By The BCSL Team As the 2024-2025 school year kicks off, we’re eager to continue the good work at Baylor’s Center for School Leadership (BCSL). There’s something special about the start of a new academic year—fresh faces, new challenges, and the opportunity to grow alongside our incredible community of educators. This summer, Dr. Jon Eckert, Co-Executive Director of the BCSL and Professor of Educational Leadership, has spoken at a number of convocations centered around the […]
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The Middle Season: Thriving All the Way Through Change
By Anna Bryan This summer, we have reposted Anna Bryan’s articles on Adaptive Change as reminders that change is hard, important, messy, necessary, and can be managed. In this last post, The Middle Season: Thriving All the Way through Change she reminds us of the energy we have for change at the beginning of the school year, but how in November and December the momentum dissipates, or we can find ourselves lost in the mess. […]
Maximizing Commitment in a Season of Change
By Anna H. Bryan Over the summer, we have been reposting articles from Anna Bryan on her experiences with Adaptive Change in schools. This blog, “Maximizing Commitment in a Season of Change,” is particularly timely as we prepare for the return of teachers to our buildings for the start of the 2024-25 school year. The article is especially helpful in thinking about how to create genuine engagement for change rather than simply convincing skeptics to […]
The Worst Possible Idea: Seeing Our Challenges Anew
By: Anna H. Bryan Reintroduction to Insights from Anna Bryan on Adaptive Change You’re now halfway through the summer and the school year is speeding toward you. This is often when we reengage our work and our colleagues to not only plan a great year, but also to see improved student outcomes. In this article from March 2023, Anna Bryan encourages us to rethink our solutions by stating, Now we have identified and prioritized a […]
Slow Down to Speed Up: The Critical Key to Diagnosis
Reintroduction to Insights from Anna Bryan on Adaptive Change Summer is a pivotal time for implementing changes for the upcoming school year, a pattern we frequently observe at the BCSL. Often, when addressing adaptive changes and implementing new initiatives in our schools, progress stalls, and focus wanes during the vacation period. Schools are also notorious for not following through on changes, overloading with new initiatives, or pursuing the latest technical solutions without fully integrating them. […]