Rural Technology Leadership Academy

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Rural Technology Leadership Academy

• Sponsored by the
• TARGET grant
• Jerrie Smith Jackson, Ph.D.
• Scott Walker, Sc.EdD.

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Before everything else, getting ready is the
secret to success.
Henry Ford
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Overview of Training

• Organizational change and adoption of change
• Building trusting relationships
• Professional development context factors
• Aligning TEKS and developing quality assessment
  tools
• Designing your role to support the needs in
  meeting the campus technology plan objectives

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Welcome to ACCESS!

• The human side of change every technology, every
  process depends on people

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The human side of change

• Awareness and use of innate attributes to perform
  at highest levels of effectiveness
• Individual growth before organizational change
• Mediate resistance, generate enrollment
  commitment, and compress time frames

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ACCESS! Circle Rules

• Listen to the person speaking
• Respect all comments
• Share the time equally
• Allow everyone a turn to speak
• Speak or pass the choice is yours

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ACCESS! Circle Procedure

• Make sure ground rules are understood by all
  members
• Introduce the topic or state the objective
• Elaborate if topic needs clarification
• Allow time for members to share their thoughts
• Discuss and summarize conclusions and insights

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Something that makes me especially happy

• Discussion Question
• What did you feel or experience as you shared
  or listened to others share?

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I never had any failures just learning
experiences.
Thomas Edison
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Objective Mindworks

• Make connections with our experiences and new
  information
• Understand how we respond to dynamic situations,
  shifting roles and responsibilities

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What are the ten most important learnings in life?

• A - If learned alone
• C If learned in curriculum/school
• O If learned with others
• S If self motivated

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Governing Principle

• The mind is what the brain does mental
  information processing takes place largely
  outside of conscious awareness, with only the end
  products reaching consciousness.

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Significant Points

• The mind is what the brain does
• The brain/mind complex is a powerful tool that
  influences every part of our lives
• Application of Mindworks permits full use of our
  mental potential, total access to our personal
  resources and self-management

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A Time I Achieved Something of Significance..

• Discussion Question What role did your thoughts
  and vision of this accomplishment play in its
  achievement?

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Begin with the end in mind.
Stephen Covey
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Objective Images of Achievement

• To identify how the planning stage of the change
  process improves personal effectiveness

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Governing Principle

• Everything is created twice, first mentally, then
  physically. The key to creativity is to begin
  with the end in mind with a vision and a
  blueprint of the desired result.

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Significant Points

• All successful endeavors must begin with a
  corresponding mental image
• Clear and vivid mental images have inherent
  magnet-like power necessary for change or
  improvement
• When the power of a mental image is activated, we
  are pulled toward successful achievement of our
  endeavors

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One of my special possession

• Discussion Question
• How do our minds figure in determining the
  value of something to us?

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and
try to be that perfectly.

• St. Francis de Sales

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Objectives Change

• To understand the process of change and why we
  resist change
• To be able to systematically plan for change

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Who are the only people who like change?
Babies in wet diapers
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It is important to recognize

• change is a process that is accomplished by
  individuals and involves developmental groups and
  is highly personal. The focus should therefore
  be on individuals, the innovation, and the
  context of environment.

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Effective change requires systemic planning

• Using group resources
• Identifying the problem
• Goal and objective setting
• Problem solving
• Identifying alternatives
• Selecting alternatives
• Developing a program
• Follow up and evaluation

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Notes about Change

• Change is a reality.
• It is our nature to resist change.
• People go to great lengths to avoid or resist it.

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Resistance to Change

• Dynamic conservatism -- the tendency of an
  organization to fight to remain the same
• Donald Schon
• For every force there is an equal force in the
  opposite direction
• Newtons Third Law of Motion

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Social System of Change

• Ring structure
• Periphery of the ring are those elements whose
  change requires the least disruption of the
  system as a whole
• Center of the ring means reconstructing
  the entire system
• Abraham Maslow

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Concerns Based Adoption Model

• Awareness (I'm not concerned about that.)
• Informational (I would like to know more.)
• Personal (How will this affect me?)
• Management (I am spending all my time getting
  ready and doing this.)
• Consequence (How is my use affecting children?)
• Collaboration (How do I relate what I am doing to
  what others are doing?) and
• Refocusing (I have some ideas about this that
  might work better).

Hord, Rutherford, Huling-Austin and Hall
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A Belief Ive Had to Change

• Discussion Question
• How do our beliefs affect our perception of
  people and events around us? Our reactions?

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In spite of everything, I still believe that
people are really good at heart.

• Anne Frank

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Objectives Belief Systems

• To become aware of our beliefs
• To understand how beliefs shape behavior so we
  can respond to situations and people

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What role do beliefs play in our choices about
the things we do and dont do?

• Belief systems are the root of all resistance to
  change and produce almost every conflict. For
  organizational success, we must mediate conflict
  and generate cooperation.

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Governing Principle

• To change behavior effectively, we must
  concentrate not on external things such as
  information, gadgets and methods, but rather on
  altering the belief systems and paradigms of the
  people who make decisions and do the work.

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Significant Points

• Beliefs govern all of our behavior
• Belief Systems can be the greatest barrier or the
  most significant contributor to successful change
• Understanding and modifying beliefs are vital to
  creating change
• The limits of our successes are defined by the
  quality of our thoughts

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What we believe about anything will determine our
attitude toward it, create our feelings, direct
our actions and, in each instance, help us to do
well or poorly, succeed or fail.
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Your belief system explains what your limits are
not what the limits are. Belief systems limit
experience. Impossible things are things you
dont believe in.

• James Fadiman

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Objectives Comfort Zones

• To understand that how we act and behave is
  determined by our comfort zones that match our
  picture of who we are

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Governing Principle

• We all have self-regulating mechanisms called
  comfort zones that correspond with the current
  picture or image we hold of ourselves
• How we act, behave, or perform is determined by
  the comfort zone that matches the picture or
  image we have of ourselves

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About Comfort Zones

• Our comfort zone is defined by our beliefs and
  determines our flexibility and adaptability.
• At the edge of our comfort zone, we experience
  distress and resist change in an attempt to
  return to the harmony of our comfort zone.
• Understanding our comfort zones opens up
  creativity and influences individual and group
  performance.

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Significant Points

• Comfort zones relate to all aspects of our lives
  and exist at all levels in an organization
• Comfort zones are determined by our beliefs and
  regulate our behavior
• Recognizing and managing personal and group
  comfort zones is vital to successful change and
  key to personal and group effectiveness

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Something thats Causing Me Stress.

• What kind of feelings do we have when we are
  experiencing or thinking about one of our
  stressors?

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We didnt all come over in the same ship, but we
are all in the same boat.
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Objectives Human Traits

• To understand each others behavior
• To cooperate and work together
• To enhance communication

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What value is there to understanding human traits?

• To develop deep personal understanding of our own
  Human Traits and those of others

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Governing Principle

• Whatever an organization is about, the active
  force is the people and people have their own
  will, their own mind, their own way of thinking
  and their own way of behaving.
• People are different in fundamental ways they
  believe differently, they think, conceptualize,
  perceive and comprehend differently.

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Human Traits

• We are all unique and diverse
• There is value and opportunity in diversity
• Managing diversity is a key to leadership,
  change, and to personal as well as group
  effectiveness

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Ways we are different
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Ways we are the same
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Differences Inflexibility, Intolerance and the
Need to be Right ALWAYS EQUALS CONFLICT
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Once you say youre going to settle for second,
thats what happens to you in life, I find.

• John F. Kennedy

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Governing Principle

• Your success or failure in anything, large or
  small, will depend on your programming what you
  accept from others and what you say when you talk
  to yourself. The brain simply believes what you
  tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it
  will create.

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Reticular Activating System

• RAS serves as a sophisticated clipboard -- helps
  us to prioritize and find things
• RAS acts as a filter -- when we put up our
  antennae, we pay more attention to something

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Reticular Facilitation

• In order to act rather than react in our
  experience of change, we must manage (rather than
  be managed by) the reticular.
• Reticular Facilitation allows us to harness
  creativity, secure adequate resources, and focus
  them on our individual and collective pursuits.

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The human brain will do anything possible you
tell it to do if you tell it often enough and
strongly enough.
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Inner Communications

• We constantly communicate with ourselves.
• Inner communication can be a negative or positive
  force in our personal and group pursuits
• Managing and directing our Inner Communications
  is essential for personal and group effectiveness

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A Success I Experienced Recently

• How does ones success affect your willingness to
  try something new?

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Killer Phrases

• Organizational
• Personal

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By Just Paying Attention

• Write down some of the affirming statements you
  hear between now and our next session

• Write down some of the killer phrases you hear
  between now and our next session

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A Positive Way I Acknowledge Myself

• Discussion Question
• What effect does self-acknowledgement have on
  us over time?

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Give Schools an Even Chance

• Everything is created twice first mentally, then
  physically. The key to creativity is to begin
  with the end in mind.

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Something I Want to Achieve to Improve My
School/District..

• If we can imagine a change in detail, why is it
  so tough to get it done?

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Where we are Headed

• Activate the Reticular
• Create Mental Picture (Image of Achievement)

• Assimilate the Image
• Enrollment benefit and contribution

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What We Want or Need
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An Image of Achievement is

• Positive
• Present
• Personal
• Precise
• Possible

The Five Ps
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Our Image of Achievementfor _____ School
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The future is not a gift it is an achievement.

• Harry Lauder

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Governing Principle

• Meaningful and lasting change begins with
  personal and group enrollment
• Enrollment is a matter of choice resulting from
  seeing ourselves in the vision as contributing to
  and benefiting from its achievement

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Whats in it for me?
WIIFM?
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Compliance vs. Enrollment
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Access Circle

• What can your campus and district do to
  increase the desire of its faculty and
  administration to really enroll or participate in
  its undertakings?

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Vision without action is merely a dream. Vision
with action can change the world.
Unknown
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Commitment

• Commitment follows enrollment and requires
  meaningful and purposeful involvement
• Commitment is the driving force behind change
• Commitment opens the door to Creative Breakthrough

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Creative Breakthrough

• Creative Breakthrough is generated when we
  internalize the contrast between what is and what
  ought to be
• Creative Breakthrough produces the highest and
  best expressions of individual and group
  creativity and permits realization of our
  creative potential
• Creative Breakthrough coupled with Commitment can
  produce escape velocity

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Escape Velocity

• 25,000 mph to escape the gravity of the earth

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Whatever we are doing it depends on people.
Restructure
Reform
People
Renew
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Elements of Thinking and Learning

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

Focus of traditional classroom and current testing
Interest
Explicit
Relevance
Data Information Process proficiency
Excitement
Implicit
Enthusiasm
Seen as difficult to assess
Importance
Application
Required for Thinking and Reasoning
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How I will feel when we succeed

• What similarities and differences did you
  notice in the feelings we imagined?