“I don't know whether teacher change issues are any more difficult than others. It's just where I have experience. I think any time you're working on... I mean, you know this. People sort of like the idea of change. They just don't want to. And anytime you're working with really talented experts, human beings accustomed to tremendous autonomy, that's a really difficult room. And so the challenge for... In the educational technology version of me, the challenge was people realized that to use this technology well, they had to teach differently. And that forces all sorts of questions, not about practice necessarily, but about identity. I was like, oh, wait a minute. I thought I was pretty good at what I did. And now, maybe I'm entertaining the possibility that I could be better. And working through those identity issues, I think are really difficult.” -Jeff Grabill

In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Erik Skogsberg, Sarah Gretter, and Jeff Grabill about their experience helping Higher Education organizations with design more impactful learning experiences.  They share a handful of the unique challenges of designing change in Higher Education as well as similarities with other change initiatives.  Later, they share how to create the conditions for sustainable longterm change within organizations.  We then discuss the importance of having a shared vocabulary to help all the stakeholders communicate during change initiatives.   Listen in for Michael’s interesting thoughts on the criteria all high-performing teams meet.