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students with deafblindness;
• Providing professional development for the sensory team on
effective coaching practices;
• Creating operating guidelines for the sensory team to further
secure the team's roots in both the district and the RDSPD; and
• Assisting neighboring school districts and RDSPDs in the
development of their own sensory teams.
While this article may appear to oversimplify the process that we used
to begin the transformation of educational programming for students with
deafblindness, Kotter's eight-step model for change is hardly simple.
Throughout the year, those involved in this process achieved a certain
comfort level residing in an ever-expanding gray area where questions and
problems continually appeared and definitive answers and solutions were in
short supply. Surprisingly, no one appears to mind. "Leaps of greatness,"
says Simon Sinek (2014), "require the combined problem-solving ability of
people who trust each other" (p. 70). With a collaborative focus on the why,
we will get the job done.
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