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Module 1016

Guiding Your School through Change: Gaining Buy-in through Staff Involvement

Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $225 complete

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What You'll Learn

Like employees at any organization, many teachers and staff members fear, hate or simply resist change. Instead of embracing the opportunities brought about by it, they focus on its negatives. Strong administrators understand this and it helps shape the way they introduce and manage change in their schools and districts. This module is designed to help you lead your school through change — big and small — and gain buy-in and support from some of the toughest resistors: You'll learn the best ways to:

  • Gain cooperation and motivate the "foot draggers"
  • Avoid the 8 most common reasons change fails
  • Overcome the psychological barriers that crush the process of change
  • Use the pain caused by change to your advantage

Highlights

Reducing the Drama and Trauma of Change

  • Why do people resist change? How can you overcome this?
  • Keys to building their trust — even in tough or uncertain times
  • Finding key allies to help you with your change efforts

Increase Productivity through Effective Change Management

  • Strategies for creating a sense of urgency to effect change
  • How to overcome the most common obstacles to change
  • The personalities that will always undermine change

Leading Change: What You Can Do Today

  • How do you increase a resistor's enthusiasm and level of commitment?
  • How can you anticipate and respond to the inevitable emotional responses?
  • Creating short-term wins to get everyone on board for the long haul

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

  • Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
  • Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
  • Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
  • Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
  • Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
  • You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.


Materials & Assessment

Lectures Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Guiding Your School through Change: Gaining Buy-in through Staff Involvement

Tuition: $225
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org