Plan Z Professional Learning Services

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. And it's launching TODAY! 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 intentional way to do this work...

Hello Reader! Christine and I (Tammy) have been planning what the podcast will look like for Summer 2026! We have had such a growth in listeners and downloaders this season that we want to ensure you still receive some new and valuable content this summer while we would normally be on hiatus from recording. So here is what we are doing... we want you to send us questions you have about how to: prioritize, streamline, align, reduce, reimagine, remove, reinvent, rethink - anything that comes up...

Hello Reader! Woo! It's here! We are so excited to announce our Designing Effective Learning Environments Accelerator has launched. Read all about it here! Want a quick audit to check your school "noise level"? Get the free audit here. Coming Up : Tammy will be presenting at: Engage Learning Conference, June 9-10 in Birmingham, AL - Edit to Elevate: Simplifying School Leadership for Lasting Impact Learning Forward Texas, June 16-17 in the Dallas area - Edit to Elevate: Simplifying School...

Hello Reader! The relationships you built with colleagues this year are worth protecting through the finish. Most end-of-year conversations focus on students, and they should! But the sometimes the most overlooked relationship in a school in May isn't the one between teacher and student. It might be the one between educators themselves. By May, most teams are fraying a little at the edges. The social energy that carried everyone through fall has been spent. Meetings are harder, patience is...

Hello Reader! Your students are watching how you end things. Make it count. By May, your students have learned something important about you. Not just the curriculum or your classroom procedures. They've learned how you handle hard things, how you show up when you're tired, how you treat people you disagree with, and whether you actually mean what you say about belonging and growth. Everything you've done this year has been teaching them something. The final weeks of school are no exception....

Hello Reader! At Plan Z, we have been working hard on our Designing Effective Learning Environment workshops and accelerator. We are tying this work to a garden analogy. If you would like to share a photo of your school garden, please send it in! We would be happy to show as many gardens as possible in our workshops with educators around the country! You can simply reply to this email with your location, the kind of garden you are tending (what's going to grow in it), and the photo(s) you...

Hello Reader! Christine and I (Tammy) have been planning what the podcast will look like for Summer 2026! We have had such a growth in listeners and downloaders this season that we want to ensure you still receive some new and valuable content this summer while we would normally be on hiatus from recording. So here is what we are doing... we want you to send us questions you have about how to: prioritize, streamline, align, reduce, reimagine, remove, reinvent, rethink - anything that comes up...