Successful professional development as identified in the Best Evidence Synthesis included: 

• the degree to which teachers understood and shared the goals and understandings presented in the professional development;  

• teachers’ understandings of underlying theories and principles, and the opportunities they were given to translate these into their own contexts; 

• the availability of mutually accepted evidence for the effectiveness of the new approaches; the time and frequency of opportunities afforded teachers to translate new learning into practice and to refine it; and 

• the opportunity to work in professional learning communities with others who shared the same goals and faced the same challenges.

This RTLB literacy project will provide some of these factors, for example understanding theories and principles and evidence of effectiveness, but you will need to determine which of the others you need to plan for in your own setting.