17 episodes
Shifting for Impact Kirsten Richert, Jeff Ikler and Margaret Zacchei
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- Education
Educators have long wrestled with how to manage productive change in their schools. Besieged by well-intentioned voices suggesting they take “this” or “that” course of action to improve student performance, school leaders and their teams have often found themselves heading down one road only to exit onto another.
As a result, the intended changes don’t stick, and their desired outcomes remain out of reach. In these episodes, we’ll hear from educators who successfully navigated change and from those who support educators in that quest.
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What Future Do We Envision for our Children?
Listen to more of the interview we conducted with Mary Howard where she distinguishes between change initiatives and a culture of change. Listen especially for what she means by a collectively embraced “passion-fueled mindset,” and the difference between initiatives that are merely an act of “doing” instead of “becoming.”
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Listen for Brilliance
Listen to part of an interview we conducted with Steve Paul where he outlines the goals, steps and benefits of a “Performance Acceleration Meeting.” Listen for why he puts a heavy emphasis on behaviors that affect the “Healthy”-side of his business.
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Stay Curious a Little Bit Longer
Listen to our interview with Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit (2016) and founder of Box of Crayons, an organization that promotes coaching as the essential leadership behavior. Listen as Michael recounts the five layers of resistance to coaching – and how he counters them.
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innovating Inside the Box
Listen to our two-part interview with Amnon Levav, Chief Innovation Officer of SIT - Systematic Inventive Thinking, where he reviews the firm’s “Function Follows Form” innovation process. Listen for why innovating with constraints and manipulating what you already have yields better results than trying to innovate out of thin air.
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Cultivating Change at the Grassroots Level
Listen to part of our interview with Evan Robb where he described how he set the stage for another change initiative - revising the school’s grading procedures. Listen for the strategies he used to increase engagement and get people ready to embrace and implement the change.
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Keeping the Wheel of Change Turning
One who didn’t stop applying at least one of the principles from Good to Great and the Social Sectors (2005) is Deb Gustafson, former Principal of Ware Elementary School in Fort Riley, Kansas. Listen as she describes how she applied the Flywheel principle and achieved dramatic results. Pay particular attention to what she determined had to be the all important first step of the school’s flywheel.