TOPIC: Change Agent/ Organizational Facilitator

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles
• Best Practices in the Use of Learning Supports Leadership Teams to Enhance Learning Supports
• Establishing School-based Collaborative Teams to Coordinate Resources: A Case Study.
• Scaling-Up Reforms Across a School District.
• Systemic Change for School Improvement.
• Upgrading School Support Programs through Collaboration: Resource Coordinating Teams

Diffusion of Innovations and Science-Based Practices to Address Barriers to Learning & Improve Schools: A Series of Information Resources on Enabling System Change
• Brief Overview of Major Concepts from E.M. Rogers' Work on Diffusion of Innovations
• Change Agent Mechanisms for School Improvement: Infrastructure not Individuals
• Policy Implications for Advancing Systemic Change for School Improvement
• Some Key References Related to Enabling System Change
• Some Key Terms Related to Enabling System Change
• Systemic Change for School Improvement

Guidance Note
• Education Leaders’ Guide to Transforming Student and Learning Supports
• Getting From Here to There: A Guide book for The Enabling Component
• Guide for Planning Coaching for SEAs/LEAs to Establish a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Leadership at a School Site for Developing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Notes About the Learning Supports Facilitator Position
• Social Marketing as a Spiraling Facet of Program and Systemic Change
• Turning a Project or Pilot into a Catalyst for Systemic Change and Sustainability

Policy Notes
• Leadership Changes: Minimizing the Downside
• Resource Oriented Teams: Key Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Education Supports
• What Every Leader for School Improvement Needs to Know About Student and Learning Supports

Information Resource
• Leadership for a Learning Support System in State Departments of Education: Example Job Descriptions

Report
• Organization Facilitators: A Key Change Agent for Systemic School and Community Changes

Training
• Leadership for a Learning Support System in State Departments of Education: Example Job Descriptions
• Leadership Training: Moving in New Directions for Student Support

Quick Find
• Job Descriptions Related to Mental Health in Schools
• Staffing Student Support Services: New Directions
• Systemic Change and Schools



See Toolkit

• Transforming Student Supports into a Comprehensive System for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching