{"product_id":"pkp-connect-groundwork-lori-ellen-pisani-9798903452972","title":"PKP Connect - Groundwork: Groundwork: Building the Conditions for Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTeaching does not begin with instruction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e It begins with the conditions that make learning possible.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGroundwork: Building the Conditions for Learning\u003c\/em\u003e is the first volume in \u003cem\u003eThe Alignment Series: How Human Systems Learn\u003c\/em\u003e, and it establishes a clear, foundational understanding of how learning actually unfolds in real classrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than introducing new programs, strategies, or mandates, this book examines something more fundamental: why students engage, persist, and make meaning-or why they don't. It reframes teaching as a human act shaped by relationships, readiness, regulation, and environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn many educational systems, social-emotional learning has been treated as a separate initiative, a behavioral tool, or a competing priority to academic instruction. This book clarifies its role differently. Social-emotional learning is not something added to instruction. It is the set of conditions that determines whether instruction can take hold at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in the Pisani-Kershaw Program (PKP), this work explores how learning depends on awareness, regulation, interaction, and reasoning not as isolated skills, but as integrated capacities embedded within academic work, particularly literacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, educators will examine: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy relationship is the condition that allows rigor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow readiness and emotional state shape cognitive access\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat social-emotional learning actually is, and what it is not\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy literacy serves as the natural home for developmental learning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow classroom environment, pacing, and presence influence engagement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy systems often erode effective teaching over time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow instructional ecosystems like PKP support coherence without adding burden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does not offer scripts, checklists, or compliance tools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It does not ask educators to take on therapeutic roles or adopt new identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, it provides a lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA way to understand what is already happening in classrooms and how instructional decisions either support or undermine learning in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of a three-book architecture: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eGroundwork\u003c\/em\u003e defines the conditions required for learning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cem\u003ePractice\u003c\/em\u003e examines instruction as it unfolds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cem\u003eAlignment\u003c\/em\u003e explores how systems sustain or disrupt teaching at scale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for educators, instructional leaders, and system-level thinkers, this book restores clarity to a field often fragmented by competing demands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause effective teaching is not built on more strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It is built on conditions that allow learning to happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lori-Ellen Pisani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798903452972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Buildingblocs Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.29d","brand":"Lori-Ellen Pisani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997568610559,"sku":"9798903452972","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pkp-connect-groundwork-lori-ellen-pisani-9798903452972","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}