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message been, "Look, we are all teachers, and we need to teach these
students," the program most likely would not have been very successful.
Identifying the why was critical, but this was only the beginning. To
begin the transformation process for the program, I referred back to
something I had learned in my administrator studies. John Kotter, author of
"Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail," identifies eight steps to
successful organizational change:
1. Establish a sense of urgency.
2. Form a powerful guiding coalition.
3. Create a vision.
4. Communicate the vision.
5. Empower others to act on the vision.
6. Plan for and create short-term wins.
7. Consolidate improvements and produce more change.
8. Institutionalize new approaches.
(Kotter, 1995, pp. 59–67)
By following this process, the program was able to make tremendous
gains in a year and a half.
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