Plan Z Professional Learning Services

Hello Reader! We’ve got a new SMS challenge in partnership with the Lindsay and Angela from the EduCoach Survival Guide community for a...."Declutter into Summer Text Challenge"! This challenge is designed to help teachers and instructional coaches declutter their spaces gradually, engage students in the process, & close out the school year feeling calm and prepared (not frazzled!).Starts May 11th ➡️ Text CLEANUP to 844-503-5907 Respond to this email with your questions. Yours, P.S. Forward...

Hello Reader! We have been working hard behind the scenes to refine what Plan Z offers schools and educators. Our Designing Effective Learning Environment Accelerator is launching soon. This will be the cornerstone of the work we do with schools. We still offer our coaching services and workshops, but the Accelerator is the work we see as the most foundational in our partnerships. We can't wait to share this with you! In the meantime, you can share some information about your school with us!...

Hello Reader! Rest is not a reward for finishing. It's part of how you finish well. There's a quiet lie that runs underneath the end of the school year, and most educators believe it without ever saying it out loud. The lie goes like this: rest comes after. After the final exam. After the last field trip. After grades are submitted. After the year is officially over. Only then do you get to exhale. But waiting until late May or June to rest means arriving in June with nothing left. And...

Hello Reader! We have been working hard behind the scenes to refine what Plan Z offers schools and educators. We just created something we know teachers and school leaders want. A "School Noise Audit" to help evaluate some of the noise that occupies the environment. Download the PDF and use the audit to work through a set of questions that will give you a noise score. You may be surprised by what you find. Get the School Noise Audit PDF Coming Up : Josephine will be presenting at several...

Hello Reader! You don't need to finish big. You need to finish whole. As April closes, we want to offer you something that isn't a checklist. It's a permission slip. You don't have to finish this school year with a breakthrough. You don't need a highlight reel moment. You don't need to tie everything up neatly. You need to finish whole: present, connected, and still grounded in your values. That is enough. That is, in fact, extraordinary. What "Finishing Whole" Looks Like Finishing whole...

Hello Reader! Your classroom is still telling students something. Make sure it's true. At some point in the spring, most learning environments stop reflecting what's actually happening inside them. The bulletin boards show October's thinking. The anchor charts reference a unit from January. The seating arrangement was set in September and hasn't been reconsidered since. This isn't laziness. It's momentum. But the environment students inhabit sends a message every single day and April is a...

Hello Reader! The relationships you've built this year are the work. By April, it's easy to see your classroom or school through a lens of what hasn't happened yet. The standards not yet mastered. The goals not quite reached. The systems still imperfect. But here's what that lens misses entirely: the relationships you've built since September are not a backdrop to the work, they are the work. April is the right time to return to them. Why Relationships Drift Relationships with students,...