Change is hard. That being said, we must be willing to do the hard work if we want to change our students lives. I have been learning about leading organizational change and have learned the importance having a clear goal, finding the vital behaviors, deciding how the goal will be measured and who the influencers are. These are all key in leading successful change.
I am working with a group of educators in my district on the innovation plan. Two of them are working on this project with me (that is the reason for the three bitmoji’s in on the infographic). We have narrowed down our innovation plan to a desired result of every student in our district will experience critical and analytical thinking through computational thinking via authentic projects. This goal, plus our vital behaviors, type of measurement and influencers are listed on the infographic below.
As referenced above, the influencers for our goal are the grade-level leaders, team leaders and members of the Digital Learning Team. These individuals hold positions of power on each campus and are natural influencers. Getting these individuals to support our goal is important. However, these influencers are not all we need to get the staff to join us in giving our students this opportunity for authentic learning experiences using critical and analytical thinking through computational thinking.
While reading, Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change I learned about the six sources of influence (Grenny, 2013). While we may be successful by only implementing four sources of influence, we increase the chance of our innovation plan being successful by implementing all six sources.
References:
Grenny, J., Patterson, K., Maxfield, D., McMillan, R., & Switzler, A. (2013). Influencer: The new science of leading change. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Sandra Negro 