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In a time when most teachers and teacher educators have experienced the isolation of remote learning, we hope that this issue can go some way in helping them understand their experience in a broader context, as a shared experience. Teaching standards, national certification assessment, and professional development' by Anthony Petrosky was originally published in English in Australia in 1998. In this paper Petrosky examines the introduction of a national board certification in America for early adolescence/English language arts teachers. Petrosky examines the process of teacher standards design and implementation in America and considers the failings of standards to address the everyday work and professional development needs of teachers when they are designed by 'outsiders' The central concept in the