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The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development Kindle Edition
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In The PD Book, bestselling author Elena Aguilar and co-author Lori Cohen offer seven habits—and a wealth of practical tools—that help you transform professional development. In this book, you'll learn how to inspire adult learners, the importance of having clear purpose, and how to navigate power dynamics in a group. You'll also learn a new way to plan PD that allows you to attend to details and be a responsive facilitator. The dozens of tips and tricks, anecdotes and research, and tools and resources will enable you to create the optimal conditions for learning.
You'll also:
- Craft effective outcomes for your adult students and design an agenda that aligns with adult learning principles
- Use storytelling as a tool for effective workshops and trainings
- Plan backwards from evaluations and outcomes to create powerful and lasting educational experiences
Ideal for educational leaders and administrators, professional development facilitators, coaches, and positional leaders in both K-12 and higher education, The PD Book is an incisive resource offering concrete strategies for educators at all levels.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherJossey-Bass
- Publication dateMay 18 2022
- File size3327 KB
From the Publisher
The PD Book is about creating the conditions for learning—for transformative learning. But what are "the conditions" in which learning happens?
Learning happens when:
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Learners understand the purpose for the learning they're involved in, and the purpose is clear, relevant, and meaningful. It's easy to see the benefits that will come from learning. |
The social, emotional, cognitive, and physical needs of learners are met. This includes feeling that you can share your thoughts, that the teacher or facilitator has your best interests at heart, that you are being appropriately challenged, and that other learners will support and encourage you as you learn. |
The design for the learning experience is carefully, thoughtfully constructed and based on learner needs. |
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Every last detail of the learning experience is anticipated and planned. |
Facilitators skillfully execute the learning plan and adapt, responding to learners when necessary. |
Facilitators are reflective, see themselves as learners, have a high degree of emotional intelligence and self-awareness, and can motivate people and inspire them to take risks and to stretch outside their comfort zones. |

How to create transformative PD: PARTY!
These are the conditions for learning. We've taken these, and everything we know about designing and facilitating professional development, and categorized them into seven habits. To help you remember them, we've also come up with an acronym: PARTY. This stands for Purpose, Audience, Routines, Technique, and You.
PURPOSE
Determine and share purpose and build buy-in to purpose
AUDIENCE
Attend to learner needs: Engage emotions and build psychological safety, navigate power, and act on principles of adult learning
ROUTINES
Plan: Design intentionally and attend to details
TECHNIQUE
Execute the plan: Facilitate adaptively
YOU
Know yourself, be clear on who you want to be, and bring your best self
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From the Back Cover
Develop and Sustain Your School Community with Transformational Professional Development
The PD Book offers seven practical habits—and a wealth of hands-on tools—that will revolutionize your school’s professional development. This book teaches educational leaders, administrators, professional development facilitators, coaches, and positional leaders how to inspire adult learners with a clear purpose and a strategy for navigating group power dynamics.
You’ll discover a new way to plan professional development that allows you to stay focused on important details and respond to your groups’ needs. You’ll also find dozens of actionable tips, tricks, anecdotes, research, tools, and resources to create an ideal learning environment.
“Ever wonder how to craft the kind of PD that changes hearts, minds, and behaviors? Mystery solved. Elena and Lori provide us with the concrete knowledge, tools, and skills to create inspirational PD that ultimately transforms schools.”
—JENN DAVID-LANG, Editor, THE MAIN IDEA
“Elena Aguilar brings to The PD Book a wealth of knowledge and expertise delivering high-quality learning experiences for teachers and leaders. Educators who design and deliver PD will gain unique, interesting, and pertinent insights from Aguilar’s ideas, her research, and the tools she offers for making PD joyful, meaningful and equitable.”
—ROBERT RYSHKE, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching, Westminster School, Atlanta, GA
About the Author
ELENA AGUILAR is Founderand 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.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.Product details
- ASIN : B0B1TCYTV5
- Publisher : Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (May 18 2022)
- Language : English
- File size : 3327 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 287 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #137,348 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

Elena has trained thousands of educators across the United States and abroad in transformational coaching and team development. She is a regular contributor for Edutopia and EdWeek Teacher and has published two highly acclaimed books: The Art of Coaching (2013) and The Art of Coaching Teams (2016) with an upcoming book titled Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators anticipated to release in May 2018.
Elena’s expertise derives from twenty years as a classroom teacher, instructional coach and leadership coach working in diverse school environments. In her role as a consultant, she has partnered with leaders in public and private organizations across the United States and abroad. She holds a B.A. in history and Latin American Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her teaching credential from California State University, Hayward, and she also holds an administrative services credential. Elena lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, son, and two cats. When she’s not coaching or writing she enjoys traveling abroad, photographing birds, hiking, drinking coffee and reading fiction.
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