Transcript Leading Change - Asheboro City Schools

Teacher Leadership Academy
March 15, 2012
Candace Call
Kemper Fitch
Julie Pack
Welcome
 Introductions
 Our Team
 Ouida Myers and Cynthia Sartain– DPI Technology
Consultants
 Quick
overview of the Day
Objectives:
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Participants will understand conditions necessary for
successful change to take place.
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Participants will ‘discover’ obstacles to change and possible
methods for overcoming those obstacles.
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Using quotes from 4 leaders in the field of educational
change, the participants will be able to relate the assigned
quote to change(s) they’ve experienced and report out what
the quote means to them as teacher leaders.
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Participants will understand ‘loss’ as part of the change
process and will experience some strategies for handling loss
and ‘letting go’.
There is nothing more difficult to take in
hand, more perilous to conduct, or more
uncertain in its success, than to take the
lead in the introduction of a new order of
things.
- Machiavelli, The Prince
For the next few hours we will be:
 Making Change:
◦ Year 1
◦ Break (and project feedback)
◦ Debrief Year 1
◦ Year 2
◦ Break
◦ Making connections; final debrief
Lunch!!!!
 Be
back by 1:15!
A series of activities: Relating professional
writing to your own experiences:
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Staying Positive in Negative Times – Patterson and Patterson, ASCD,
2009, vol 67, no 2
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Break and Project Feedback
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How to Ensure Change Success - Reeves, 2009, pp. 152-153
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Assumptions Basic to Successful Educational Change Reeves, 2009, p. 154
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Confronting the Brutal Facts of Substantive Change – DuFour et al,
2006, pp. 190-191
Putting it All Together
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It’s a Different Place: Sanger, California
 Sanger, California educators see student success by
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creating collaborative teams and strong lines of
communication among schools, teachers, and the district.
-The goal of all change leaders is to get movement in an
improved direction. (1:11)
-Sanger's three core values are listed. (4:06)
-The crucial skinny is that you have to take the risk. (4:35)
-Nothing succeeds like collective capacity. (7:54)
-The value of 'friendly competition.' (9:43)
-Motion leadership is different. It changes context for the
very reason that context is everything. (11:48)
Thank you…
 Questions?
 Final
comments?
Resources referenced today:
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Dufour et al. (2006). Learning by Doing: A Handbook
for Professional Learning Communities at Work.
Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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Making Change Game, The NETWORK Inc.
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Patterson, J. & Patterson, J. (2009, October). Staying
Positive in Negative Times. ASCS, 67(2).
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Reeves, D. (2009). Leading Change in Your School:
How to conquer Myths, Build commitment, and Get
Results. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development.