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.