Sunday, February 14, 2010
Leadership Class #4
Change is a difficult process, that it why it IS so important to have a plan for change. School districts go through a lot of change and sometimes the change is well thought out and planned and other times it is too fast. Our district changes the curriculum every 7 years. There is a well thought out process for each curriculum so that it doesn't come all at once. There are things, however, that are not thought out and just implemented. Then before you know it, you are asking teachers to change 2 or 3 things a year depending on the new "fad" in education. Then teachers make that change to only change it again two years later. If a district is going to make ANY change, I think it is vital that they have a plan, follow through, and then go back and review to make sure that the change was a positive one, not a negative one.
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Change can be very difficult, plan or no plan. To often it seems that the "plan" has agendas that go beyond the idea of looking out for the student's interests. Often times those agendas are hidden and have their roots in factors such as ego and economics. I wish I felt that there was something productive as teachers we could do express our ideas in a positive way. Perhaps we can become leaders in the implemetation of positive change or perhaps we are only pawns on adminstrations chess boards?
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