In partnership with Rivet Education, NIRN is conducting a validation of their Professional Learning Partner Guide Rubric.  Rivet Education created a Professional Learning Partner Guide (PLPG), a searchable database of learning providers with expertise in the adoption and implementation of High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM). The development of the PLPG was in response to the lack of resources and guidance available to support districts with an evaluation of professional learning (PL) services. 

To be selected as a PL provider (PLP) in the PLPG, PL organizations and vendors have to submit an application that is reviewed and scored by Rivet Education using the PLPG Rubric (formerly known as the Scoring and Evidence Guide or SEG). The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) (Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), in collaboration with Rivet Education, was funded by the Gates Foundation to validate the PLPG rubric.