eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Learn more at PRP.group About K20 Connect K20 Connect, led by Dr. Kecia Ray, is a women-owned consulting firm specializing in providing strategic communications, change management, and market research services to school districts and education vendors.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2015

What is less understood is the level of thought, planning, and change management required by schools to implement these new models. “There is no doubt that blended learning is a proven solution for transforming the educational experience for students,” said Sari Factor, CEO of Edgenuity.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Schools love that Ignite enables them to immediately shore up students’ foundational reading skills gaps without waiting for the lengthy change management process needed to retrain teachers and switch curriculum.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Our coaches needed to be activated as change management leaders to truly make transformational change across their schools In my search for an answer, I tried everything in my toolkit: after school PD, sending teachers to conferences and even implementing accountability measures.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

The discussion will focus on ensuring AI enhances, rather than diminishes, human potential in education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If close out is the answer, what is the change management plan? As a first step, assess your top 10 most expensive ESSER programs and answer these questions: What is our plan to close out or continue to fund this particular expenditure? What metrics should I be using to determine if this program/ expenditure is worth continuing?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

Although our many presenters hailed from a variety of geographies and contexts, one refrain echoed loudly throughout the Providence Convention Center: implementing blended and personalized learning is about managing change.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The audits lead to consistent testing across schools and reduce duplicative assessments so that educators gain back valuable instructional time.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2025

For many school districts, successful implementation of a student data privacy program may require some form of organizational change, and change management starts at the top. At its core, privacy is not about the machines; its about the people.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2024

But we don’t just implement the software; we provide advisory services around change management to help organizations reach their goals.” Systemwide changes tend to provoke a natural human reaction of resistance. “We implement a forecasting and reporting tool that aggregates data to inform solutions,” says McGrath.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 29, 2018

Sonny Magana, one of my co-authors on the white paper “ Mastering Organizational Change Management to Drive Digital Transformation in Education ,” strongly advocates for the T3 Framework for Innovation, and I agree. EDTECH: How do schools take the leap into the digital transformation pool without drowning?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

So, EdSurge has identified: 19 of those elements—from “edtech selection” and “professional development” to “change management” and “infrastructure,” and a collection of schools and associated profiles that champion each of these elements, all in order to help others create learning experiences that best meet the unique needs of today’s students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2016

I think there’s real hope in the change management model, where the focus is not on ‘fixing,’ but keeping eyes on what’s going on around you. The problem is, however, that when you focus on a single point, every other aspect tends to drop away! Also, there’s the mentality that a problem addressed means that it’s forever solved.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For many, the very real challenges of change management and discovering ways to promote scale with quality dominated 2018. Over the last year, education innovators around the country continued to pursue expanded definitions of student success, personalized approaches, and wholly new models of school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2018

Their newest is the twenty-eight-page ISTE-aligned Change Management eBook. It addresses how to create a sense of urgency, build a coalition, form and communicate your strategic vision, enable action by removing barriers and instituting change, generate short-term wins, and more.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2016

“Just do it” may be an effective slogan for a sporting shoe company, but it is not an effective change management technique to move to blended learning. The move to blended learning has been labelled as “disruptive” by many, such as Clayton Christensen in his book “ Disrupting Class.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mini has become a friendly extension of our team, removing the burden of change management from our teachers and acting as a supportive advisor to our families. As a district-wide initiative, Mini supports principals and teachers at the school level without creating more work for them.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

There are many elements critical to the success of change management initiatives, including those involving blended and personalized learning. That's why we've designed a communications guide for school leaders and districts, with tips, examples and resources.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Startups hoping to gain a foothold may need to be as much in the business of relationship mapping development as in the business of change management and consulting (which many of the tool providers above offer). Others are betting on adoption first outside of traditional systems.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It wasn’t about buy-in but instead helping teachers feel comfortable making changes successfully. Change management is crucial to this process. We gave teachers the opportunity to fail, succeed and learn from mistakes. Michael Calvert Start by knowing what you want to accomplish and why.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Identify and address the change management challenges that come with any reform and attend to them throughout your delivery effort. Develop a plan that will guide your day-to-day work by explicitly defining what you are implementing, how it will reach the field at scale, and how it will achieve the desired impact on your goals.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2017

New tech is supported by new or modified programs and intentional change management plans to create an amplifying effect. But we can’t forget that programs and people are just as important as the tech. We need to think of implementing tech as a design exercise. Culture eats strategy.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The fact that Edsby could wrap around our existing SIS was a big draw; it allowed us to implement change management without any risk to our funding,” said Howitt, who also liked the fact that the platform’s developers previously worked for FirstClass, an email client. “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2017

He knows more about district-level change management than just about anyone in the country, and he has the charisma and panache to explain it in a way that is engrossing for an audience,” Rubin explained. Such activities point out Rubin, could negatively affect their ability to do their job. “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

We agreed that the system was broken and it wasn’t just curriculum we wanted to change, it was our relationships with students. She talked about professional development and change management. I talked about rewriting curriculum and changing the way it was delivered to students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

These policies should be developed with careful consideration of other student learning requirements around core subjects, with attention to change management issues.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2018

Participating in the creation of a new position, leading the change management process, and having an office (even if it was shared) got me really jazzed about my transition. My vision initially focused mostly on developing strategy for change management.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

For every university, change management is just as critical a factor as financial investment. Cost—not just for the product itself, but also for the support staff required to make it effective—is one barrier. Often we hear, ‘Dror, come back in six months. We need to get approval from the top.’”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In education, organizational change management equates to training,” said Schad. That requires getting buy-in from the staff, which then requires much more effort than simply sending them to attend workshops to learn about new tools and devices. “In

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Gaggle Speaks

AUGUST 17, 2017

For schools and districts interested in implementing Office 365, we’ve already released a guide on implementation from a change management and educator perspective. Microsoft continues to expand its offerings for education, specifically with developments for Office 365 and the rollout of Microsoft Teams.

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Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

For schools and districts interested in implementing G Suite for Education, we’ve already released a guide on implementation from a change management and educator perspective. This number has increased from 50 million in 2015, and the growth has not shown symptoms of decline.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Creating teacher buy-in for personalized learning Change management can be a lonely process. Each chart has cheat sheets on how to use each report to target instruction along with what kind of activities their students could do, including online and offline learning activities.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2018

Change is an ongoing exercise, and in schools and districts, every year is marked by shifts. Some of those are major, some minor, but there is little doubt that we are constantly dealing with change. Surprisingly, it’s one area on which we don’t have a good grasp.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Finally, Newman noted that he’s seen institutions frequently overinvest in their analytic engines while simultaneously underinvesting in helping stakeholders actually understand the data, or in the change management processes that must accompany the data to actually make a difference. “AN AN EXPLOSION OF CONNECTIVITY”: Kokoon.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blogs An agile solution to higher ed problem solving A new change management model for UW Oshkosh January 31, 2023 Kimberly Langolf Chief of Staff, Finance and Administration, University Affairs, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Not only did these site visits provide examples of what personalized learning environments could look like at our schools with a 1:1 initiative, but they also gave us tremendous insight into practical implementation of the degree of change we were investigating. In the winter of 2015, the TAC visited our own schools.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2018

When we introduce a new system, like a learning management system, we don't just say, "Hey, five years from now everybody's going to be using that, that's going to be fantastic, let's just roll this out and shove it down their throats."

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