Change Leaders Critical Resources
What are the Critical Resources for Change Leaders?
This searchable collection contains documents and sites for those who are interested in leading change. Review the questions below to learn more about leading change and explore the curated resources in the collection.
The critical resource collection explains why the resources are useful for change leaders or those who want to become change leaders.
How can I lead change?
Anybody can be a change leader. If you are creating, facilitating, or advocating for change in STEM education, at any level of the higher education system, you are a change leader. Change leaders may be either formal or informal leaders -- graduate students, faculty members, education leaders, department chairs, professional developers, administrators, etc.
To effectively lead change, think carefully about what type of change you are trying to accomplish, and how you might accomplish this. Who else do you need to involve? What do you need to learn? What might the barriers be? What data might support your planning?
How can I support those who lead change?
Those supporting change leaders often have skills, connections, and/or authority that can be valuable to the change leader. Supports can be within the institution, from chairs and administrators, teaching and learning center staff, or other faculty. Outside the institution, professional organizations and other support networks can be critical.
Develop change leadership competencies
What professional development might they need, and how can they get it? How can you help them identify resources, barriers, and institutional context? How can you help them to access or collect relevant data?
Champion change leader's efforts
Make the work of change leaders work visible within and across departments, celebrate their efforts, and reward them as possible. You may act as a valuable liaison to other stakeholders, including those in positions of authority, translating the change leader's efforts to appropriate language.
Professional development resources for supporters of change leaders include leadership and facilitation training, training in organizational change, and involvement with organizations for professional developers (such as POD).
Review the resources below to learn more!
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Leading Change
× Leading Change This book describes the process of leading change in any type of organization. Suggested Citation Kotter, J. P. (2012). Leading change. Harvard business press.
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Outreach:Policy Change
Leadership on the line, with a new preface: Staying alive through the dangers of change.
× Leadership on the line, with a new preface: Staying alive through the dangers of change. This book describes leadership skills needed to thrive in positions that require disrupting the status quo to ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Inter-Institutional Collaboration
Strategic Toolkit: Strategies for Effecting Gender Equity and Institutional Change
Strategic Toolkit: Strategies for Effecting Gender Equity and Institutional Change The Toolkit includes 13 Strategic Intervention Briefs that each explain a specific intervention to foster change for greater ...
Target Audience: Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Toolkit
Program Components: Institutional Systems
The Science Education Initiative Handbook
Stephanie Chasteen and Warren Code
× The Science Education Initiative Handbook This book offers advice on implementing a department-level changes to curricula and instructional practices facilitated by Discipline-Based Educational Specialists ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Interdepartmental Collaboration
SFES: Science Faculty with Education Specialties Research Site.
× SFES: Science Faculty with Education Specialties Research Site. This site collects the publications of the SFES Research Team at San Francisco State University. Suggested Citation SFES: Science Faculty ...
Target Audience: Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Promotion and Tenure, Evaluating Teaching, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change
Fostering Change from Within: Influencing Teaching Practices of Departmental Colleagues by Science Faculty with Education Specialties
× Fostering Change from Within: Influencing Teaching Practices of Departmental Colleagues by Science Faculty with Education Specialties Science faculty with education specialties often have a role in ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training
Accelerating change: The power of faculty change agents to promote diversity and inclusive teaching practices
R. Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary; Rachel Beane, Bowdoin College; Eric Baer, Highline College; Pamela Eddy, College of William and Mary; Norlene Emerson, University of Wisconsin-Richland; Jan Hodder; University of Oregon; Ellen Iverson, Carleton College; John McDaris, Carleton College; Kristin O'Connell, Carleton College; Carol Ormand, Carleton College
This article about preparing faculty to act as change agents to support diversity and inclusion is applicable to both two-year colleges and a larger audience.
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion, Institutional Systems:Incentive/Reward Systems, Strategic Planning
Four frames for systemic change in STEM departments
× Four frames for systemic change in STEM departments Aimed specifically at change agents operating at the department level, this short article outlines four areas that change agents should focus on -- ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Degree Program Development, Outreach:Policy Change
Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department
Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department This paper describes the role and potential contributions of science faculty with education specialties within ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change
Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation
× Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation In this article Risien provides a framework for examining structures, roles and practices of networks, and particularly of roles ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change