This document discusses eight ways to start and sustain conversations around educational change. It begins by defining "the change" as moving from a scarcity to an abundance mindset regarding resources, skills, and learning environments. To initiate change conversations, the document recommends hosting parent tech nights at school, facilitating book studies at home, using social media, and emphasizing that students and teachers know more than administrators. To sustain conversations, it suggests addressing both the rational and emotional aspects of change. This involves focusing on hope, students' self-image, the evolving role of teachers, paving the road by setting clear expectations, generating concrete commitments rather than vague requirements, and understanding human nature.

1. Spreading the Word:
Eight Ways to Start
(and Sustain)
Conversations
Around Change
Will Richardson
Rob Mancabelli
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3. Process for Today’s Conversation

4. What is “The Change”?
Discuss

6. The Current Narrative
About “Change”

7. “Better”

12. “Better”
vs.
“Different”

13. CHANGE

14. Scarcity

15. Scarcity
ABUNDANCE

16. ABUNDANCE OF
Information
Tools
Opinions
Teachers
Data
News
Resources
Media
“Schools”
More...

17. Scarcity vs Abundance
Expert vs. Co-Learner
Content vs. Skills
State Tests vs. Life Tests
Local vs. Global
Orderly Classrooms vs. Messy Classrooms
Individual Learner vs Networked Learner
Time and Place vs. Anywhere, Anytime

18. CHANGE
Initiating
and
Sustaining

19. CHANGE
Initiating Change Conversations

20. <1>
At School

21. <1>
Parent Tech Nights

22. <1>
Parent Tech Nights

23. <2>
At Home

24. <2>
Book Study

25. <2>
Book Study

26. <2>
Book Study

27. <2>
Book Study

28. <2>
Book Study

29. <2>
Book Study

30. <3>
Online

31. <3>
Use Social Media

32. <3>
Use Social Media

33. <3>
Use Social Media

34. <3>
Use Social Media

35. <3>
Use Social Media

36. <4>
(The “You Know More Than We Know”
Part of the Presentation)

37. CHANGE
Sustaining Change Conversations

38. CHANGE

39. CHANGE
10%

40. CHANGE
School Equivalent of
“Change or Die”

41. CHANGE
Four ways to sustain change.

42. <5>
Address the emotional
as well as the rational.

43. <5>
HopeLab

44. <5>

45. <5>
Emotional: Kids’ Self Image

46. <5>
Myth: Change is rational &
success is about motivation

47. <5>
National Council Teachers of English
•Proficiency with the tools of technology
•Building cross-cultural relationships to solve
problems
•Designing and sharing information for global
communities
•Managing, analyzing & synthesizing multiple streams
of simultaneous information
•Creating, critiquing, and evaluating multimedia texts
•Acting ethically with these technologies

48. <5>
Not Technology PD Days

49. <5>
Teacher’s Self-Image

50. <5>
Role of the teacher
in the 21st Century Classroom

51. <6>
Pave the Road

52. <6>

53. <6>
“Saints and Jerks”

54. <6>
21st Century Boot Camp

55. <7>
Generate Concrete
Commitments

56. <7>

57. <7>
“Be a safe driver.”

58. <7>
Requirement is
not a commitment

59. <7>

60. <8>
(The “You Know More Than We Know”
Part of the Presentation)

61. CHANGE
In short...

62. CHANGE
Sustaining change =
Understanding human nature

63. THANKS!
Will Richardson
will@willrichardson.com
@willrich45
Rob Mancabelli
rob@mancabelli.com
@robmancabelli