As the nation emerges from the ravages of the pandemic and school closures, changes in instruction, engagement, schedules, curriculum, and assessment will be essential. Schools that cling to the old model of change will be still attempting to make change happen five years from now. It is, therefore, time for a change in change leadership. The change model that educational leaders have used to create and implement change for the past fifty years is irretrievably broken. More than 70% of change efforts fail, and fewer than 10% are implemented as planned. In this interactive learning experience, participants will:
Evaluate and analyze existing change models
Synthesize the latest and best research on change
Apply the new research on change to current challenges at the school and district levels
With his usual mix of hard-hitting evidence and gentle humor, Dr. Douglas Reeves and his colleagues at Creative Leadership Solutions will help leaders at every level, from the classroom to the boardroom, leave with a new model of change. Deep Change requires a reconsideration of some of our fundamental beliefs about change, focusing on evidence of impact rather than the transient buy-in so often attempted in the early stages of change.
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