Professional Learning Workshops
Stop Managing Resistance. Start Learning From It.
Professional learning for school and district leaders navigating change. Every session is built on the frameworks from The Resistance Solution and grounded in your team’s real situations.
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Resistance isn’t defiance. It’s information.
Most leaders respond to resistance by pushing harder: more messaging, more monitoring, more meetings. (And then more meetings about the meetings.) Our workshops teach a different move. Diagnose first, then support.
Leaders learn to read what’s underneath the hesitation, match their support to what each educator needs, and help people move from compliance to ownership.
Choose Your Starting Point
Whether you have one hour or one year, there’s a way to bring this work to your team.
Keynotes
Conferences and kickoffs
Open your event with a talk that reframes resistance as information and gives every leader in the room a new lens for the year ahead.
Workshops
Half or full day | In person
Hands-on sessions where leaders practice on their own situations. Choose Going Beyond Buy-In to diagnose and respond to resistance, or Critical Conversations to hold accountability without breaking trust.
Coaching Academy
6 modules + 1:1 coaching
Coaches learn one skill at a time, use it in their buildings, and get one-on-one coaching before the next module.
Book Studies
Led by Becca or your team
Bring The Resistance Solution to your leadership team. Choose a Leader Book Study Series led by Becca, or Facilitator Training to certify your own leaders to run it.
Keynotes and workshops are also available virtually. Ask about options
Deepest Impact
The Human-Centered Coaching Academy
One great PD day builds momentum. The Academy builds skill. Across six in-person modules, coaches learn one core coaching skill at a time and apply it through all five Catalyst Mindsets™.
Between every module, each participant gets one-on-one virtual coaching on the situations they’re facing right now.
What Leaders Are Saying
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I had that veteran teacher who felt she didn't need me as a coach... Two weeks ago, she invited me into her room. She's now using my strategies and asking me questions about her teaching.
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One teacher had a completely silent, compliant class. Students were constantly failing because all they did was listen.... After 4 weeks, 80% of students were participating with no reminders, and test scores increased.
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Teachers have bought in to the Science of Reading more, just because we have built a culture of trust. Teams are looking at data more and using it to drive instruction.
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I have been feeling a lot of frustration lately. I woke up today with a new perspective and was very intentional with my questioning and responses. It felt amazing, like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders.
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My first year as an AP, we grew them 14 percentage points in overall ELA reading growth just by shifting our perspective on what resistance is: not a teacher being difficult, but an unmet need. When you meet those needs, those teachers just thrive.
What Working Together Looks Like
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Connect
We start with a conversation about your initiative and your people, so the session fits before anything is booked.
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Experience
Every session is interactive, so nobody spends it quietly answering email in the back row. Your leaders practice on the real resistance they’re facing, not generic examples.
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Follow Through
You leave with tools and a clear next step, because the gap between PD and practice is where most initiatives stop making progress.
Tired of dragging your team toward change like a couch that won’t fit through the door?
Let’s figure out why it’s stuck and get it moving.
Paying by purchase order? We’ll handle the invoice.
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