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“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

“Grounded in research on adult learning and drawing from many years of experience, Elena Aguilar and Lori Cohen take readers on a journey into creating transformative professional development. They share strategies for building community and creating spaces that are antiracist and welcoming for participants of all backgrounds. Chapters show presenters how to engage emotions, effectively counter resistance, and navigate power. This book is a must‐have for new as well as seasoned professional developers, invigorating all with the courage to provide bold, motivating, and magical sessions.”

—Becki Cohn‐Vargas, Ed.D. Author of Identity Safe Classrooms, Places to Belong and Learn

“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

“In this book, Elena invites educators to level up their ability to humanize learning for adults. These are the key skills we need today if we are serious about reimagining what teaching and learning look like for equity‐minded coaches and teacher‐leaders who are in charge of professional learning.”

—Zaretta Hammond, teacher educator and author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

“Today's students need their teachers to be engaged in professional learning that helps these educators develop new relationships to learning and to each other. Aguilar's latest book shares key guideposts, facilitation moves and reflective questions that will help novice and experienced PD leaders alike to change how educators are thinking and feeling about professional learning so that it truly transforms their teaching.”

—Jill Harrison Berg, Ed.D. Author of Uprooting Instructional Inequity: The Power of Inquiry‐Based Professional Learning

“Elena and Lori's approach to professional learning is truly transformational. The tools and insights transcend any sector and prepare readers to facilitate professional development that pushes leaders and learners further down path toward justice.”

—Sherene Judeh, Chief Program Officer of Ampact

“Aguilar and Cohen have written the quintessential book on adult learning. With a keen eye to equity, The PD Book provides the perfect blend of anecdotes, tools, and practical guidance for anyone wishing to design and deliver transformative professional development in the education space.

—Ben Owens, Co‐Founder of Open Way Learning

“Elena has created a refreshing blueprint for every leader who is striving to create a healthy and intentional learning organization. If you are a leader searching to create opportunities for deep connection and learning through PD, this book will take you on a transformative journey and push you to design PD that shifts thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of every human in your care. Elena and her team truly "pull the curtain back" on fostering environments for change—her work and her generosity are a true gift to leaders and PD practitioners.”

—Shawna Wells, CEO of Wells Coaching and Consulting and B is for Black Brilliance

“In a time of professional alienation and teacher attrition, Elena Aguilar and Lori Cohen offer us a hopeful, liberating vision for professional learning. The PD Book sits at the intersection of theory and practice, modeling from start to finish the authors’ assertion that ‘storytelling is medicine.’ The chapter on navigating power stands out as deeply relevant for the societal moment we find ourselves in. Leaders at all levels who are looking to transform compliance‐based PD: get this book, highlight and dogear it, and in its pages, find a pathway to realizing the adult learning environment that you long for.”

—Shane Safir, Author, Coach, Facilitator, Listening and Leading for Equity

7 Habits That Transform Professional Development

Elena Aguilar

Lori Cohen

Copyright © 2022 by Elena Aguilar. All rights reserved.

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