NSDC_Standards

=National Staff Development Council = =Standards for Professional Learning =

**[|Learning Communities:]** Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment.

**[|Leadership:]** Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires skillful leaders who develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for professional learning.

**[|Resources:]** Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning.

**[|Data:]** Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning.

**[|Learning Designs:]** Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes.

**[|Implementation:]** Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long term change.

**[|Outcomes:]** Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.

from @http://www.learningforward.org/standards/standards.cfm