Title: Rural Technology Leadership Academy
1Rural Technology Leadership Academy
- Sponsored by the
- TARGET grant
- Jerrie Smith Jackson, Ph.D.
- Scott Walker, Sc.EdD.
2Before everything else, getting ready is the
secret to success.
Henry Ford
3Overview of Training
- Organizational change and adoption of change
- Building trusting relationships
- Professional development context factors
- Aligning TEKS and developing quality assessment
tools - Designing your role to support the needs in
meeting the campus technology plan objectives
4Welcome to ACCESS!
- The human side of change every technology, every
process depends on people
5The human side of change
- Awareness and use of innate attributes to perform
at highest levels of effectiveness - Individual growth before organizational change
- Mediate resistance, generate enrollment
commitment, and compress time frames
6ACCESS! Circle Rules
- Listen to the person speaking
- Respect all comments
- Share the time equally
- Allow everyone a turn to speak
- Speak or pass the choice is yours
7ACCESS! Circle Procedure
- Make sure ground rules are understood by all
members - Introduce the topic or state the objective
- Elaborate if topic needs clarification
- Allow time for members to share their thoughts
- Discuss and summarize conclusions and insights
8Something that makes me especially happy
- Discussion Question
- What did you feel or experience as you shared
or listened to others share?
9I never had any failures just learning
experiences.
Thomas Edison
10Objective Mindworks
- Make connections with our experiences and new
information - Understand how we respond to dynamic situations,
shifting roles and responsibilities
11What are the ten most important learnings in life?
- A - If learned alone
- C If learned in curriculum/school
- O If learned with others
- S If self motivated
12Governing Principle
- The mind is what the brain does mental
information processing takes place largely
outside of conscious awareness, with only the end
products reaching consciousness.
13Significant Points
- The mind is what the brain does
- The brain/mind complex is a powerful tool that
influences every part of our lives - Application of Mindworks permits full use of our
mental potential, total access to our personal
resources and self-management
14A Time I Achieved Something of Significance..
- Discussion Question What role did your thoughts
and vision of this accomplishment play in its
achievement?
15Begin with the end in mind.
Stephen Covey
16Objective Images of Achievement
- To identify how the planning stage of the change
process improves personal effectiveness
17Governing Principle
- Everything is created twice, first mentally, then
physically. The key to creativity is to begin
with the end in mind with a vision and a
blueprint of the desired result.
18Significant Points
- All successful endeavors must begin with a
corresponding mental image - Clear and vivid mental images have inherent
magnet-like power necessary for change or
improvement - When the power of a mental image is activated, we
are pulled toward successful achievement of our
endeavors
19One of my special possession
- Discussion Question
- How do our minds figure in determining the
value of something to us?
20We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
21Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and
try to be that perfectly.
22Objectives Change
- To understand the process of change and why we
resist change - To be able to systematically plan for change
23Who are the only people who like change?
Babies in wet diapers
24It is important to recognize
- change is a process that is accomplished by
individuals and involves developmental groups and
is highly personal. The focus should therefore
be on individuals, the innovation, and the
context of environment.
25Effective change requires systemic planning
- Using group resources
- Identifying the problem
- Goal and objective setting
- Problem solving
- Identifying alternatives
- Selecting alternatives
- Developing a program
- Follow up and evaluation
26Notes about Change
- Change is a reality.
- It is our nature to resist change.
- People go to great lengths to avoid or resist it.
27Resistance to Change
- Dynamic conservatism -- the tendency of an
organization to fight to remain the same - Donald Schon
- For every force there is an equal force in the
opposite direction - Newtons Third Law of Motion
28Social System of Change
- Ring structure
- Periphery of the ring are those elements whose
change requires the least disruption of the
system as a whole - Center of the ring means reconstructing
the entire system - Abraham Maslow
29Concerns Based Adoption Model
- Awareness (I'm not concerned about that.)
- Informational (I would like to know more.)
- Personal (How will this affect me?)
- Management (I am spending all my time getting
ready and doing this.) - Consequence (How is my use affecting children?)
- Collaboration (How do I relate what I am doing to
what others are doing?) and - Refocusing (I have some ideas about this that
might work better).
Hord, Rutherford, Huling-Austin and Hall
30A Belief Ive Had to Change
- Discussion Question
- How do our beliefs affect our perception of
people and events around us? Our reactions?
31In spite of everything, I still believe that
people are really good at heart.
32Objectives Belief Systems
- To become aware of our beliefs
- To understand how beliefs shape behavior so we
can respond to situations and people
33What role do beliefs play in our choices about
the things we do and dont do?
- Belief systems are the root of all resistance to
change and produce almost every conflict. For
organizational success, we must mediate conflict
and generate cooperation.
34Governing Principle
- To change behavior effectively, we must
concentrate not on external things such as
information, gadgets and methods, but rather on
altering the belief systems and paradigms of the
people who make decisions and do the work.
35Significant Points
- Beliefs govern all of our behavior
- Belief Systems can be the greatest barrier or the
most significant contributor to successful change - Understanding and modifying beliefs are vital to
creating change - The limits of our successes are defined by the
quality of our thoughts
36What we believe about anything will determine our
attitude toward it, create our feelings, direct
our actions and, in each instance, help us to do
well or poorly, succeed or fail.
37Your belief system explains what your limits are
not what the limits are. Belief systems limit
experience. Impossible things are things you
dont believe in.
38Objectives Comfort Zones
- To understand that how we act and behave is
determined by our comfort zones that match our
picture of who we are
39Governing Principle
- We all have self-regulating mechanisms called
comfort zones that correspond with the current
picture or image we hold of ourselves - How we act, behave, or perform is determined by
the comfort zone that matches the picture or
image we have of ourselves
40About Comfort Zones
- Our comfort zone is defined by our beliefs and
determines our flexibility and adaptability. - At the edge of our comfort zone, we experience
distress and resist change in an attempt to
return to the harmony of our comfort zone. - Understanding our comfort zones opens up
creativity and influences individual and group
performance.
41Significant Points
- Comfort zones relate to all aspects of our lives
and exist at all levels in an organization - Comfort zones are determined by our beliefs and
regulate our behavior - Recognizing and managing personal and group
comfort zones is vital to successful change and
key to personal and group effectiveness
42Something thats Causing Me Stress.
- What kind of feelings do we have when we are
experiencing or thinking about one of our
stressors?
43We didnt all come over in the same ship, but we
are all in the same boat.
44Objectives Human Traits
- To understand each others behavior
- To cooperate and work together
- To enhance communication
45What value is there to understanding human traits?
- To develop deep personal understanding of our own
Human Traits and those of others
46Governing Principle
- Whatever an organization is about, the active
force is the people and people have their own
will, their own mind, their own way of thinking
and their own way of behaving. - People are different in fundamental ways they
believe differently, they think, conceptualize,
perceive and comprehend differently.
47Human Traits
- We are all unique and diverse
- There is value and opportunity in diversity
- Managing diversity is a key to leadership,
change, and to personal as well as group
effectiveness
48Ways we are different
49Ways we are the same
50Differences Inflexibility, Intolerance and the
Need to be Right ALWAYS EQUALS CONFLICT
51Once you say youre going to settle for second,
thats what happens to you in life, I find.
52Governing Principle
- Your success or failure in anything, large or
small, will depend on your programming what you
accept from others and what you say when you talk
to yourself. The brain simply believes what you
tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it
will create.
53Reticular Activating System
- RAS serves as a sophisticated clipboard -- helps
us to prioritize and find things - RAS acts as a filter -- when we put up our
antennae, we pay more attention to something
54Reticular Facilitation
- In order to act rather than react in our
experience of change, we must manage (rather than
be managed by) the reticular. - Reticular Facilitation allows us to harness
creativity, secure adequate resources, and focus
them on our individual and collective pursuits.
55The human brain will do anything possible you
tell it to do if you tell it often enough and
strongly enough.
56Inner Communications
- We constantly communicate with ourselves.
- Inner communication can be a negative or positive
force in our personal and group pursuits - Managing and directing our Inner Communications
is essential for personal and group effectiveness
57A Success I Experienced Recently
- How does ones success affect your willingness to
try something new?
58Killer Phrases
59By Just Paying Attention
- Write down some of the affirming statements you
hear between now and our next session
- Write down some of the killer phrases you hear
between now and our next session
60A Positive Way I Acknowledge Myself
- Discussion Question
- What effect does self-acknowledgement have on
us over time?
61Give Schools an Even Chance
- Everything is created twice first mentally, then
physically. The key to creativity is to begin
with the end in mind.
62Something I Want to Achieve to Improve My
School/District..
- If we can imagine a change in detail, why is it
so tough to get it done?
63Where we are Headed
- Activate the Reticular
- Create Mental Picture (Image of Achievement)
- Assimilate the Image
- Enrollment benefit and contribution
64What We Want or Need
65An Image of Achievement is
- Positive
- Present
- Personal
- Precise
- Possible
The Five Ps
66Our Image of Achievementfor _____ School
67The future is not a gift it is an achievement.
68Governing Principle
- Meaningful and lasting change begins with
personal and group enrollment - Enrollment is a matter of choice resulting from
seeing ourselves in the vision as contributing to
and benefiting from its achievement
69Whats in it for me?
WIIFM?
70Compliance vs. Enrollment
71Access Circle
- What can your campus and district do to
increase the desire of its faculty and
administration to really enroll or participate in
its undertakings?
72Vision without action is merely a dream. Vision
with action can change the world.
Unknown
73Commitment
- Commitment follows enrollment and requires
meaningful and purposeful involvement - Commitment is the driving force behind change
- Commitment opens the door to Creative Breakthrough
74Creative Breakthrough
- Creative Breakthrough is generated when we
internalize the contrast between what is and what
ought to be - Creative Breakthrough produces the highest and
best expressions of individual and group
creativity and permits realization of our
creative potential - Creative Breakthrough coupled with Commitment can
produce escape velocity
75Escape Velocity
- 25,000 mph to escape the gravity of the earth
76Whatever we are doing it depends on people.
Restructure
Reform
People
Renew
77Elements of Thinking and Learning
Focus of traditional classroom and current testing
Interest
Explicit
Relevance
Data Information Process proficiency
Excitement
Implicit
Enthusiasm
Seen as difficult to assess
Importance
Application
Required for Thinking and Reasoning
78How I will feel when we succeed
- What similarities and differences did you
notice in the feelings we imagined?