CS 563 10 Educational Change Beliefs About Change

C&S 563 --#10 Educational Change

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

Guidelines for Successful Change Linda Mac. Rae Campbell 1 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

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

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

4 Secure needed resources √ Human and material √ Extensive and on-going staff development √ TIME!

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

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

7 Share the leadership √ Teams √ Effective communication channels

8 Anchor the innovation as quickly as possible to classroom practice √ Supervision and evaluation √ Watch for implementation dip

9 Embed the renewal effort and process into organizational practice √ Philosophy √ Budget √ Policies √ practices

Activity z. 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…”

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