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May 2022
20m 20s

It’s All In the Details: Episode 125

ELENA AGUILAR
About this episode

Details can make or break a learning experience, yet are too often overlooked or deprioritized as “logistics”. It’s time for that to change. 

In this episode, Elena shares why attending to the details is one of the 7 habits that transforms professional development, provides a couple of strategies you can start using right away to better attend to the details, and offers reflection questions to help you in your learning about designing and facilitating PD. 

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