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<h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Step 1: Considering Change</h2>
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<p>Select an important and difficult challenge related to making change in your school or other organization. </p>
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<p>What issues are you passionate about tackling within your system? <strong>Take about 5 minutes to brainstorm about what you would change in your school, district, or other educational organization if you could. Then consider the following criteria as you select the challenge you’ll move forward with:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>What is the impact on student learning if this problem is solved?</strong> Students will be one of your primary stakeholders, meaning you should consider them as <strong>primary users</strong>. Change in schools is only meaningful if it affects the day-to-day lives of students. You should be able to explain how your challenge relates to making changes that will matter.</li>
<li><strong>Is this challenge important to other people besides you?</strong> You will have an easier time getting help and support from others if your challenge is something that others care about. Consider issues that affect multiple levels of a system. Does your school or district have designated issues they plan to tackle in the upcoming years? What issues concern your community? Consider aligning your challenge to match up with those issues.</li>
<li><strong>Is your challenge manageable in scope?</strong> Ideally, your challenge is large enough to be worth investing substantial thought and energy, but not so large as to feel impossible. Aim for a challenge that could keep a community of educators busy for 1-3 years in order to make substantial improvement.</li>
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<p><strong>Explain your challenge concisely and clearly, ideally in one sentence. </strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Example:</strong> </span>As an educator, I know that having one short conference with the parent(s) of my students is ineffective because I often see anxiety on the student side and uncertainty on the parent side.</p>
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