Professional learning is acknowledged as key to improving teaching practice. With the great disruption to educational continuity induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, requiring a rapid shift from face-to-face learning to a learning-from-home model required teachers to change their practice. In 'normal' times, carefully planned professional learning would be a key element to support changes in teaching practice. However, in the 'new normal' this time was not available and professional learning for teachers was evident in quite different formats and forms. Drawing on the notes taken from meetings with the leaders of learning within a national network of more than 50 non-government school leaders as they navigated their way through this new space, we sought to develop an understanding of the extent to which the key elements of effective professional learning were evident in the professional learning available to teachers during this time. What has become clear is that teachers have been willing to make rapid and radical changes to their teaching practice and that professional learning was key to supporting teachers to successfully make these changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]