BEP037 – Pathways to Personalization Part 4 – The Change Agent
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English - October 12, 2018 12:00 - 20 minutes - 17 MB - ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsCourses Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Shawn Rubin, Chief Education Officer, and Cathy Sanford, Director of Research and Development, both from the Highlander Institute, talk about their new book, Pathways to Personalization: A Framework for School Change. This is the fourth of a multi-part series about the book. In this episode, Shawn and Cathy talk about the importance of change agents […]
Shawn Rubin, Chief Education Officer, and Cathy Sanford, Director of Research and Development, both from the Highlander Institute, talk about their new book, Pathways to Personalization: A Framework for School Change.
This is the fourth of a multi-part series about the book. In this episode, Shawn and Cathy talk about the importance of change agents as human capital, and the key for the framework.
01:45 The importance of the lead change agent and why it has been the key to the framework
01:50 Lead change agent as the heart and center of an initiative; who the right person is for the job
03:09 The lead change agent just really has to passionately believe that there needs to be a new vision for teaching and learning within their context.
04:14 A lead agent has to have charisma
05:16 Anybody can be a lead change agent
07:40 Example of a FUSE fellow and a problem they’re trying to solve
08:04 Leveraging playlists when Youtube isn’t accessible in the school
09:01 Symbiotic relationship between school leadership and teacher in solving a problem; then it becomes a much more rapid development in addressing future problems
09:32 FUSE RI program
12:22 Trusting the systems once they’re in place
14:32 Relationship between the lead change agent and the early adopter
Pathways to Personalization: A Framework for School Change
Book Website: http://pathwaystopersonalization.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pathways-Personalization-Framework-School-Change/dp/168253247X
Harvard Education Press: http://hepg.org/hep-home/books/pathways-to-personalization