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C&S563--#10

C&S563--#10. Educational Change. Beliefs About Change. Using the list of statements and grid, place your beliefs about change in the rectangle in each box. 1 belief you agree with most 2 beliefs you agree with 2nd most 3 most neutral beliefs 2 beliefs you disagree with 2nd most

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C&S563--#10

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  1. C&S563--#10 Educational Change

  2. Beliefs About Change Using the list of statements and grid, place your beliefs about change in the rectangle in each box. • 1 belief you agree with most • 2 beliefs you agree with 2nd most • 3 most neutral beliefs • 2 beliefs you disagree with 2nd most • 1 belief you disagree with most

  3. Guidelines for Successful Change Linda MacRae Campbell • Identify a new mission or a need for reform within the school. • Target a high profile concern or need within a school • Write a mission statement

  4. Seek support for educational change • Provide rationale for change with research back up. • Don’t need majority or consensus

  5. Educational reform endeavors should be well organized and coordinated. • Timelines, activities, task forces, etc. • Short-term and long-term goals • Formative and summative evaluations

  6. Secure needed resources • Human and material • Extensive and on-going staff development • TIME!

  7. Acknowledge the emotional reaction to change • 5 stages (uninformed optimism, informed pessimism, hopeful realism, informed optimism, a sense of rewarding completion) • Implementation Dip • Resistors

  8. Anticipate restructuring problems and identifying problem-solving skills • Plan how to solve problems before they arise.

  9. Share the leadership • Teams • Effective communication channels

  10. Anchor the innovation as quickly as possible to classroom practice • Supervision and evaluation • Watch for implementation dip

  11. Embed the renewal effort and process into organizational practice • Philosophy • Budget • Policies • practices

  12. Activity • Taking the 9 guidelines, discuss in group which guidelines were followed and which were ignored in the study of the change initiative you read for today, “Out on a Limb…”

  13. A Final Look • Tomorrow after we finish the Change Game, we will revisit the list of beliefs and see if they have changed.

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