Project Management for Education: The Bridge to 21st Century Learning

PROJECT MANAGER CHAPTER

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Educators as Project Managers

How Can We Help Educators Become Better Project Managers?

I'm not sure how project managers can really help me.I didn't realize how many things in common I have with a project manager!

—Two teacher responses to PMs as education mentors

These two statements highlight the challenges for both educators and PMs to build the necessary bridges of understanding between their professions.

Here is how one project manager reflected on how the project-manager-to-educator bridge-building journey can unfold:

In 2006, when I started my journey into bringing project management into the school world, the most difficult obstacle to overcome was the seeming resistance of teachers toward my proposals ...