In this lesson you will explore how to overcome challenges. Some challenges may be technical and within your current capacity at the school to solve. At the other end of the spectrum, large infrastructural problems such as the lack of electricity or Internet connectivity may seem completely beyond your ability to address and would require support from the system, nationally or provincially. However, you have to face the challenge. These challenges, including the challenge of change leadership itself, can be addressed with a collective response from within your school community. In other words, you go beyond what you know and have to persevere in finding the solution, drawing in other stakeholders if and when you need to do so. One of the simpler adaptive challenges is resistance to change, but it requires a sensitive response from you. There is no one solution to resistance; it depends on the people involved – you have to be adaptive.

Learning Objectives

When you successfully complete the lesson you will be able to:

• Describe how the traits of a visionary technology leader foster sustainable change in the school technology landscape;
• Describe a strategy for facing implementation challenges.