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Taking Implementation Further: Technical vs. Adaptive Change

Session 1, August 2014 NTI

Our Beliefs about Adult Learning

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Learning Targets

• I can describe the differences between technical and adaptive change.

• I can analyze my school’s position on the change continuum.

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Select

• Select one of the quotes from the “Perils of Adaptive Change” from the envelope on the table.

• Read your quote to yourself.

• Make a connection to your work in a school, district, or in the field of education more generally.

• Share your connection.

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Mix and Mingle

• Stand and mingle amongst those near you, sharing your quote and connection.

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New Learning?

Technical Change Adaptive Change

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Norms for Collaboration

• Review the Norms for Collaboration on page 7 of your Participant’s Notebooks.

• Please rate yourself on the Norms Inventory based on how you just interacted in the Mix and Mingle activity and while sharing your new learning.

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World Café Protocol

• Each group of 5 selects a recorder, who takes notes and STAYS BEHIND when others rotate. In addition, select a facilitator and timekeeper. (1 minute)

• Locate the pile of case studies on your table on colored paper (green, blue, or yellow)

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World Café cont.

• The recorder sets up a piece of chart paper as follows: Case Study Number 1, 2 or 3 at top.

• Read the case study independently and think about the questions at the end. (5 minutes)

• On your chart paper, as a group, collect your thinking: What are the issues? What to do next? Use only the top half of the chart paper. (7 minutes)

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World Café cont.

• Transition The recorder stays behind.

• The rest of the group transitions to another table with the other color case study at it.

• You do not need to stay together as a group.

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World Café cont.

• Greet your new group (2 minutes)

• Read your new case study independently (5 minutes)

• The leader (the person who stayed behind) reviews what the last group said about the issues and resolutions. (3 minutes).

• Now brainstorm – stretching beyond the ideas of the first group (5 minutes).

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World Café cont.

• Review all of the recommendations on the chart (including the recommendations made by the group before).

• Select one you feel would be most powerful. That gets circled or starred. (2 minutes)

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Synthesis

• Locate “Stages of Implementation of the 3-8 ELA Curriculum” continuum in your Participant’s Notebook on page 22.

Review this continuum, thinking about your school. Share with a shoulder partner where your school is on this

continuum, including any insights your gleaned from the Implementation Case Studies.

• Locate the notecatcher “Synthesis for Teams” in your Participant’s Notebook on pages 30-32.

Capture your thinking in the column that’s most relevant to you.

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