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Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's wiki with workshop and web 2.0 resources.
CCK08: Connecting for Change: The New Role of Educators
Another response to Nancy White's CCK08 discussion on how to get change to happen. Also includes an interesting graphic with overlapping skills of "social fluency" based on work by Chris Lott.
<img src="http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/images/socialfluency.jpg" title="" alt="social fluency" />
Change has to start with an identified need, not with a good idea. Generally, we only change when we must. Listen for needs.
Change,
like great research, begins with asking important questions, and
provoking respondents to self-change instead of trying to persuade or
impose it.
Experiment. The best, profound changes come from masses of iterative learning and exploration of possibilities.