Change

Change is incrediably hard - within yourself and harder when it is a group. As an administrator you spend so much time investigating the process, learning everything you can and then reaching a decision about implementation. The problem is - that is all within yourself. You have had 9 months to contemplate, visualize and plan and you are expecting your teachers to just blindly agree with you and go without the same 9 months that you had. Teachers need time to contemplate, visualize and plan - but we don't have that amount of time. I began talking to teachers about RtI last year. I indicated that the district would be implementing the process and offered information, workshops and time for review before school started this year. Change is very hard and even though I thought I was giving them enough time - I guess I was wrong. Change is not change until the teachers have to do something - prior to that it is just information.

Back to School

Our district will be having two preservice teacher days next week. The principal has submitted the daily schedule and we are starting to get multiple questions about providing interventions to students in the classrooms. I am anxious to document the questions and comments. We have many teachers who are not on board, change is very difficult. I hope that with communication and information, the teachers will understand that this will improve instruction.