Urban Mathematics Education
Leadership Academy
Session 3
Day 3
March 2 - 4, 2010
Austin, TX
Seasonal Partners
• Find your winter
partner.
• Sit at a table with
another pair of
Winter Partners.
Welcome Back!
• Review of Day 2 “Gots and Needs”
• Day 3 Agenda Review
Goals for Today
• Learn about the Concerns Based Adoption
Model’s Levels of Use tool and apply to your
own work.
• Gain “critical friends” feedback on your
District Project.
• Plan for how you will apply what you have
learned about systems and individual change to
lead change in your district.
Tools for Leading Change
Concerns-Based Adoption
Model:
Levels of Use
LEVELS OF USE
BEHAVIORAL INDICES
VI.
RENEWAL
The user is seeking more effective alternatives to
the established use of the innovation
V.
INTEGRATION
The user is making deliberate efforts to
coordinate with others in using the innovation.
IVB. REFINEMENT
The user is making changes to increase
outcomes.
IVA. ROUTINE
The user is making few or no changes and has
an established pattern of use.
III.
MECHANICAL
The user is using the innovation in a poorly
coordinated manner and is making useroriented change.
II.
PREPARATION
The user is preparing to use the innovation.
I.
ORIENTATION
The user us seeking out information about the
innovation.
O.
NONUSE
No action is being taken with respect to the
innovation.
* (Nonuser stages in blue type)
Implementation
“Stable, built-in, widespread use
of a well designed innovation that
has a positive effect on students
& teachers.”
Michael Huberman
Implementation Dip
Michael Fullan
LoU Scoring Exercise
At your tables, read the 7 LoU statements.
Indicate the overall Level of Use for each
teacher and underline “clues” in the
statements.
Assessing Levels of Use
• LoU Branching Interview
• LoU Focused Interview
Branching LoU Interview
• Turn to Page 168: LoU Branching
Interview
• Observe Susan & Kathy role-play
• Identify the LoU
Applying LoU Data
UMELA School District leaders gathered LoU data through
branching interviews with the five teachers in each of the six
schools. The focus of the interviews was on teachers’ use of the
new mathematics curriculum.
• Select one of the SoCQ charts. Read the LoU information for
those teachers. Discuss:
– What inferences and interpretations can you make?
– What “interventions” might be needed for individual
teachers? (see pp. 161 - 165)
– How might you use these data to inform your professional
development program to achieve districtwide implementation
of the new curriculum?
Reflections
• Personal Reflection
– What insights are you gaining about
how Levels of Use can guide your
work in leading mathematics
education?
• As a Team
– How might you use LoU in your
district’s change efforts?
Evaluation
Please complete the
evaluation survey.
Thanks for a great
session!