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Some examples of Use of the IBM Reinventing Education Change Toolkit
The IBM Reinventing Education Change Toolkit (www.reinventingeducation.org) has more than 3,500 registered users in all 50 states and in 10 countries around the world. Some examples of its use and related endorsements include:

• On September 22, 2004, Western State College, in Gunnison, CO, received a $4.7 million, 5-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support a project to strengthen teacher training programs and improve student achievement-a key goal of the No Child Left Behind education reforms. In the grant announcement, Western Program Director Nella B. Anderson said the partnership's "research and trailblazing practices will be driven by the IBM Reinventing Education Change Toolkit." The grant's leadership implementation team has come to New York for two full days of professional development using the Change Toolkit and the team is now engaged in project work with the Change Toolkit. The grant will ultimately result in a redesign of the Teacher Education Program at Western with the primary goal of developing a comprehensive rural model to provide teachers for high-need areas. Partners in the project include arts and sciences faculty from several academic areas at Western, Gunnison Watershed School District RE1J, Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1, the Colorado Department of Education, and IBM Corporation.
• In the last year and a half, in Georgia, 75 state school superintendents who participated in the Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement (GLISI) have received training on leadership and change management through use of the IBM Reinventing Education Change Toolkit. Many of these Superintendents are now using the Change Toolkit in their districts, and they tell their own stories of use in videos that are available on the Change Toolkit Website. Projects include comprehensive school improvement, coordinating teams for lesson plan development, and improvement in 8th grads mathematics instruction. In a related effort, the Change Toolkit's Change Wheel was the instrumental framework and its underlying content used in a partnership between Georgia's State School Superintendent and the GLISI SAT Community of Learning and Achievers to help raise the state-wide SAT average. Most recently, in December 2004, seven school superintendents came to the Georgia Regents' Office to tell the Chancellor about some of the ways their participation in Georgia's Leadership Institute for School Improvement has impacted their school districts. The top two impacts these Superintendents listed were that GLISI had "Provided tools for leading the school improvement process" and had "Sparked motivation for change for improvement…[by] introduce[ing] and provid[ing access to] the Change Toolkit for driving and sustaining change."
• The Change Toolkit was an integral part of the 2002 and 2003 Harvard Business School Program for Change Leadership: Leading Innovation and Transformation in Public Education Systems, a first-of-its kind executive education program for school leaders. The program's faculty included Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ellen Lagerman (Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education), Richard Elmore (Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education), and Bob Schwartz (Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education).
• The South Carolina Department of Education has, since 2003, used the Change Toolkit for leadership training for both school principals and district superintendents who have participated in the SC DoE Leadership Institutes.
• The office of High School Renewal of Boston Public Schools has begun to use the Change Toolkit to support its restructuring efforts at six new small schools which are due to open in September 2005. New headmasters and their core teams will be introduced to the Toolkit and supported in their use as a management structure for the planning and implementation.
• In Washington, DC and Virginia, middle and high school principals in four schools (Chandler Middle School, Bell Multicultural High School, Armstrong High School (will begin winter 2005), and McKinley Technology High School) are using the Change Toolkit to support school administrators and teachers in creating Career Academies or Smaller Learning Communities and to support teachers developing new curriculum. In Virginia and Maryland, State education leaders are also using the toolkit to foster continued collaboration among math, science, language and art teachers, for Leadership Development of principals and for a new Parent Involvement Program that supports student improvement and academic intervention.
• In addition to the projects listed above, the Change Toolkit has been used on numerous building-level projects, including general school improvement planning, supporting the move to block scheduling, curriculum redesign, and more effective use of data to support instructional practice.