those practices and considers related factors that embed learning in schools each day. The accompanying tool can be used with teams of teacher leaders and school and district leadership teams to facilitate conversations about the responsibilities of learning leaders and how such leaders can focus more specifically on professional learning. Also available for download is a facilitator guide with a comprehensive set of tools to unpack and apply findings from the research study explored in this issue of Tools for Learning Schools. The Learning Catalog The 2016 Learning Forward Bookstore catalog is