In this article, the author wants to bury inservice and all of the outdated practices that go with it such as "delivery of professional development," "training," "staff development programs," "professional development activities," and "ippy dippys." She wants to bury them so deep that no educator will ever again use them to describe the learning that educators do in order to improve student learning. She stresses the need for a new language to create a world where professional learning makes a difference to student learning. With new language comes new understanding of the role that professional learning plays in creating new relationships within schools and achieving better results for kids. New language can command new respect from parents who now decry every hour that teachers spend away from the classroom because parents are personally inconvenienced when schools alter their schedules. New language can even change the way policy makers view the profession and its ability to determine the appropriate direction for schools and learning. She proposes calling these "professional learning plans." The phrase is more respectful of the learning process and it eliminates the expectation that individuals will be learning alone. Professional learning plans leave open the possibility that learning could include others, such as members of a learning team or an entire school. New language, she hopes, will bring with it new attitudes about learning.