527 Weekly Blog 6

With the conclusion of our class I am much more aware of what it means to be a leader. I am also much more aware of the process of making change within my school. In the past I have often been frustrated why change did not occur more frequently or often in the districts that I have taught in in the past. Now having played the "Change Game" I am much more aware of the process through which change should occur. On Friday in my district we had an RTI speaker on how we were going to implement RTI change in our school. There were several times when I smiled to myself as our district seemed to be following the same steps we took in our change game. Another concept that I will take away from the class is the importance of getting people involved in the change process. As we painfully discovered in our group during the change game you will never get everyone on board and spending an exorbitant amount of time trying to get every last person on board can be counter productive. Finally, I want to comment on our last class and the 2 million minutes. I thought that was really cool and sparked some great discussion. It will be interesting which direction we will go as country when it comes to how hard we want to push our math and sciences.