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The Steps to Selecting a High-Quality Professional Learning Partner Guide helps you prepare and plan for the professional learning partner selection process.

The Professional Learning Partner Interview Guide prepares you to ask key questions during an interview with a potential professional learning partner.

The Guide to Managing Multiple Professional Learning Partners aids you in managing multiple professional learning partners.

Review the criteria that Rivet evaluates professional learning partners against in order to be featured in the guide.

Quick overview of the Professional Learning Partner Guide (PLPG) application process and upcoming review cycle.

Overview of the connection of standards, instructional materials, and professional learning for Wisconsin educators

Study underscoring the need for providing all students with grade-level work every day

Report defining quality curriculum and its impact on student learning

Article highlighting how high-quality instructional materials allow teachers to focus on what matters most: meeting students’ needs

Nonprofit that reviews and publishes ratings of ELA, math, and science curricula

Webinar describing the differences between the reviews conducted for ELA and ELA foundational skills materials

Step-by-step process for implementing high-quality instructional materials

DPI’s professional learning homepage including definitions and resources for professional learning in Wisconsin

This paper outlines the “elements” of effective, curriculum-based professional learning and its impact of instruction.

This article, co-authored by David Steiner and Thomas Kane looks at the benefits of combining strong curricula and better instruction to enable the effective teaching of high-quality materials.

This report highlights why school system leaders need to integrate curriculum into professional learning so teachers can focus on delivering excellent instruction.

Report underscoring the importance of providing teachers with professional learning on their curriculum in order to ensure it is used and used well

This literature review of 35 studies highlights conclusions about what constitutes effective teacher professional development.

This study gleans the most impactful elements of teacher professional development from a survey of elementary and middle school teachers.

This study delves into the relationship between professional learning and teachers’ views on the quality of their curricula.

This guide proposes three guiding principles for high-quality professional development based on existing research supplemented by interviews with diverse stakeholders.

This multi-year study examines and identifies what it takes to help teachers improve their practice, and demystifies some common misconceptions about teacher professional development.