The PD Book

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