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Want Transformational Teachers? Here’s Why Change Starts With Coaches

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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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Q&A: Rod Houpe Uses Evidence to Drive Change in Schools

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EDTECH: What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and what should educational technology leaders know about it? For educational technology leaders and our students, faculty and staff, it’s important to prepare for what’s to come, while equipping our students to be tomorrow’s leaders.

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How Higher Ed Institutions Are Strategically Managing Change

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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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How Are Schools Changing? EdSurge Unveils Final Chapter of Yearlong 'State of Edtech' Report

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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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When Is It Okay for Public School Officials to Attend Tech-Funded Events?

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The education technology industry often gets flak for not seeking the perspectives of educators. 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.

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Kiddom Helps Administrators Manage Change

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What Kiddom does that few other education webtools do is provide free educator and administrator guides on topics such as Standards-based Grading , Blended Learning , and lesson planning (click for my reviews of these). Their newest is the twenty-eight-page ISTE-aligned Change Management eBook.

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The Secret to Being a Better Teacher? Find Your Tribe

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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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