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 * Session 3 – Implementing Change**

Course participants will be able to:
 * Session 3 – Implementing Change**
 * Assess current school organizational values and determine congruency with actual practice.
 * Create mechanisms for cultivating purposeful peer interaction (collaboration)
 * Explain barriers to learning new skills (implementation dip)
 * Understand the process of educational change.


 * Essential Questions:**
 * 1) What does implementing change look like locally in terms of moral purpose, relationship building, understanding the change process, ownership, and coherent alignment?
 * 2) How does the focused purpose become embedded in our daily work?
 * 3) How can we use the change process to develop capacity for growth for everyone?


 * Online Completion Activities - prior to the next session**

__Educational Leadership__  Analyze the following scenario. What conditions changed in terms of moral purpose, relationship building, ownership, coherent alignment, and understanding of the change process? Use the Discussion Tab to share your thoughts.
 * 1. Introduction - Read the following introductory article and complete the Learning Activity. Upload the Learning Activity to Session 3 Upload Page.**
 * 2. Read the following Reeves article (also found in Chapter 10 of the 'Leading Change' book). Use the Discussion Tab above to identify a current 'knowing-doing' gap in your school/district and create a potential short-term win or strategy for closing the gap for this issue.**
 * 3. Read Fullan's article and note the crucial components of the Change Process [**__Conceptions of the Change Process__].

Respond to the analyses of at least 3 others. Use the Discussion Tab .


 * 4. Implementing Change. "If you don't have a strategy conducive to teacher understanding, you can't get to student understanding." (Fullan)**
 * Read Chapter 10, pp. 90-93 on formative assessment for teaching and learning; the implementation dip; and effective implementation strategies.**
 * Choose one of the problem-based scenarios in the text (Chapters 11-13): grading, attendance, literacy, or Integration of the Arts. Choose one issue and identify what leaders did to address it; identify the issue, the 'knowing-doing' gap and what is the best practice to address it. Post your responses using the Discussion Tab above.**


 * 5. Reflection Activity. Using the Self Reflection Journal sheet on Conceptions of the Change Process, upload your responses to the Session 3 Upload page.**
 * 6. Read Part 4 of Reeve's text in preparation for the next session.**