PKP Connect - Alignment

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Systems That Protect Good Teaching

Lori-Ellen Pisani, Aaron B Kershaw

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English

Buildingblocs Publishing
01 April 2026

Educational strategies & policy; Organisation & management of education

Series: Pkp Connect

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Systems do not improve teaching by adding more.

They improve it by protecting what already works.

Alignment: Systems That Protect Good Teaching is the third volume in The Alignment Series: How Human Systems Learn, and it shifts the focus from classroom practice to the systems that surround it.

While many efforts in education focus on improving individual teaching skill, this book examines a deeper and often overlooked reality: even strong instructional practice cannot sustain itself inside misaligned systems. Leadership decisions, professional development structures, policy pressures, and accountability demands all shape what is possible inside classrooms.

This work explores how systems either protect or distort teaching over time.

Rather than offering programs or implementation models, Alignment presents a clear framework for understanding how instructional ecosystems function, and why good teaching often erodes under pressure despite best intentions.

Grounded in the Pisani-Kershaw Program (PKP), this book examines:

How leadership posture functions as instruction at scale Why initiative overload fractures instructional coherence How professional development can support thinking instead of compliance Why guardrails protect practice better than mandates How measurement systems often distort social-emotional learning The role of coaching as a bridge between classroom and system How accountability pressure reshapes instruction if left unmanaged Why alignment must be actively protected, not assumed

This is not a book about controlling systems.

It is a book about understanding them.

It reframes alignment not as uniformity, but as coherence between values, decisions, and conditions. It challenges leaders to move beyond surface-level alignment efforts and instead examine how systems behave when teaching becomes complex, slow, or difficult.

Part of a three-book architecture:

Groundwork defines the conditions required for learning

Practice examines instruction as it unfolds

Alignment explores how systems sustain or disrupt teaching at scale

Written for school leaders, instructional coaches, educators, and system-level thinkers, this book offers a disciplined lens for protecting instructional integrity without reducing teaching to compliance

Because effective systems are not defined by what they demand.

They are defined by what they protect.

By: Lori-Ellen Pisani, Aaron B Kershaw
Imprint: Buildingblocs Publishing
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 195g
ISBN: 9798903452996
Series: Pkp Connect
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 01 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active