Kotter's 8-Step Process for Leading Change as a framework for school technology implementation¶

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Description¶

Kotter's 8-Step Process for Leading Change is a change management roadmap for leaders, organized into three phases: creating a climate for change, making the change happen, and sustaining the change. The article used it as both a professional learning content and an analytic lens, grouping steps such as building a guiding coalition, enlisting a volunteer army, removing barriers, and generating short-term wins. The report states it "provides a change management roadmap for leaders, from creating the climate for change to sustaining the change as part of organizational culture."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Leaders must proactively identify potential obstacles, such as lack of time and technology support, and opportunities to showcase short-term wins

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• instructional coaches
• district leaders

Target Learning Objectives¶

• leading adoption of instructional technology
• sustaining change in instructional practice

Claims¶

• An innovation foreign to the rest of its system tends to be rejected; lasting change needs a coordinated bundle of innovations. [~W]

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Key Sources¶

• Cherise McBride, Amanda Wortman, Stefani Pautz Stephenson, Kelly McNeil, Rebecca Banks. (2026). Change Management and AI Tools in Literacy Instruction. Digital Promise. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/ff0512d6-757c-4d4e-be31-0347f5104f02