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The PD Book: 7 Habits That Transform Professional Development

In The PD Book, bestselling writer Elena Aguilar and co-author Lori Cohen offer seven habits—and a wealth of practical tools—that assistance you transform professional development. In this book, you'll acquire how to inspire adult learners, the importance of having clear purpose, and how to navigate ability dynamics in a group. You'll also learn a new way to programme PD that allows yous to nourish to details and be a responsive facilitator. The dozens of tips and tricks, anecdotes and research, and tools and resources volition enable you lot to create the optimal conditions for learning.

You'll also:

  • Arts and crafts effective outcomes for your adult students and design an agenda that aligns with adult learning principles
  • Utilise storytelling as a tool for constructive 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 G-12 and college education,The PD Book is an incisive resource offer concrete strategies for educators at all levels.

Coaching for Disinterestedness: Conversations that Change Do

If nosotros are going to interrupt educational inequities and create schools in which every child thrives, nosotros must refine our chat skills. Coaching for Equity offers extensive strategies for talking about race, ability, and systems of oppression, strategies which atomic number 82 to changes in a teacher's do. This book is for teachers, leaders, and coaches who accept responsibility for interrupting inequities in schools and who want to build the knowledge and skills to bus for disinterestedness.

Coaching for Disinterestedness contains an updated Transformational Coaching framework and the tools and rubrics that are necessary to implement this model of coaching. In addition, personal narratives demonstrate what coaching for disinterestedness looks like and help united states see how we can make every conversation count towards edifice a more than just and equitable world.

Coaching for Equity covers key topics in the larger societal conversation surrounding equity, including:

  • understanding what equity is and what it should expect like in your schoolhouse
  • recognizing and preventing inequities in the classroom and schoolhouse community
  • realizing the path that created inequitable environments in your school
  • making changes that contribute to an equitable environment
  • raising awareness for bug of inequity

The Art of Coaching

Elena Aguilar's get-go book isThe Art of Coaching, (Jossey-Bass, 2013). Readers notice it informative and actionable, inspiring and illuminating, and applicable in many contexts.

The Art of Coaching offers the foundational skills and tools needed past coaches, equally well every bit presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind coaching best practice. Established coaches will find numerous means to deepen and refine their work. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will likewise discover a wealth of resources. Elena offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented every bit professional development in schools or districts anywhere. Although she addresses the needs of adult learners, her model maintains a pupil-centered focus, with a specific lens trained always on addressing equity problems in schools.

The Art of Coaching

  • offers a practical resource for school coaches, principals, district leaders, and other administrators
  • presents a transformational coaching model which addresses systems modify
  • pays explicit attending to surfacing and interrupting inequities in schools
  • offers a compendium of schoolhouse coaching ideas

"When my copy arrived, I expected to discover some smashing how-to advice (which is nowadays throughout The Fine art of Coaching) but I had no idea Elena's book would be and then potentially transformative for its audience. Information technology practices what information technology preaches – the transparency, the trust-edifice, the human being connection so necessary to gear up the phase for growth and positive modify, information technology'south all there in her own vocalization and writing. My guess is that x years from at present, if we examine the Essential Reference shelves of the nation'southward all-time pedagogy coaches, nosotros volition find well-worn, gummy-note filled copies of this extraordinary book."

John Norton, founder of MiddleWeb

"Having Elena Aguilar'south The Art of Coaching in my bag has been like having my own passenger vehicle nearby."

Sarah Gordon, coach in CT, writing for MiddleWeb

"This book challenges coaches to be fully intentional–with equal doses of care and rigor."

Lynda Tredway, Independent Leadership Coach and former coordinator, Principal Leadership Institute, U.C. Berkeley

"Elena Aguilar knows how to foster the bravery and humility teachers must accept to transform their practices. Her methods will aid coaches become the trusted, supportive forces nosotros need in our pedagogy lives."

Ariel Sacks, instructor leader and instruction writer, Brooklyn, NY

"To produce drastic gains in the academic accomplishment levels of our students nosotros need the strongest, nearly prepared teachers. The Art of Coaching provides concrete, actionable steps to move teachers along the continuum of excellence to meet this challenge head on."

Heather Lechner, turnaround school leader, New Orleans, LA

A practical guide for getting the most out ofThe Art of Coaching

The Art of Coaching Workbook is the resource yous've been waiting for to accompany Elena Aguilar'sThe Art of Coaching. Ideal for new and novice coaches, every bit well as for those who accept years of coaching under their chugalug, this workbook will assist you ameliorate your coaching skills.

This vital companion text includes:

  • Dozens of activities to assistance y'all internalize the concepts described inThe Art of Coaching
  • Exercises to guide you in identifying your ain coaching beliefs, mode, and practices
  • Short and lengthy transcripts of coaching conversations
  • Additional examples of key concepts inThe Art of Coaching, including the Ladder of Inference and the Coaching Lenses
  • New ideas and data that build on those inThe Art of Coaching

This workbook is also for those who atomic number 82 and manage coaches. An entire chapter is dedicated to structures, routines, and practices that are like shooting fish in a barrel to implement in professional development sessions. In addition, a new Transformational Coaching Rubric and other tools for cess and reflection are included. If you aspire to provide meaningful learning for coaches, and you already acceptThe Art of Coaching, this workbook is all y'all'll need.

The Art of Coaching Teams

The Art of Coaching Teams is a playbook for creating and leading cracking teams.The Art of Coaching Teams celebrates the art in leading great teams and provides a practical framework to help you understand the unique factors about your team and movement the team toward common goals.

You'll larn the authoritative tasks that keep your team on track, and you'll gain access to a wealth of downloadable tools that simplify the "getting organized" process. Equally important, yous'll explore what information technology means to exist the kind of leader that tin bring people together to accomplish difficult tasks. You'll find practical suggestions, tools, and clear instructions for the logistics of team development as well as tools for edifice trust, developing healthy communication, and managing conflict.

Inside you lot'll find concrete guidance on:

  • designing agendas, making decisions, and establishing effective protocols
  • boosting your resilience, understanding and managing your emotions, and meeting your goals
  • cultivating your team's emotional intelligence and dealing with cynicism
  • utilizing practical tools to create a customized framework for developing highly effective teams

"At that place are many books on coaching, but this i you must have. Aguilar has written a comprehensive volume on coaching that provides enormously useful ideas, concepts, and strategies in an extremely accessible form. This is one of the all-time books on coaching I have read and a book that will make anyone a better and more reflective leader."

Kent D. Peterson, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Shaping Schoolhouse Civilisation

"Elena Aguilar's book is an extremely practical guide to leading teams that doesn't ignore the complexity of that important work. If yous're a coach who leads teams, this is a must read."

Jim Knight, author of Instructional Coaching: A Partnership to Improving Instruction

"In The Art of Coaching Teams, Aguilar succeeds in translating her transformational coaching framework into a practical and heartening resource for all who coach and manage teams. She infuses 30+ years of research on emotional intelligence, team development, and leadership with her unique blend of empathy, clarity, and hope."

Laurelin Andrade, Manager of Coaches

"Elena's volume provides leaders with a framework to create, autobus and manage effective teams – with both pity and clarity. The powerful personal anecdotes humanize a daunting process, and the detailed scripts allow for ample opportunities to do."

Maia Heyck-Merlin, author, The Together Teacher and The Together Leader

"Drawing deeply on her lived experiences, Aguilar offers readers a path to leadership characterized by reflection, intention, and humility. In balancing the practical and profound, The Fine art of Coaching Teams lives up to its hope as a guide for leaders who seek to transform themselves and their teams."

Brianna Crowley, High Schoolhouse Instructor and Instructional Passenger vehicle, Hershey, PN

"Anyone who believes that a school's student culture is just every bit strong as a school'southward developed culture would greatly benefit from reading this volume. The guidelines that Aguilar provides elevate the technical "how to" and offers adaptive moves for edifice a transformative community in any environment."

Yanira Canizalez, Founding Caput of School, Lodestar-A Lighthouse Community Charter Public School, Oakland, CA

Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators

Onward(Jossey-Bass, 2018) is Elena's long-awaited resource on how nosotros can manage stress, foreclose burnout and thrive as educators. It is applied, informative, inspirational and relevant to new teachers, mid-career and experienced teachers, and to leaders committed to boosting the resilience of their staff. Grounded in science, social science, and psychology, and peppered with Elena's personal narratives, this book will undoubtedly modify the mode we think virtually emotions, stress, and our purpose every bit educators. The book focuses on the 12 habits that cultivate resilience, and their correlating dispositions, and provides a roadmap for how to feel more effective, more fulfilled, and happier at work.Onward offers a 12 month curriculum for individuals and groups, and is accompanied byThe Onward Workbookwhich includes hundreds of activities to boost your resilience.

Onward also has its own website, www.onwardthebook.com, where you can find more data about the book and further resources.

"Elena Aguilar's latest book, Onward, is a gift. Information technology is grounded in current research and twenty + years of Ms. Aguilar's experiences pedagogy and coaching. This book is a supportive and encouraging guide for how to better i's self every bit a instructor, administrator and man being. Filled with practical, applicable ideas and inspiring stories, Onward fills a much-needed niche in the classic instructor library of how-to books which typically requite advice that rests solely on classroom practices and instruction. Instead, this book focuses on making each teacher and administrator a ameliorate, stronger person, which, in turn, volition make each of them a better stronger instructor and leader. With her focus on cultivating resilience, Aguilar is realistic: stress will never go abroad merely strengthening our response to stress can bring more joy, deeper connections and increased personal satisfaction. Without a dubiety, this book will modify schools and lives for the meliorate."

Judith Wolochow, veteran educator

"Onward provides schoolhouse leaders an invaluable resource to enrich the lives of the teachers in their schools, keep them growing, and not accept to replace them every year. Imagine leading when more people choose to follow because they trust you and are certain of your humanity! Onward provides principals with a transmission to practise so."

Cheryl Beeson, leadership coach & former primary

The Onward Workbook: Daily Activities to Cultivate Your Emotional Resilience and Thrive

An empowering journey that keeps keen teachers in the classroomThe Onward Workbook is a collection of tools and strategies that help teachers banish the burnout and cultivate true resilience. Keyed to the framework presented in Onward, this companion piece augments the text with practical exercises, coaching, and step-by-footstep walkthroughs of beneficial practices. Deep introspection allows you to verbalize your feelings, name your challenges, and identify the tools you have and the tools you need—from there, you'll explore each of the 12 Key Habits and learn how to put them into practice every day.

In cultivating resilience within yourself and your teaching do, you improve your health, your outlook, and your relationships while building an environment in which every child succeeds. This workbook takes you on a journey of specific self-discovery that changes your perspective, renews your confidence, and empowers you to make the much-needed changes that allow you to continue inspiring young minds.

  • Dig deeper within to discover what you're truly made of
  • Decode circuitous emotions, trunk language, and nonverbal communications
  • Challenge your beliefs, build community, and navigate hard interactions
  • Learn more, feel more, play more, and do constructive self-care