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AP 720 =Leading Change=

=//You Must Be the Change You Wish to See in the World// - Mahatma Gandhi= media type="youtube" key="nGyutkBvN2s" height="408" width="546"

What kind of changes do you wish to see in the world?
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Is change hard? Why or why not?
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=Leading Change - Change to Lead: Building a School Culture that Inspire Lifelong Learning= Why Change (Urgency, Brutal Facts)? 1) State and Federal Mandates - competition, ranking, merit system/incentive pay - do not release intrinsic motivation 2) 21st Century Skills, Flat World 3) Teacher Unions - protectionism, hindering factors for change 4) Our education systems today are in urgent need to cultivate and retain a greater number of people who are constantly making “attempt to grow, who are driven by a sense of doing what is right for themselves, their families, and their organizations. These people encourage others to leap into the future, help them overcome natural fears, and expand the leadership capacity in their organizations.” (Kotter, p.186) 5) Just as I believe that every child can learn to speak, to read, and to write, I believe that each and every one of us can develop into people we inspire to be. We need to set the stages and provide people the opportunity to learn and to grow. "We must preserve the power of intrinsic motivation, dignity, cooperation, curiosity, joy in learning, that people are born with." - (W. Edwards Deming, 1994, p.121)

Who: First - A Guiding Coalition Eventually - Every Stakeholder

What (from Hedgehog Concept to a Vision):
 * === I am passionate about learning ===
 * === I can be the best in the world at igniting the desire in others to learn ===
 * === My best economic engine is the belief that our community is full of people who are able to lead change ===

The Vision Statement:
// To create a thoughtful, cooperative, and compassionate learning community where generations of people work together to ensure the most inspiring working and learning environment for everyone. //

How: Develop Habits of Mind

Why Habits of Mind?

Getting use to change is a habit that requires practices, lots of practices, the 10,000 hours rule.
==== “//Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” - Aristotle// ====

**What kind of habits do we want our students to have? What kind of habits do we need to become a lifelong learner and change agents?**
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What's the Change Process?

I have embedded Kotter’s Eight Steps and Collins’ Good to Great theories in deciding the goals and strategies in this plan.
====Develop and implement a cohesive elementary school climate where the vision, mission, and core values permeate all levels (Generating Guiding Coalition; Communicating the Change Vision) ====

- Ensure that the transition from the current social developmental curriculum will happen smoothly
Ensure that the school culture is one that celebrates its vision, mission, and core values. (Generating Guiding Coalition; Empowering Broad-Based Action, Generating Short-Term Wins, Flywheel Effect)

- Ensure that the Habits become the soul of the school culture with ongoing short-term success
Ensure that the community understands and supports the vision and mission of the school. (Communicating the Change Vision, Empowering Broad-Based Actions)

-Ensure that school vision and mission are visible to all.
Integrate core content knowledge with Habits of Mind to ensure students exceed state and federal learning standards. (Generating Short-Term Wins, Flywheel Effects, Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change) “ A teacher’s metacognitive processes may be the most important component in his or her professional portfolio of skills and awareness."

-Apply essential questions, enduring understandings and performance assessments for each math unit. Integrate Habits of Mind into Math curriculum.
Integrate Habits of Mind in all subjects of study to ensure healthy development of the Whole Child (Generating Short-Term Wins, Flywheel Effects, Consolidating Gains and Producing more Change, Anchoring new Approaches in the Culture)

-Apply essential questions, enduring understandings and performance assessments for each Mandarin Chinese unit. Integrate Habits of Mind into Mandarin Chinese Units.
==== -Explore the possibility of developing the Science, Engineering, and Technology Units in correlation to the Math essential questions, enduring understandings and performance assessments. Integrate Habits of Mind into the STEM curriculum. ====

Ensure that teachers and staff have ample opportunities to develop and to practice Habits of Mind to promote academic success in every child. (Generating Short-Term Wins, Flywheel Effects, Technology Accelerators, Consolidating Gains and Producing more Change, Anchoring new Approaches in the Culture)

-Develop a framework for continuous professional development in Habits of Mind
Ensure that the school takes pride in being the best place for educators to work in. (Generating Short-Term Wins, Flywheel Effects, Consolidating Gains and Producing more Change, Anchoring new Approaches in the Culture)

-Encourage everyone to connect Habits of Mind to other areas of personal enhancement.
// The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. – Leo Tolstoy //

Establish community partnerships to enhance meaningful learning opportunities to every teacher, staff, and student. (Generating Short-Term Wins, Flywheel Effects, Consolidating Gains and Producing more Change, Anchoring new Approaches in the Culture)

-Connect with other schools in and/or outside of the district to build bigger learning community
=What's the intended outcome?=

1. Reduce Complacency to Zero;

4. Ensure each student meet or exceed learning expectations as set forth by the state and federal government while instilling the love of lifelong learning in all students;
====5. Build a self-sustainable and interdependent school culture that involve all stakeholders, and applies the cycle of the Eight Stages Change Process and the theories from Good to Great to its best practice.====

“Culture is not something that you manipulate easily. Attempts to grab it and twist it into a new shape never work because you can’t grab it. Culture changes only after you have successfully altered people’s actions, after the new behavior produces some group benefit for a period of time, and after people see the connection between the new actions and the performance improvement. Thus, culture change comes last in the change stage, not the first.” (Kotter, p.156)

Dr. Mimi Silbert & [|The Delancey Street Foundation]
"We’re considered the country's leading residential self-help organization for substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit bottom. Our average resident has been a hard-core drug addict for sixteen years, abusing alcohol and multiple drugs and has dropped out of school at the 7th grade and has been institutionalized several times. Many have been gang members; most have been trapped in poverty for several generations. Rather than hire experts to help the people with problems, we decided to run Delancey Street with no staff and no funding. Like a large family, our residents must learn to develop their strengths and help each other. It’s an approach to changing lives that is “against all odds”. media type="youtube" key="9DeJUj5eJy8" height="315" width="560" shorter version media type="youtube" key="wCcLK8_oKVg" height="315" width="560"

If you believe you can do, you are already half way to success. media type="youtube" key="_3KZw_AER90" height="405" width="540" References
 * John P. Kotter (1996), //Leading Change//. Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, Massachusetts
 * Jim Collins (2001), //Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t//. Harper Business, New York, New York
 * Jim Collins (2005), //Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great//. Elements Design Group, San Francisco, California
 * Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler (2008), //Influencer: The Power to Change Anything//. McGraw-Hill, New York, New York
 * Daniel H. Pink (2010), //Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us//. Riverhead Books, A Penguin Group, New York New York
 * Costa and Kallick (2009), //Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum: Practical and Creative Strategies for Teachers//. ASCD, Alexandria, Virginia
 * Gray and Streshly (2008), //From Good School to Great Schools: What Their Principals Do Well//. Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, California
 * John M. Bryson (2004), //Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organization, 3ed Edition: A guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement//. John Wiley & Sons, San Francisco, California
 * W. Edwards Deming (1994), //The new Economics for Industry, Government, Education (2nd Edition)//. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * Edutopia Web Page []
 * Habits of Mind Web Page []
 * Connected Principal Web Page []
 * Mimi Silbert and Delancey Street Foundation Web Page []
 * ASCD Web Page []
 * Be the change you want to see in this world – a YouTube video []
 * Think Different – a YouTube video []

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