Readiness assessment toolkit
Survey items and a scoring rubric across eight readiness dimensions — leadership, staff, culture, communication, capacity, resources, trust, and innovation mindset.
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📂 Resource Library
Resources
A curated library of templates, toolkits, and reading to support every phase of the transformation — from diagnosing readiness to embedding and sustaining the change. Adapt each resource to your own context.
Illustrative Templates
Each card below describes a planning resource you can build for your own setting. These are illustrative template descriptions, not downloadable files — use them as a structure to create your own. Grounded in Kotter, ADKAR, and organizational-development practice.
Templates & toolkits
Transformation roadmap template
A phase-by-phase planner mapping vision, coalition, engagement, implementation, monitoring, and sustainability with owners and milestones.
Build the roadmap →Stakeholder mapping guide
An interest-versus-influence matrix with prompts for who to manage closely, keep satisfied, keep informed, and monitor.
Map stakeholders →Communication plan template
Audience, message, channel, messenger, and cadence — plus a two-way feedback loop to lead with the why.
Plan communication →Implementation checklists
Phase-ready checklists for launch, quick wins, barrier removal, and resource alignment to keep delivery on track.
Open the toolkit →Risk register template
Log risks with likelihood, impact, owner, and mitigation — and review them at every monitoring checkpoint.
See risk indicators →Decision log
A running record of key decisions, the rationale, who was consulted, and the date — for transparency and continuity.
Track decisions →Celebration & recognition kit
Ideas and prompts for surfacing quick wins, recognizing contributors, and sustaining momentum through the hard middle.
Sustain momentum →Sustainability playbook
How to embed the change into routines, systems, and leadership succession so it outlasts any single leader.
Open the playbook →Reading list
Foundational change-leadership and organizational-development reading to ground your practice — see below.
Jump to reading →Recommended reading
Themes and bodies of work that inform this framework. Explore the source authors and organizations directly for full texts.
Kotter's Eight-Step ModelLeading change through urgency, a guiding coalition, vision, communication, quick wins, and anchoring change in culture.
Change model
The ADKAR change frameworkThe individual side of change — Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement — for leading people, not just programs.
People side
Transformational leadershipInspiring shared vision, intellectual stimulation, and individualized support to motivate change.
Leadership
Organizational development & systems thinkingSeeing the school as an interconnected system, where culture, structures, and relationships shape every change effort.
Org development
School improvement & instructional leadershipCoherence, professional learning, and continuous improvement cycles in education settings.
Education
Culture & the human side of changeWhy "culture eats strategy," and how trust, psychological safety, and resistance shape transformation.
Culture
All resources on this page are illustrative templates and thematic reading prompts for demonstration. Adapt them to your context and consult the original authors and organizations for complete materials.