Created for educators in multiple roles, Action Guides are intended to support educators in understanding and fulfilling their responsibilities in putting Standards for Professional Learning into motion in their contexts.

Each Action Guide outlines high-level responsibilities and includes a tool to help educators identify the first steps they can take to implement standards.

Action Guides for those in coach, system/central office, principal, and external partner roles also include Innovation Configuration maps, which describe in detail specific behaviors educators undertake in fulfilling their responsibilities related to standards.