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This book was jointly created by over 20 onsite and online participants at Educon 2.2, Philadelphia (January 30th, 2010). Please take, read, and share with attribution!

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Page 1: Field Guide For Change Agents

Field Guide for Change Agents

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This Field Guide for Change Agents was developed during a workshop at Educon 2.2 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 30, 2010. As workshop leaders, we were honoured to have participation by educators from around the world, including remote participants who joined us via Elluminate.

The creators have agreed to license their work with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Creative Commons license.You are free to share or adapt the work, on the condition that the author page and photo attributions are included.

Yours in collaboration, Rodd & Ben

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Co-authored on January 30, 2010

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Chapter 1

Admit It:You are a Change Agent

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"With great power comes great responsibility"-Uncle Ben

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“There have been significant advances in recent years. We're moving in the right direction, just

not quite fast enough.”- April Gromnicki

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Invention is a flower,innovation is a weed.

—Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com.

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“Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.” - Unknown

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Mary Beth Hertz & Eric Conti (@mbteach) (@ericconti)

An effective change agent is someone who can't be afraid to change course.

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A person who knows her own mind - how it learns best - is most likely to be able to change her mind

effectively.Gardner (2006)

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Jason(raventech) Ramsden

-noun1. closet pyromaniac2. one who sparks fires in their world

Definition of a Change Agent

mage: 'The Oil Planet' http://www.flickr.com/photos/18583731@N07/2731049453

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It really is okay to be proudof the work that you havehelped to create.

While no passion of yours is100% yours, there is somethingimportant about standing upfor the change that you believeneeds to take place.

There are moments when "we"(students, teachers, admins)are ready to move on to thenext step in our progression.

We have to know when thatis as well.

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Trying not to drown anyone with my waves.Photo Credit: angela7dreams

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Some men see things as they are and say WHY? I dream things that never were and say WHY NOT!

RFK, 1968Photo Credit: wikimedia commons

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You Were Born to Fly, So Quit Being A Chicken - Ben Hazzard

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"Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers"Don't be afraid to be an explorer.

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Change is the unstoppable force. Are you an immovable object?

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Change is good... you go first!

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Chapter 2

Challenges of

Beinga

Change Agent

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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to come out different"

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"It's a good thing we're

perfect."

-Carey Pohanka andDebra Garcia

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Threat of the THWADDIES*!

Kevin Hogan, Tech and Learning

*(That's How We Always Did It)

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NEW

OLD

The problem is neverhow to getNEW innovativethings into your mindbut how to get theOLD ones out. Unknown

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Whatever changes are being considered, sustainable leadership should look to the past for precedents that

can be reinvented and refined, and for evidence of what has succeeded or failed before.

- Hargreaves (2005)Photo Credit:haydnseek

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Sometimes we are on the outside looking in of the conversations we need to be in. Getting "in the room" or "in the circle" matters.Not contributing isn't always an option.

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"When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself."-- Audrey Niffenegger

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Change is like sunshine...

some change because they finally see the light and

some change because they FEEL THE HEAT.

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Helping others embrace change without feeling threatened.

Image by Hannah Beth

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Chapter 3

TheChangeAgent Toolkit

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Foster collaboration between teachers, schools and districts

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Build Bridges

Make Connections between old and new

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Keep sprinkling new ideas around. One is bound to stick.

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If you want to collaborate globally, know your time zones

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“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people…will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”- Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind

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Asking good questions is the best tool in your toolkit. Always.Photo paurian

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Chapter 4

Mentoring Change Agents: FindingMutualSupport

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When you find someone who thinks like you, don't let go!

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Quote from

:Victor Frankl

Photo marfis75

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein Photo Colin Jagoe

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Especially in moral occupations like teaching, the more one takes the risk to express personal purpose,

the more kindred spirits one will find.- Fullan (1993)

Photo henry grey

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Struggle shouldn't be avoided in

support. We should be okay

with asking really hard

questions of one another.

Photo rockfingrz Photography

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Change Agents Found Here