1. CHANGE THEORY AND EDUCATION INNOVATION
SESSION I

2. AGENDA Introductions Your Perspectives On Change And Innovation
Introduce My Premise About Change
Course Objectives And Overview
Session One

3. CHANGE
What is change?
What is innovation?
Which comes first?

4. PREMISE Change is the diffusion of innovations
“… essentially a social process in which subjectively perceived information about a new idea is communicated from person to person.” Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations
Starts with “me”
Continues, grows, stalls or dies with “we”
Managing relationships and differences
My focus will be on “process” not “content”

5. COURSE OBJECTIVES Understanding Me And Others Change
Valuing differences
Change
Thinking, Learning and Communicating process
Effect Of Change/Innovations On Me, Others, Groups, Organizations And Systems
Planning For And Developing Change/Innovations
Apply Change Principles To Improve Educational Outcomes For Low Socio-economic Communities

6. COURSE OVERVIEW UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND OTHERS
MY THINKING AND LEARNING IN CHANGE
THINKING
IDENTIFYING AND RESOLVING ISSUES
CHANGE AND RESISTANCE
CHANGE MODELS
ORGANIZATIONAL DIAGNOSIS
ORGANIZATIONAL DIAGNOSIS (Continued)
ORGANIZATION DESIGN & DEBRIEFING PROJECT/WRITING PAPER AS PAIRS/TRIADS/QUADS

7. SESSION ONE OVERVIEW UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND OTHERS
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Identify our preferences among the 8 Jungian Mental Functions available to us
Our preferences, others preferences
Understanding Ourselves
Understanding Others
Valuing differences
Capitalizing on differences
Assignment

9. ASSIGNMENT Here’s what I learned
One - two pages (Include type in title)
My strengths are, give examples
My blind spots/pitfalls are, give examples
What I will do differently and when
to me NLT, Noon, Monday, January 16
Preparation for next class

10. PREPARATION Read Type in Organizations pp. 1 – 8, Nudge pp. 1 – 54
Find Your Type pp. 9 – 25
Decision Making pp
Nudge pp. 1 – 54
Diffusion of Innovations pp. 1 – 38
Critical Thinking, What It Is And Why It Counts