Managing Change
"Next year" is a time of looming change for many schools, and their staffs need tools and strategies for managing this change effectively while recognizing it as a human process.

​Blogs

• 92% of Administrators are Worried About Teachers. Here’s What You Can Do to Help., October 5, 2020
  
• Optimizing Your Learning Management System for Hybrid Learning, July 30, 2020
• Managing Change When There is an Unknown, February 20, 2019
• Don't Let the Unknown Stop You From Acting, February 1, 2019
• Flashback from 1999: Teachers' Technology Fears and Hopes , January 2, 2019
• Disruptive Innovation: The Mirror and the Crystal Ball, September 16, 2014
• A Place of Strength or Place of Fear,  February 7, 2013
• A Letter to Experienced Teachers, July 18, 2012

Resources

• LMS Strategies for Pandemic Learning: Your learning management system (LMS) is your first line of defense during a challenging learning time. Well-planned systems help ameliorate executive functioning weakness or underdeveloped academic maturity during good times, and during the pandemic, these supports are more necessary than ever. This is a nuts-and-bolts sort of list to help streamline students' experience in the LMS. We’ve focused on making this list practical, including only those elements that we feel can be adjusted mid-year.
• LMS Evaluation Checklist: An essential list of LMS features for hybrid learning. ​

Podcasts, Research Papers & Webinars

.Currently none, but stay tuned for some coming soon! Refer to the other resources at the time being.

​Professional Development

​Cohort Courses

• Building Trust With Faculty: Critical Skills for Challenging Times: In this course, academic leaders learn how to better support teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic of racial injustice.
  
  

On-Demand Programs

• Change Cycle™ - Managing Self Through Periods of Change:  School leaders will learn strategies and develop skills to allow them to balance their own response to changing circumstances with their responsibility of leading others. Understanding their own mental, emotional, and behavioral responses to change will assist leaders in managing more effectively and productively in the ever changing independent school landscape.
• ​​Change Cycle™ - Managing Results/Leading Employees Through Change:​ While identifying leadership strengths and style in leading change, participants will learn what is needed based on each stage of a change initiative. The understanding of where employees may be in the Change Cycle™ will result in building trust within the school community while achieving desired outcomes.
• ​Change Cycle™ - Communication Strategies For Leading Change: This point in the Change Cycle focuses on communication and success strategies, which will allow educators to feel confident in being transparent and realistic while leading their school through change. Leaders will learn the right actions to take allowing for all constituents to be heard and be active participants in implementing organizational change.