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If you were going to attend a PD session with us, we'd let you know before you showed up what to expect. We'd tell you what will happen and why, we'd tell you how the learning will happen, and we'd give you tips on how to get the most out of the learning experience. We might also assign pre‐work so that you'd be primed for the learning. We hope you'll experience this book as a learning experience, so we want you to know what's in it—what you can anticipate, suggestions for how to read and use it, and what makes this book different from other books on PD.

Before you continue reading, we encourage you to pause for a moment and see if you can identify a few challenges you deal with when designing and delivering PD. Perhaps you don't know how to get everyone to participate. Or you design PD sessions but always run out of time. Or you often have grumbly participants who mutter, “Why do we have to do this?” Or folks engage in PD sessions, but when you visit their classrooms, they aren't incorporating any of what you taught them. What's hard for you about doing PD?

Tips and Tricks: At the outset of a learning experience, ask learners to preview the agenda and identify what they're looking forward to. This allows them to find the portions that might be most relevant to them and therefore to cultivate positive anticipation. In addition, invite learners to share what they're looking forward to with each other. Often, these brief exchanges reveal that participants are looking forward to very different aspects of the agenda, which can help people buy into activities that they might not have been excited about.

As you read the following pages, we encourage you to star or highlight the things you're excited to learn—to cultivate your own positive anticipation.