The Office of Professional Development, in the New Jersey Department of Education's Division of Teacher and Leader Effectiveness, supports the work required to implement the New Jersey professional development requirements and the New Jersey Professional Standards for teachers and school leaders, as well as other state and federal educator effectiveness initiatives. The New Jersey professional development requirements, revised in June 2013, set forth a definition of professional development, the standards for professional learning and the structures for planning, implementing and monitoring professional development at the individual, school and district levels. The New Jersey Professional Standards, adopted by the State Board of Education in December 2003, provide a vision of the knowledge, performance and dispositions that teachers and school leaders need to support student learning and achievement of the revised Core Curriculum Content Standards.