This book was jointly created by over 20 onsite and online participants at Educon 2.2, Philadelphia (January 30th, 2010). Please take, read, and share with attribution!
2. This Field Guide for Change Agents was developed during a workshop at Educon 2.2 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 30, 2010. As workshop leaders, we were honoured to
have participation by educators from around the world, including remote participants who
joined us via Elluminate.
The creators have agreed to license their work with an
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Creative Commons license.
You are free to share or adapt the work, on the condition that the author page and
photo attributions are included.
Yours in collaboration,
Rodd & Ben
5. "With great power comes great responsibility"
-Uncle Ben
Photo Credit: Krassy Can Do It
6. “There have been significant advances in recent
years. We're moving in the right direction, just
not quite fast enough.”
- April Gromnicki
Photo Credit: Éole
7. Invention is a flower,
innovation is a weed.
—Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and
founder of 3Com.
Photo Credit: Balakov
8. “Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what
you are for what you could become.” - Unknown
Photo Credit: Sir Mervs
9. An effective change agent is
someone who can't be afraid to
change course.
Mary Beth Hertz & Eric Conti Photo courtesy of CrazyFast on Flickr
(@mbteach) (@ericconti)
10. A person who knows her own mind - how it learns
best - is most likely to be able to change her mind
Photo Credit: ViaMoi effectively.
Gardner (2006)
12. Definition of a Change Agent
-noun
1. closet pyromaniac
2. one who sparks fires in their world
Jason(raventech) Ramsden
mage: 'The Oil Planet' http://www.flickr.com/photos/18583731@N07/2731049453
13. It really is okay to be proud
of the work that you have
helped to create.
While no passion of yours is
100% yours, there is something
important about standing up
for the change that you believe
needs to take place.
There are moments when "we"
(students, teachers, admins)
are ready to move on to the
next step in our progression.
We have to know when that
is as well.
Photo Credit: laurenmarek
14. Trying not to drown anyone with my waves.
Photo Credit: angela7dreams
15. Some men see things as they are and say WHY? I
dream things that never were and say WHY NOT!
RFK, 1968
Photo Credit: wikimedia commons
23. Threat of the THWADDIES*!
*(That's How We Always Did It)
Photo Credit: alist
Kevin Hogan, Tech and Learning
24. I feel like I am the
only one
Photo Credit: multiget
25. The problem is never
how to get
NEW innovative
things into your mind
but how to get the
OLD
OLD ones out. Unknown
Photo Credit: japanamanda
26. Whatever changes are being considered, sustainable
leadership should look to the past for precedents that
can be reinvented and refined, and for evidence of
what has succeeded or failed before.
- Hargreaves (2005)
Photo Credit:haydnseek
27. If you let
negativity and
lack of interest
halt your
progress, this is
what you risk
Photo Credit:Darwin Bell
28. Sometimes we are on the
outside looking in of the
conversations we need to be
in. Getting "in the room" or
"in the circle" matters.
Not contributing isn't always
an option.
Photo Credit:Elisabeth Audrey
29. "When I am out there, in time, I
am inverted, changed into a
desperate version of myself."
-- Audrey Niffenegger
Photo MirandaLouisel
30. Change is like
sunshine...
some change because they
finally see the light and
some change because they
FEEL THE HEAT.
Photo Rishibando
38. If you want to collaborate globally, know your
time zones
Photo dno1967
39. “The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a
very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers,
pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These
people…will now reap society’s richest rewards and share
its greatest joys.”
- Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind
Photo Zoe
45. Photo henry grey
Especially in moral occupations like teaching, the
more one takes the risk to express personal purpose,
the more kindred spirits one will find.
- Fullan (1993)
46. Struggle
shouldn't be
avoided in
support. We
should be okay
with asking
really hard
questions of one
another.
Photo rockfingrz Photography