Our Process
Professional learning partners have the potential to elevate your professional learning offerings, expand capacity, and bring in new expertise at critical times. It’s a big decision. To support the search for the perfect partner, Rivet Education created the Professional Learning Partner Guide (PLPG)—a list of thoroughly vetted professional learning providers who specialize in specific high-quality instructional materials(HQIM). Here’s how the process for selection works.
Gateway 1: Prove Your Curriculum Expertise
In Gateway 1, providers demonstrate expertise in one or both of these areas:
High Quality
Content-Area Knowledge
Passing this gateway unlocks the rest of the application
Gateway 2: Showcase Professional Learning Design
What types of professional learning do providers offer? Professional learning should be customized and tailored to educators’ needs. Those needs change as curriculum implementation progresses. Providers can apply to be reviewed for:
Existing providers can also apply for additional badges representing specialized expertise in key areas of professional learning. Currently, providers can earn a Students with Disabilities badge and a Science of Reading badge.
Gateway 3: Demonstrate Continuous Improvement
The professional learning field is continually growing and evolving, opening the door to newer, more effective methods and tools. For this gateway, providers share their evaluation model—grounded in Thomas Guskey’s Five Levels of Professional Development Evaluation Framework—showing how they track, reflect, and evolve their services.
Application Timeline
Meet Our Expert Review Team
Each application is evaluated fairly and consistently by a team of mission-driven reviewers with decades of experience in instruction, professional learning, and educational leadership. Our reviewers include teachers and leaders from schools, districts, and state agencies. Each reviewer is:
- Selected based on HQIM + PL expertise
- Trained on PLPG’s criteria and review process
How We Review
All feedback is rooted in clear evidence and shared criteria. Every application is:
Scored Individually
Consensus Calls
Rivet Final Review
Shaping Professional Learning Nationwide
Once approved, providers are notified of their status and begin the process of building their public profile. Profiles help state and district leaders find their perfect partners: experts in their curricula and aligned with their vision.
Profiles contain information to help decision-makers:
Get to Know the Partner
An introduction to the partner and their services
Information about the team
How the partner addresses equity
Understand the Partner’s Services
