Transistion

Change + Human Beings = Transition

Often people are more resistant to transition than change.

There are 7 principles for dealing with transition

1. Positive Visioning
2. Help People Access Good Information and Trust Them to Make Good Decisions
3. Inclusion and Openness
4. Enable Sharing and Networking
5. Build Resilience
6. Inner and Outer Transition
7. Subsidiarity: self‐organization and decision making at the appropriate level

http://transitionus.org/initiatives/7-principles

Change

Many people resist change and are fearful that change will negatively affect them. Life change is difficult because it impact one's roles, relationships, routines, and assumptions about oneself. The single most important factor to managing change successfully is the degree to which people demonstrate resilience: the capacity to absorb high levels of change while displaying minimal dysfunctional behavior.

How can we better handle change?
Here are four resources:

• understand the situation - how you feel about the change or the timing of the change
• understand yourself - how you view change and your previous history of change
• find support - reach out to others and find resources that be of assistance
• find strategies for coping - find ways to proactively engage the change

Diversity

"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color."  Maya Angelou

Diversity comes in many forms - age, learning and physical abilities, gender, sexual orientation.

Education about diversity can

• Increase problem solving skills through different perspectives applied to reaching solutions.
• Increase positive relationships through achievement of common goals, respect, appreciation of common goals, respect, and commitment to equality.
• Decrease stereotyping and prejudice through contact and interaction with diverse individuals.
• Promote the development of a more in-depth view of the world.

Living Our Identities

Knowing how you indentify yourself is instrumental in how you deal with others. This and other meaning-making frameworks challenge us as educators to question and analyze what we believe we know and how this is reflected in the present work we do with students on a daily basis.(http://www.myacpa.org/) Understanding multiple identities will help to create a more inclusive learning environment and help me to understand the importance of attending to possible tensions that may build between multiracial communities and how to balance that with the individual needs of students.

Altruism

Paying it forward is lending a helping hand to someone in need.
Its making a huge difference by doing something small.
It's leaving the world a better place than you found it.

• Be aware of an opportunity
• Be present
• Participate
• Be comfortable with the uncomfortable
• Be open minded, accepting, and respectful

Because 1 good deed can turn into 3

And 3 good deeds can turn into 9.

And 9 good deeds can turn into a movement.

http://www.donovannichols.com/Site/Pay_It_Forward.html

Tuckman's Model of Group Development

Forming....Storming....Norming....Performing....Adjourning



Delegation

Leadership and Delegation

When a leader delegates they increase efficiency by putting in the same amount of time but getting more output. Delegating creates peer mentorship and saves time in the long run. There are two kinds of delegation: stewardship and gofer. Stewardship focuses on results. Gofer is having someone "go for this".

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere a long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."  - Ronald Reagan