Using Technology to Enhance School ImprovementUsing the Change Toolkit to Update the West Virginia Strategic Plan for Schools

West Virginia Institutes for 21st Century Leadership Spring Session 2008

David M. Quinn, Ph.D.University of Florida

Change Toolkit - Overview The Reinventing Education Change Toolkit, based on

the work of Harvard Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, is a Web site created by IBM to help education professionals be more effective at leading and implementing change.

Created through the collaborative effort of Rosabeth Moss Kanter, IBM's Reinventing Education project, together with Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), and National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP).

This presentation will show participants how to utilize several of the tools in the Toolkit to update their schools’ strategic plan.

Change Toolkit - Components School leaders can use the Change Toolkit to learn about

effective change strategies and to get customized feedback on their own situations and tailored change management advice.

The Change Toolkit also contains more than 30 diagnostic tools to assess organizational readiness and aptitude in change management, as well as real-life vignettes from educators who have been successful at creating substantial, lasting change.

The Change Toolkit provides a forum for online collaboration and discussion to enable teams to work together and share documents, “to do” lists, meeting minutes, and lessons learned.

Change Wheel

Change Masters

Change Fundamentals

School Improvement

Change Toolkit Planning Tools Discussion Meeting Minutes To Do List Glossary

Strategic Plan Components Membership Core Beliefs Mission Data Analysis Goals, Objectives & Benchmarks High Yield Practices & Strategies

Work Plan Technology Plan

Membership Change Masters:

Enlisting Supporters: Getting Buy-In and Building Coalitions▪ Action Tools: Stakeholder Review Worksheet

Developing the Dream: Nurturing the Working Team▪ Diagnostic: How Effective is our Teamwork?▪ Action Tools: Developing Team Muscles▪ Action Tools: Tips for Managing Teams

  Change Fundamentals:

Designing and Planning Change Projects▪ Background: Designing Change Project (Steering Committees)

  Change Wheel:

Champions and Sponsors▪ Background: Champions and Sponsors▪ Diagnostic: Are we Adequately Supplied with Champions and Sponsors?

Core Beliefs / Mission

Change Wheel: Common Themes, Shared Vision▪ Diagnostic: Do We Have Common Themes, Sh

ared Vision?

Data Analysis

School Improvement: Data-Driven Decision Making▪ Diagnostic: Data-Driven Decision Making Diag

nostic▪ Action Tools: Data-Driven Decision Making Fou

ndations Worksheet▪ Action Tools: Managing to Learning Results W

orksheet

Data Analysis: Culture & ConditionsChange Fundamentals:

Changing Organizational Culture & Character▪ Diagnostic: How Helpful is the Organizational

Character of Our School?▪ Action Tools: Changing Organizational Culture:

Basic Principles

Goals, Objectives & BenchmarksChange Wheel:

Measures, Milestones and Feedback▪ Action Tools: Developing and Putting In Place

Measures and Milestones

High Yield Practices & StrategiesSchool Improvement:

Learning Alignment▪ Action Tools: Learning Alignment Action Plan (

Standards)▪ Action Tools: Learning Alignment Action Plan (

Curriculum & Instruction)

Work Plan

School Improvement: Learning Alignment▪ Action Tools: Learning Alignment Action Plan (

Professional Development)

Change Wheel: Measures, Milestones and Feedback▪ Action Tools: Developing and Putting In Place

Measures and Milestones

Other Ideas for the Toolkit Organize your professional learning

communities Launching change initiatives

RTI Technology Integration Grade level, subject or vertical teaming

projects

Writing the Strategic Plan Googledocs

Strategic Planning Social Network Ning