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Identifying the structures in which PD happens helps us home in on an understanding of PD. In schools, PD typically happens in the twice‐a‐month all‐staff PD meetings or on a Wednesday afternoon or during the two intensive days in August before school starts when the district convenes teachers for training on a new initiative. PD can also take other forms: When teachers who are part of a professional learning community (PLC) undertake an inquiry project together, that's PD. Instructional Rounds can also be PD. Individual and team coaching is PD. And PD can also take place via an online course, at a conference, or through a book study.

While any of these structures—and there are many more—can house PD, we don't know whether true PD is happening until we consider development. And here we get at the core of our definition of PD: The goal of PD is to change practice.