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CHAPTER 3Navigate Power

As soon as Terry walked into the library, Elena could tell that the PD session would be a battle. Terry was 15 minutes late, she was noisily crunching on tortilla chips, and when she registered that the meeting had already started, she loudly whispered insincere apologies and said, “I'll go to timeout! So sorry, so sorry.” She proceeded to sit in a chair on the other side of the room and pulled out a red pen and a stack of papers to grade.

“It's okay, Terry,” Elena said, “we're just getting started. You can sit with your grade‐level team.”

“That would be disruptive,” Terry said. “And anyway, I've done this activity ...

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