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There have been far too many times when we have observed something that was called professional development, but we've thought, this is not PD. There's no learning going on in this room. The facilitator just wants participants to nod and accept his opinions and do what he says. When we have found ourselves in a faculty room or a conference hall watching educators grade papers in their laps during a professional development, we feel deflated. There's no learning going on in the room, and we can't blame the participants.

The term professional development (PD) can be used to mean a lot of different things from this kind of mindless training to sessions with the HR team about insurance options. Before you continue, take a moment to think about how you define professional development, how it's defined where you work, and, perhaps, what you wish PD meant.