PD Book

ELENA AGUILAR is Founder and President of Bright Morning Consulting, an international education, coaching, and consulting firm that offers new learning practices to organizations that aspire to build resilient communities and a just and equitable world. She has twenty years’ experience as a classroom teacher and instructional and leadership coach.LORI COHEN has over twenty years' experience working in public and independent schools as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, administrator, and workshop facilitator. She designs practical and portable learning experiences and facilitates sessions with a strong infusion of humor and heart.

• About the Authors xiiiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction1A Couple Notes on Anonymity and Terminology 4Pulling Back the Curtain 4Defining Professional Development 7Creating the Conditions for Learning 12What If PD Could Be More Like a Party? 16Who We Are and Who You Are 18What Is in This Book? 20Before You Go 231 Determine Purpose 25Dismantling PD Apathy 26Purpose: The Foundation for Transformational Learning 27Create Purposeful Plans 32Communicate: Make the Learning Matter 37Putting It All Together 40Assessing Impact 42Before You Go 472 Engage Emotions 49What You Need to Know about Emotions to Deliver Transformative PD 51Grumpiness, Pet Peeves, and Triggers 59Creating Psychological Safety 64Mitigating Dominant Culture: Creating Safe-ish Spaces 75Beyond Psychological Safety 80Before You Go 833 Navigate Power 85Sources of Power 88Leveraging Power 99The Impact of Power 102Possibilities for Navigating Power 106How to Dissolve Resistance 112Start and End with Relationships 117Before You Go 1184 Anchor in Adult Learning 119You Can’t Make People Learn 121Adult Learning Theory 101 126The Stages of Learning 133Adult Learning in the Virtual PD World 138You Can Create the Conditions for Learning 140Before You Go 1415 Design Intentionally 143Tools for Intentional Design 146A Process for Intentional Design 154Shift the Dominant Culture in Design 171Before You Go 1756 Attend to Details 177Details Matter to Learning 179Long-Term Planning: Get Ready 182Short-Term Planning: Finalize the Details 196The Day Of: Go Time 200Closing: Leave Things Better Than You Found Them 205Before You Go 2087 Facilitate Adaptively 209Detours Happen 211When Harm Happens 214The Roots of Adaptive Facilitation: Know Yourself 217Becoming an Adaptive Facilitator: Skill Sets to Refine 221Addressing PD Detours 228Reimagining What’s Possible 236Before You Go 237Conclusion239 Appendix A: The Core Emotions 243Appendix B: Nonviolent Communication’s Universal Human Needs 247Appendix C: What-Why-How Agenda Template 253Appendix D: Structures for Virtual Learning 255Appendix E: Checklist for Attending to the Details 257Appendix F: Resources for Further Learning 261Glossary 263References 267Index 269