The Pd Book - by Elena Aguilar & Lori Cohen (Paperback)

About the Book

"The PD Book compiles everything the authors know about designing and facilitating professional development and have categorized that knowledge into eight habits (and eight chapters). The book will offer you habits and behaviors to emphasize the actions that you can take. Readers will also explore the beliefs and ways of being that are below the behaviors the authors encourage a reader to take, while focusing on the behaviors the authors would hope to see if they observed the reader delivering a PD session after reading this book. Readers will also discover how to make decisions when designing and delivering PD that not only navigate inequities, but that create equitable spaces. The book includes stories, insider tips and tricks, and a reflection activity at the end of each chapter"--

Book Synopsis

Develop transformational professional development programs that build and sustain your school community

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.

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 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.