Annual Schools Conference

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Annual Schools Conference

• Transforming Schools Transforming Society
• Change Management
• Leading the Change Your School Wants

Someera Butt
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Think of a change, any change

• What key three things would have a significant
  and positive impact on your school improvement
  and pupil progress?
• What is stopping or delaying the school from
  achieving them?

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What Category is Your School in?
STROLLING
Stoll Fink 1996
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What Sort of Change?

• Developmental
• eg curriculum planning
• Transitional
• eg goals stepping stones
• Transformational
• Radical change, cultural physical changes,
  school looks nothing like it was before

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Rules of Thumb

• There are no easy solutions.
• Adapt processes to suit change intended.
• Change requires teamwork leadership.
• Work with the culture
• (even when you want to change it).
• Communicate, communicate, communicate!

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The Three Change Components
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Process Eight Steps for Leading Change
(Kotter 1995)
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Or, Five Phases of Change-Adoption

• Exploring
• initial stage
• Gather information
• Generate interest
• Developing
• Build up of interest and commitment
• Emergence of leaders
• Build up of work on initial structures
• Deepening
• Basic structures in place
• Widespread participation
• Focused activity
• Bedding down
• High levels of trust
• Some pay-offs/wins for staff, school and pupils
• Frequent communication
• Sustainable
• Benefits to pupils accumulate
• Capacity of staff and school grows

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Culture Four Types
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Culture The Big Picture
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Culture Team Evolution
Tuckman 1965
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Leadership styles
(OR Guiding / Participating) NORMING
(OR selling) STORMING
(OR Telling) FORMING
PERORMING
(Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership
model)
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People Staff Reaction to Change

• Behaviour types in the face of change
• Innovators
• Early Adopters
• Early Majority
• Late majority
• Resistors

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Rogers 1971
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Vs. Personality Types

• Drivers
• Relaters
• Analysers
• Innovators

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People The Change Curve

Time
Adams, Hayes, Hopson 1974, Kubler-Ross 1975
Helps 2001
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The Emotional Process of Transition
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(Adapted from Managing Change at Work by
Cynthia Scott Dennis Jaffe)
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Maslows Hierarchy of Need
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Herzbergs Motivators
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Action Learning Activity

• Triads
• 5 min each
• 2min speak, 3min questions
• Describe one change really needed to transform
  your school.
• How is the school going to achieve this?

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Post Sessional Follow-up

• Change Info Kit, University of Luton
• http//www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/change-mana
  gement/printable-version.pdf
• Change /transition
• http//www.businessballs.com/personalchangeproces
  s.htm
• Kotter Change Model
• http//www.ncsl.org.uk/media-5dd-ec-extended-scho
  ols.pdf
• Handys Cultures
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/organizational_cultu
  recharles_handy
• Hopkins
• http//www.alistair-smith.co.uk/readings/leading_
  learning/leading3.htm
• Leadership
• http//www.ncsl.org.uk/research_and_development/r
  esearch_activites/randdactivities-distributed-lea
  dership.cfm