Change Process
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Services
SEDL provides technical assistance, professional development, research and evaluation, and resources to help educators understand and apply knowledge about school change. Our team of specialists can create a customized plan to transform your school. We will guide you through the process of change, help create conditions for its success, and use instruments to measure your progress.
Regional Comprehensive Centers
SEDL works through two comprehensive centers to support state, regional, and local educators. Select the links below to see a list of each center's services.
- Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC): serves state and local educators in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina
- Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC): serves the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the 20 regional education service centers (ESCs) in Texas
Professional Development
SEDL’s Center for Professional Learning offers professional development on facilitating and managing school change. Courses are available in many formats (e.g., face-to-face, online), grounded in research, designed with practical use in mind, and can be customized to meet your specific needs.
- The Professional Teaching and Learning Cycle (PTLC): This course covers the PTLC, which provides facilitators with a model for engaging teachers in a continuous improvement process in which they collaboratively align curriculum, instruction, and formative assessments to state standards.
- Leadership for Changing Schools (Sessions 1 and 2): This two-session course is designed to help district and school leaders understand and apply knowledge about the change process. The course was developed by former SEDL scholar emerita Shirley M. Hord.
- Concerns-Based Adoption Model: The CBAM is a conceptual framework that describes, explains, and predicts probable teacher behaviors throughout the school change process. Participants learn how to use CBAM instruments to identify educators’ reactions to change and to measure how and to what extent individuals are implementing change.
includes five 3-hour professional development webinars led by Ed Tobia and D'Ette Cowan. Participants will have an opportunity to develop a plan for implementing CBAM with a specific change initiative.
