Are+You+Ready?

[[image:http://geraldwitt.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/transmogrifier.gif width="219" height="282" align="right"]]It's Transmogrifying Time!
Are you ready to **Reinvent**, **Redesign**, and **Reshape** the learning experience for your students and teachers?

Don't confuse change style with change competency. People are often labeled as "change agents" or "change adverse". Often, the pro-change forces are seen as champions and the change resistors as the enemies of progress. Creating lasting change requires that members of the rebel alliance and the evil empire participate in discussions and activities that promote common understanding. Savvy leaders will recognize the value that each change personality brings to the conversation and will leverage their input to help balance ideas and make certain that reasonable concerns are addressed. Before embarking on major initiatives, it's a good idea to have an understanding of the readiness level of the affected stakeholders towards the change under consideration.


 * Group Task:** With your table team, use the rubric contained in the Readiness Indicators for Your "Vision to Reality" Change handout to determine the relative level of readiness for each of the ten indicators.


 * Enter your individual table results in this **online table** or use your own spreadsheet or charting software.
 * In addition, please complete this **online collaborative form** to enter your readiness indicators into a summary of the entire group of participants.
 * Note strategies you have used to gauge the "readiness level" of your team for past learning initiatives in the discussion tab.
 * Also note strategies you have used to help "change resistors" overcome their reticence and become active participants in change initiatives in the second discussion thread.


 * Resources mentioned during this session:**
 * The Internet Archive
 * The Law of Accelerating Returns
 * 21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade
 * 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020


 * Change Extras** (that you may wish to do as an additional team activity at some time during the conference)**:**
 * **The Learning Event Generator** (RAG on the iPhone/iPad) - challenge your creativity as you are presented with random "do" and "as" activities.
 * View the **Change One Thing presentation** created for a Plano ISD leadership discussion activity (warning - large download!)