Managing and Implementing Change Leadership, learning, and successful implementation of the College and Career-Ready Standards

The Armful By: Robert Frost For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns— Extremes too hard to comprehend at once, Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with, I will do my best To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road. And try to stack them in a better load.

Managing Change Activity

Discuss Changes Occurring in Your School/District Discuss with an elbow buddy some of the changes currently happening in your school or district. Share out some answers to the entire group.

Thinking about your school, district, or the opening activity, discuss how people respond differently to change Remember: Change is a process! Response to Change

Three Phases of the Change Process

Begin with the End in Mind Everyone reads institutionalization on page 20 Partner A then reads implementation pages 20 to 21 Partner B reads initiation on page 21 Partners discuss the phases of change

Create a Consensus Gram

Implementation Dip

Successful change requires two forces: pressure and support. The New Meaning of Educational Change Michael Fullan pressure: purposefulness, intentionality, and clarity support: assistance or help

Table Talk Activity Successful change requires two forces, pressure and support. PressureSupport Definition: assistance or helpDefinition: purposefulness, intentionality, and clarity Example: Identifying specific results Example: Providing adequate resources

8 Stages of Change John Kotter, Leading Change 1) Increase urgency 3) Get the vision right 2) Build guiding teams Creating a climate for change 6) Create short-term wins 5) Enable action 4) Communicate for buy-in Engaging & enabling the organization 8) Make it stick 7) Don’t let up Implementing & sustaining the change

The Tipping Point Period of Rapid Adoption Tipping Point

Derek Sivers How to Start a Movement The Tipping Point: An Example

Innovators Venturesome types that enjoy being on the cutting edge Excited by possible benefits Enjoy imagining the possibilities Eager to give a new initiative a try INNOVATORS 2.5%

Early Adopters Use the data from the innovators’ efforts at implementation Make their own decisions to adopt a new change Trusted by the staff for making well informed decisions Are the opinion leaders at the school Translators Early Adopters 13.5%

Early and Late Majority Will follow of the early adopters Will implement the CCRS standards at varying rates Are needed to make CCRS, TPE or PARRC permanent Create the sense the “this is how we do business at our school” Establish the culture of the school Early Majority 34% Late Majority 34%

Laggards/Resisters Can be very traditional Isolated Suspicious of change Interact with others who are traditional Laggards/Resisters 16%

Who are the adopter types in my school? Innovators Early Adopters Resisters (Laggards) MajorityMajority

Given your role in your school and what you learned and what do you plan to use from this session? Given your role in your school, what have What have you learned about change and what do you plan to use from this session?