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If I Want To Start Making Change In My School, How Do I Get Others On Board? 

Truly effective change involves people from all across a system. Diverse backgrounds and experiences provide diverse perspectives toward solving a problem. It is especially crucial to involve the stakeholders whose experiences you are trying to improve. For example, if you want to design a new professional development system for teachers, consider how you might include teachers in the design process.

This playlist will give you a glimpse of why it’s important to engage with a diversity of perspectives and ways to handle challenges that may arise.

As you watch these videos, consider the following questions. We encourage you to share your answers or other thoughts inspired by these videos using #TSLMOOCPlaylist.

  • In your school or school system, do leaders take in ideas from the school community?
  • What kind of stakeholders play a role in developing new ideas for your school community?
  • How does your school community engage those stakeholders?

The Dance of Leadership

Launching Innovation in Schools

In this video, Justin Reich (Director of MIT Teaching Systems Lab and Assistant Professor of MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing) describes change leadership as a combination of understanding your community’s ideas and values and directing people toward a cohesive direction.

Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School: Cohesive Around STEM

Launching Innovation in Schools

The Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School is a K-6 STEM school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In this video, educators at the Banneker explain how they established a shared vision for the school around STEM by engaging voices from administrators, teachers, and the community.

Shared Vision

Launching Innovation in Schools

A leader’s development and refinement of a vision should stem from and evolve with input from others in the community. In this video, Peter Senge (Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management) explores how to know if your vision is actually shared.

Shrewsbury Public Schools: Engaging Multiple Perspectives

Envisioning the Graduate of the Future

A leader’s development and refinement of a vision should stem from and evolve with input from others in the community. In this video, Peter Senge (Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management) explores how to know if your vision is actually shared.

Alignment

Launching Innovation in Schools

When trying to engage a variety of perspectives, it’s likely that team members will disagree. In this video, Peter Senge (Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management) discusses how effective teams don’t have to agree, but they should be aligned, a quality that Peter defines as working together in the same direction in service of the larger goals.

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