Orders of Change with Dr. Robert Dillon Transformative Principal 083

Bob Dillon Twitter Web Site is the Director of Technology and Innovation for Afton School District. He has been a middle school principal for 15 years in three different places and currently helps many other principals improve their practices.

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1st order change - simple, fixit types of problems, typically exciting that help people feel good about things, but don’t really move the needle in improving a school.
2nd order change - moving from management to leadership. Changes that will last after you are gone. People start to feel like they are part of a special organization. Sometimes it is messy, people don’t know how things will play out.
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Need to focus on what matters in the long term.
1st order change - painting over water stain on a house you just bought.
2nd order change - taking off the drywall and cleaning (or replacing) studs and insulation.
Playing the short and the long game.
Higher-level conversations
Difficulty of dealing with minor problems.
If you are working hard daily, people will be more likely to give you a break.
Build up key communicators in the building.
Trust your teachers to say things in a way that you know will be beneficial.
People need to hear the same in multiple ways.
How to help teachers be comfortable taking risks.
Need to scaffold to the higher level of risk-taking.

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