Lead4Change
How might leadership be different for large scale school change?
Large scale school change, change that really redefines the way things are done in school, requires careful attention to implementing the right components in a thoughtful way.
The Lead4Change Model tries to make clear the desired outcome, the critical components, and the supporting but necessary components.
Links:
- Lead4Change Model
- Lead4Change's Components Explained
- Slides from Overview of Lead4Change Presentation (PDF)
- MLTI: 10 Years of Learning Preso (PDF) - Lessons from the Maine Learning Technology Inititative are at the root of the Lead4Change Model
- Lead4Change blog posts
The overarching goal within the Lead4Change model is Learning. Why bother implementing anything within schools if it does not help to move the mission forward, to further the learning of young people? Keeping this key desired outcome in the forefront of their minds will help change leaders make the right decisions while working on each of the other components.
There are two Critical Components to the Lead4Change model: Leadership and Teacher Practice. These are the most important components of the school change model and need the most careful attention. All other components of the model are there to help these two be effectively implemented.
Leadership is everything when it comes to school change. The pieces of the Leadership Component need to be evident within the initiative, and include building a common vision, inspiring and building capacity, expectancy, supervision for level of implementation, policies and procedures, a safe environment, and that change is someone’s job. Teacher Practice is the second Critical Component of the Lead4Change model. It’s pieces include engaging teaching, classroom management and planning, and level of implementation.
There are five Supporting But Necessary Components within the Lead4Change model: Funding, Partnerships, Resource Management, Branding and Buzz, and PD for Paradigm Shift. Each of these is important to a well implemented initiative, one that successfully changes how schools work and therefore the amount of learning that takes place there. But it is important to remember that each of these five is in service to the Critical Components.
Blog posts by Component:
- Leadership
- Teacher Practice
- Funding
- Partnerships
- Resource Management
- Branding and Buzz
- PD for Paradigm Shift