Thinking Outside the Box for Family Engagement

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Thinking Outside the Box for Family Engagement
Session 35

• Kenley Wade, Illinois PBIS Network Statewide
  Leadership Team
• Dan Koonce, Technical Assistance Coordinator,
  Illinois PBIS Network
• Joane Scholefield, Family Support Facilitator,
  Illinois PBIS Network

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Learning Objectives

• Define the process of change
• Develop an understanding of the challenges that
  are an inherent part of the change process
• Identify strategies that embrace change and how
  they are used them to accomplish system goals  
• Develop an understanding of how the process of
  change relates to developing family
  partnerships   
• Develop an understanding of how PBIS relates to
  developing family partnerships

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Values Exercise
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Stages of Systemic Change

• Maintenance of the Old System
• Awareness
• Exploration
• Transition
• Emergence of New Infrastructure
• Predominance of the New System
• Beverly L. Anderson,
  The Stages of Systemic Change

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Technical and Adaptive Challenges

• Technical Challenge
• Task oriented rather than "process oriented
• Targeted rather than solutions focused
• Problem is very clear
• Solution and implementation of the problem is
  clear
• Primary locus of responsibility for organizing
  the work is the leader
• Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, Leadership on the
  Line and Leadership
• Academy Faculty, Georgetown University

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Technical and Adaptive Challenges

• Adaptive Challenge
• Frequently includes changes in values, practices,
  and relationships
• Requires collective sense of responsibility
• Requires learning new ways, developing new
  competencies, and working collectively
• Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, Leadership on the
  Line and Leadership
• Academy Faculty, Georgetown University

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Family Partnerships/PBIS
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Contact Information

• Kenley Wade krwadesr_at_aol.com
• Dan Koonce ecnook_d_at_comcast.net
• Joane Scholefield joanescholefield_at_sbcglobal.
  net