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Influencer Strategies
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Influencer Strategies ☆

6 Sources of Influence

Source 1: Personal Motivation

Make the undesirable desirable

Source 2: Personal Ability

Over invest in skill building

  • Invite early adopters and innovation leaders to share how blended strategies have improved engagement and future ready skills
  • New district logo just launched (Feb. 2019) with district mission statement.  Pilot teachers share how district mission statement connects to technology usage and skills
  • Pilot group develops their why statements
  • Ongoing blended learning training offered through a combination of face to face and online platforms
  • Consider blended learning book study
  • Availability of campus instructional coaches and/or district instructional specialists to help design and incorporate blended learning

Source 3: Social Motivation

Harness peer pressure

Source 4: Social Ability

Find strength in numbers

  • Observations of early adopters and innovation leaders outside of the pilot group
  • Modeling and co-teaching with campus and district instructional coaches and specialists in pilot teacher classrooms
  • Pilot teachers observe, co-teach and model with and for each other
  • Pilot teachers use district LMS collaboration space where they can discuss and share ideas, questions and concerns with each other
  • Teacher/student successes shared in team, departments and/or whole campus faculty meetings
  • Meetings (virtual and face to face) with pilot group and instructional technology team to discuss concerns and questions

Source 5: Structural Motivation

Design rewards and demand accountability

Source 6: Structural Ability  

Change the environment

  • Jeans passes for pilot group participants
  • Return of LMS Badging system
  • Spotlight successes in district instructional technology newsletter and/or nominate teachers for district innovation awards

  • Consider purchase of additional devices
  • Increase wifi capabilities to match increased devices on campuses
  • Increase size of Instructional Technology team to provide support and digital resources
  • Consider scheduling options that allow for greater flexibility of “seat time” requirements for students