Why, How and What – Pedro Beltran

Leading Organization Change

Why

We believe that every student has the potential to create innovations that will enhance humanity.

How

We engage students in the process of exploration, development, and collaboration built with choice, ownership, voice, and authentic learning.

What

We prepare students in the field of engineering to identify and address real-life problems/ opportunities.

The conditions in education over the past years have not been the most ideal for our students. Most students struggled to keep up with the curriculum onsite and online during COVID. Most people think that the problem will disappear once students return to school in its majority. Unfortunately, education is not something we can fix just by doing it. This is not about but what we need to do (Teaching students); it is about understanding why we are doing it. We want to provide students the opportunities in a world of bitcoins, altcoins, production, innovation, coding, programming, and others. We need to understand that our students will face a world not even known by us as adults.

Leading change must start prioritizing the sense of urgency (Kotter, 2013). This statement makes us realize that sense of urgency needs to happen at all levels of our organization, from our parents, students, teachers, administrators, and community partners. The change will not make people think differently, but I actually will make them feel differently. (Kotter, 2011). These feelings will come from what our students will create and demonstrate to our parents and staff. This will be a joint achievement between the teachers and students. It’s not about making people believe in what you have but to believe in what you believe (Sinek, 2009), and I believe that our students have the potential to create innovations that will enhance humanity.