As a district or school leader, each of us has a bullet point in our job description that says something like ‘be the lead learner’, yet when it comes to the day-to-day realities of being in a district position or running a school, the concept of educational leadership seems to slip farther and farther down our ever-growing ‘to do’ lists and the ‘tyranny of right now’! When we do find the time to be an educational leader, we often have to work through frustration and resistance from those we lead to the changes that can make a difference for each of our students. So how do we move from ‘aggravation’ and ‘getting buy-in’ to ‘co-creation’ and ‘impact’? In this practical, hands-on workshop, participants will examine the concept of resistance through the lens of ‘UX’, and examine some of the reasons that we might actually cause resistance even when we don’t mean to! Participants will leave with ready-to-use strategies to re-imagine resistance and model practices we want to see in our classrooms that lead to observable, impactful change where it matters the most, in our classrooms with our students.
