Leadership Agin'

• Fullan Clip


• Discussion Groups


• Whole Class Discussion


• Change Solutions


• Next Week and the following


• Other?
  


• Fullan article about change - adaptive, not easy, no simple answers and conflict necessary to force change.
  


• Change is a living thing - compares to a living organism. Dynamic, constant state of change. (Last week Sheingold talked about same thing - tension between things).



• No cookbooks, no silver bullets. There is no single way that will work for all, or sometimes any other, situation. A system needs to be tweaked and adapted for a new situation or place.



• Knowledge, creation, explicit knowledge (hard data, facts, numbers) and tacit knowledge (knowledge about personalities in and of the classroom, who will want to answer each question, who will use the hall pass a bazillion times).



• Formal planning, restricts creative abilities, they don't buy into it, don't take ownership.



• Middle Managers - they are interpreters - take things from the top and translate for those below (mediators) and take comments from below and bring it up to the higher up.



• 8 Change Lessons

Combustion Statement - a complaint - take care of it before it explodes. Key to diffusing combustion statement is knowing your customers.

Assignment - post two original comments, each on a different section.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wherewestand/about/message-from-ron-thorpe-vice-president-and-director-of-the-educational-resources-center-at-thirteenwnet/152/

Due by, midnight September 24th.

September 29th, discuss leadership article. Class 4:30 - 5:30 on the web, class website, wimba classroom from her class site.