A sub-committee of the New York State Teacher Center Evaluation and Strategy Committee spent one year converting the Teacher Center Standards, developed several years earlier by the Evaluation and Strategy Committee, into rubrics.  Using a template designed for Giselle Martin-Kneip’s “Communities for Learning” http://www.communitiesforlearning.org and tools crafted by teacher centers across the state, the rubrics were designed to give policy boards and teacher center staff another instrument to use in centers’ continuous quest for excellence in developing high quality professional development.  The rubrics can be used to complete an End of Year evaluation, an End of Year Self-Study, or as a guide for the operation of a teacher center.