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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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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. Recognition really helps foster a positive culture for change and innovation.

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The Thrill is Gone: What to Do When Your Course Doesn’t Excite You

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And if it works, motivation suddenly reappears. Start by considering how much to change. It’s hard to summon the energy to change. The amount of change should be reasonable and feasible. Target the changes. But if you’re not terribly motivated, it wise to go with any targeted change that sparks your interest.

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The Thrill is Gone: What to Do When Your Course Doesn’t Excite You

Faculty Focus

And if it works, motivation suddenly reappears. Start by considering how much to change. It’s hard to summon the energy to change. The amount of change should be reasonable and feasible. Target the changes. But if you’re not terribly motivated, it wise to go with any targeted change that sparks your interest.

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Smart Sparrow Raises $4 Million to Help Teachers—Not Tools—Drive Adaptive Learning

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Good learning design also needs to be engaging, motivational and structured in the right way.”. For every university, change management is just as critical a factor as financial investment. Yet Dror Ben-Naim cringes—just a little—every time he hears that comparison. More on Smart Sparrow. We need to get approval from the top.’”.

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

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Transcend’s leaders consider their work “research and development” for schools and districts that are redesigning their models because they apply learning sciences, motivation sciences and implementation sciences to the biggest questions school operators are wrestling with.

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CTU And UMUC Collaborate on Adaptive Learning and Everyone Benefits

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We talked about how to lead change management in education. To us, success in adaptive technology in one institution can help to motivate success in another. We discussed vendors of digital tools and how to work with them effectively, and we compared ways to support faculty as they put new digital tools in place.