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Summary
The book includes stories, insider tips and tricks, and a reflection activity at the end of each chapter.
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
• Pulling Back the Curtain
• Defining Professional Development
• What Is in This Book
• Who You Are and Who We Are
• What if PD Could Be More Like a Party?
Chapter 1: Determine Purpose
• Dismantling PD Apathy
• Purpose: The Foundation for Transformational Learning
• Create Purposeful Plans
• Communicate: Make the Learning Matter
• Putting It All Together
• Assessing Impact
Chapter 2: Engage Emotions
• What you Need to Know about Emotions to Deliver Transformative PD
• Grumpiness, Pet Peeves and Triggers
• Creating Psychological Safety
• Mitigating Dominant Culture: Creating Safe-ish Spaces
Chapter 3: Navigate Power
• Sources of Power
• Leveraging Power
• The Impact of Power
• Possibilities for Navigating Power
• How to Dissolve Resistance
• Start and End with Relationships
Chapter 4: Anchor in Adult Learning
• You Can’t Make People Learn
• Adult Learning Theory 101
• Adult Learning in the Virtual World
• You Can Create The Conditions For Learning
Chapter 5: Design Intentionally
• Tools for Intentional Design
• A Process for Intentional Design
• Mitigate the Dominant Culture in Design
Chapter 6: Attend to the Details
• Details Matter to Learning
• Long-term Planning: Get Ready
• Short-term Planning: Finalize the Details
• The Day of: Go Time
• Post-Event: Leave Things Better than You Found Them
Chapter 7: Facilitate Adaptively
• Detours Happen
• When Harm Happens
• The Roots of Adaptive Facilitation: Know Yourself
• Becoming an Adaptive Facilitator: Skill Sets to Refine
• Addressing PD Detours
• Reimagining What’s Possible
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Core Emotions
Appendix B: Nonviolent Communication Needs
Appendix C: What-Why-How Agenda Template
Appendix D: Structures for Virtual Learning
Appendix E: Checklist for Attending to Details
Appendix F: Resources for Further Learning
Glossary
References
Index
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