How Will I Be An Agent of Change?

By The Ducks“Be like a duck, calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens

underneath.”

Leading Change

• We need to lead everyone in the same direction

Leading Change

• Involve all stakeholders and have various leaders take over as the lead duck in the “Flying V”

Modeling

• As leaders we need to model change

Leaders Modeling Change

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.” John Wooden

Create Demand- Make the case for change

• Building relationships with students from where they are

• Relevance of students’ current and future reality

Imagine a world with no change

Education Shift

More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years.

According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley . . .

the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

using technologies that haven’t yetbeen invented . . .

in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

Monitor

“I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?” Yogi Berra

Evaluate/Assess

“To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.”

~Winston Churchill

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Adapt

“Insanity is doing the same thing you have always done

and expecting different results.”

~ Albert Einstein

Ducks Fly Together

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“Why doesn’t somebody do something? Then I realized I am somebody.”

I used to ask,