Plan Z Professional Learning Services

Hello Reader! You are allowed to rest! Woo hoo! Not after the last to-do. Not once you've processed everything. Not as long as you stay a little bit productive about it. Just rest. Please, listen to your body. Why this is hard Educators find meaning in service. You chose a role defined by showing up for others, and you've spent years building the habit of making sure everyone has what they need before you ask what you need. That's one of the most beautiful things about you. It's also one of...

Hello Reader! We're so excited to bring "Zero In" | a newsletter by Plan Z Education Services to Substack! A new home for our email subscriber and podcast listener community to get into some ideas deeper together. Our next article is posting will be out on Wednesday! Zero In is for educators who are ready to streamline their practice, edit out what no longer serves them, and align their daily work with what actually matters. It's for the teacher or leader who knows there's a simpler, more...

Hello Reader! Update on our summer workshops in the Memphis... We are moving them to online so we can accommodate more folks! Because these sessions will be virtual, the face-to-face part will be about 3 hours each day, with a "homework" component that participants will work on when not on Zoom, to bring to their sessions. Ready, Set, Teacher: A Workshop for Educators Who Want to Set the Stage for a Successful Year The first days of school lay the foundation for the entire academic year....

Hello Reader! Summer is not just a runway for September. It belongs to you! Enjoy it! Sometime in the first week of July, it happens. You're sitting somewhere that isn't school. Maybe a porch, a park, a coffee shop that doesn't smell like a cafeteria. And a small, persistent voice starts up: I should really get ahead on unit plans. I should revamp that system that didn't work this year. If I just spent one hour a day, I could have everything ready before August. Do you know this voice? We...

Hello Reader! We are so fortunate to have a such skilled planner on our team. Our coach, Nicole, is offering a set of collaborative planning sessions for teachers July 13-16 from 3pm-5pm Arizona time. Planning doesn't have to be a solo marathon at your kitchen table. Join Nicole for a focused, two-hour collaborative planning session where teachers come together to do the work that matters, alongside people who get it. In two hours, you'll trade the blank-page overwhelm for shared momentum....

Hello Reader! You did enough. Even when it didn't feel like enough. There is a particular kind of guilt that lives in educators at the end of the school year. It isn't dramatic, but it quietly narrates everything you didn't do. We will call it mild rumination. The student you didn't reach. The unit you didn't finish. The colleague you meant to check on. The parent email you wrote three times in your head and never sent. Most educators carry this list into summer without ever questioning...

Hello Reader! The year is over. Let it be over. Somewhere in the last week of school, most educators do something quietly extraordinary. They hold it together! Woohoo! For eight, nine, ten months, they've been the person students counted on, the one colleagues leaned on, the professional who kept showing up, through the hard and what felt like impossible days. And in those final hours, they hold the whole thing together one last time. Then the bell rings. The year ends. And nobody tells you...