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Making Change Happen

• The Concerns-Based Adoption Model

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What do we know about Change?

• Lots of research on the adoption of innovations,
  know as Diffusion Research - see Everett
  Rodgers
• Rural Sociology, Government programs in the 3rd
  World, Educational innovations, all show the same
  kind of patterns in adoption and adopters
• One educational model is call the Concerns-Based
  Adoption Model

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Assumptions of the Concerns- Based Adoption Model
(CBAM)

• Change is a Process, not an event
• It is made by individuals first then by
  institutions - It is a highly personal
• Change entails developmental growth in feelings
  and skills
• Interventions must be related to the people
  first, and the innovation second
• CBAM connects level of use to stages of concern

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Levels of use - Stages of Concern

• Non-Use - Awareness
• Orientation - Informational
• Preparation - Personal
• Mechanical - Management
• Routine - Consequence
• Refinement - Collaboration
• Integration - Refocusing
• Renewal

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Adopter Types

• Innovator
• Leader
• Early Majority
• Late Majority
• Resistor

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Using CBAM

• Be aware of concerns your faculty will likely
  have
• Design the change to address these concerns in
  advance
• Remember that you dont have to convince
  everybody, and know who you have to convince
• Pay attention to ALL aspects of the change -
  especially the 5 elements of reform

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Five Elements of Institutional Reform

• Exemplary materials and practices
• Support for exemplary materials and practices
• Ongoing mentoring and professional development
• Assessment that is aligned with instruction
• Departmental and institutional support

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Making Change Happen-The Strategic Planning
Institute

• Designed for department teams, including Dean and
  Chair/Head
• 4-5 days of examples on solutions to all of the 5
  elements of reform
• Teams produce a strategic plan for implementation
  in their departments
• If you want this to happen, email Duncan McBride
  and tell him to fund it