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    WILLIAM ALLAN KRITSONIS was recognized as the Central Washington University Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus for the College of Education and Professional Studies. He was honored by the Texas National Association for Multicultural Education as Professor, Scholar, and Pioneer Publisher for Distinguished Service to Multicultural Research Publishing. The ceremony was held at Texas A&M University-College Station. He was inducted into the prestigious William H. Parker Leadership Academy Hall of Honor. He was an Invited Visiting Lecturer at the Oxford Round Table at Oriel College in the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Dr. Kritsonis was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Teacher College in New York, and Visiting Scholar in the School of Education at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. In May 2015, Dr. Kritsonis participated in the Think Tank on Global Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The think tank focused on how to help students develop intercultural awareness, knowledge of global issues, and multilingualism. He served on a national think tank appointed by the Secretary of Education in 2012-15 for Providence Rhode Island Schools with sessions conducted at Brown University in the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. In 2013, he was a nominee for the Outstanding Texas Educator Award exemplifying the leadership of John Ben Shepperd for public leadership education, ethics, and public service. He is Founder of National FORUM Journals (Since 1982). Professor Kritsonis is the author of numerous articles as well as author or coauthor of several books.

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    WILLIAM ALLAN KRITSONIS was recognized as the Central Washington University Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus for the College of Education and Professional Studies. He was honored by the Texas National Association for Multicultural Education as Professor, Scholar, and Pioneer Publisher for Distinguished Service to Multicultural Research Publishing. The ceremony was held at Texas A&M University-College Station. He was inducted into the prestigious William H. Parker Leadership Academy Hall of Honor. He was an Invited Visiting Lecturer at the Oxford Round Table at Oriel College in the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Dr. Kritsonis was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Teacher College in New York, and Visiting Scholar in the School of Education at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. In May 2015, Dr. Kritsonis participated in the Think Tank on Global Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The think tank focused on how to help students develop intercultural awareness, knowledge of global issues, and multilingualism. He served on a national think tank appointed by the Secretary of Education in 2012-15 for Providence Rhode Island Schools with sessions conducted at Brown University in the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. In 2013, he was a nominee for the Outstanding Texas Educator Award exemplifying the leadership of John Ben Shepperd for public leadership education, ethics, and public service. He is Founder of National FORUM Journals (Since 1982). Professor Kritsonis is the author of numerous articles as well as author or coauthor of several books.

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    Facing the Challenge of Change

    Presented by Todd Stephens in


    Dr. William Allan Kritsonis Doctoral Class

    Dedicated to the
    process of becoming
    the Best District..
    Change Ideas

    Change Forces With a Vengeance


    By Michael Fullan 2003
    Change Ideas Michael Fullan
    Levers to Change

    All levers have their limit


    The educational processes are very
    complex, can one lever produce the
    deep change needed?
    Levers
    Archimedes said, "Give me a lever long
    enough and I can change the world." For
    sustainability, that lever is leadership
    Fullan

    Policy as levers
    Curriculum
    Assessment
    Teacher learning
    Professional learning communities
    External expertise
    Creating New Horizons

    Intellectual journey
    Large scale
    Systemness quality
    Alter the system
    Deep transformation and
    sustainability
    Moral Purpose

    Moral
    Purpose

    Sustained
    Educational
    Improvement

    Trust Knowledg
    e
    Purpose and Passion

    What is the intrinsic motivation for


    teaching? Of 6,000 teachers
    questioned.
    #1 answerAn experience with
    student learning.
    Leaders must help teachers revisit
    their moral purpose.
    Moral Purpose

    Leaders must help teachers revisit


    their moral purpose
    Moral purpose has traditionally
    been individualized.
    Moral purpose will not add up if it is
    left at the individual level.
    Gap Reduction- is a moral
    responsibility of all educators.
    Moral Purpose
    Moral Purpose
    Moral Purpose

    Questions for teachers:


    1. Why did I become a teacher?
    2. What do I stand for as a teacher?
    3. What are the gifts I bring to the
    work?
    4. What do I want my legacy to be?
    5. What can I do to remember my own
    heart?
    Moral Purpose

    Mobilizing the untapped moral


    purpose of the public and of
    educators is one of the greatest
    advances we could make. Fullan
    Purpose and Passion
    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and
    free, in a state of civilization, it expects
    what never was and never will be.
    Thomas Jefferson
    Next in importance to freedom and
    justice is popular education, without
    which neither freedom nor justice can be
    permanently maintained.
    James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
    Purpose and Passion

    It is the mark of an educated mind


    to be able to entertain a thought
    without accepting it. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
    I have never let my schooling
    interfere with my education. Mark
    Twain (1835 - 1910)

    The very spring and root of honesty


    and virtue lie in good education.
    Plutarch, Morals Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD)
    New Horizons
    Moral
    Purpose

    Sustained
    Educational
    Improvement

    Knowledg
    e
    Knowledge
    Elevating the Morale purpose is not to
    down play knowledge.
    Teacher learning to improve ---
    Teacher Collaboration
    Professional Learning Communities build
    confidence and competency.
    High Standards set Nationally
    A body of knowledge about what works and
    why.
    Efficient use of technology to support best
    professional practice
    Incentives and rewards for excellence
    Knowledge

    Becoming the Best


    Ideas as capital
    Knowledge building
    Knowledge sharing
    Convert information to purposeful
    knowledge use.
    relentless focus on what is in the best
    interest of those who use the service.
    Trust
    Moral
    Purpose

    Sustained
    Educational
    Improvement

    Trust Knowledg
    e
    Trust

    Change takes relationships


    Trust
    Relationships are more powerful than
    moral purpose.
    Resonant leaders create emotional
    bonds.
    Develop real teams.
    Provide enabling structure.
    Give expert coaching
    Have purpose beyond self
    Quality relationship and ideas.
    Change the Context
    Change the Context
    Lack of organization and connection
    between teachers learning and students
    learning
    Two kinds of change
    Technical easier changed -literacy
    Adaptive -- systems
    Adaptive
    Cannot be solve from above
    Requires experiments, discoveries, and
    adjustments from all over the organization.
    Change the Context

    Tipping Point
    Broken Window Theory
    Create what you want to change
    Name it as a value
    Create mechanisms that cause it to
    happen.
    Have low tolerance for those who
    dont
    Change the Context

    You cant get there through bottom-


    up strategies.
    Paradox
    centralization/decentralization
    Mandated change has poor record
    Not much of the bottom moves.
    Top matters
    Context

    The future of an organization is


    perpetually constructed in the
    conversational exchanges of its
    members. Ralph Stacy 2001
    Start with moral purpose, key problems and desirable
    direction.
    Create communities of interaction around ideas.
    Ensure quality information infuses interaction.
    Look for and extract promising patterns, build on
    gains.

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