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from the Maryland State Department of Education

"...If the focus of an educational system is student learning, as most mission statements claim, then leaders must compare the reality of their employment of technology with their stated intention."

Michelle, Thanks for posting this! Honestly, one of the best, most "focused" articles I have read in a long time. It really nails the issue of having little or no focus or direction when we're swamped by layers upon layers of standards, initiatives, and skills. Makes me wonder if it might not be a good idea to choose one or two of the NETS-S as a starting point, rather than be daunted by trying to integrate ALL of them.

Ricki Sabia on Universal Design for Learning: Practice and Policy

Design Your Educational Philosophy To Guide Your Decisions

"Listening to Student Voices is a toolkit for K - 12 educational leaders and school-based teams interested in including students in continuous school improvement."

...for Development and Implementation BY: Allan A. Glatthorn

The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT®) is a FREE online tool that provides a set of questions to guide classroom observations of a number of key components of technology integration.

This is an excellent tool for classroom observation if you want to focus on technology integration. You can either fill it out online, or print out the template. Very useful and very appropriate for JHUISTE program, best of both worlds!

"Effective teachers are the key to student success. Yet our school systems treat all teachers as interchangeable parts, not professionals. Excellence goes unrecognized and poor performance goes unaddressed. This indifference to performance disrespects teachers and gambles with students' lives."

"The Johns Hopkins Digital Portfolio (DP) is a Web-based assessment and presentation application that allows users to demonstrate their capabilities and achievements in relation to a pre-determined set of principles or standards."

Sample apa paper with side notes.

A pdf file of a sample APA style paper from OWL at Purdue.

"Here are ten ideas I have learned in the 30 years since I became a principal. "

"Through this document, I am trying to accomplish two things. First, I am attempting to weave together two sets of standards for school leaders, the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders (2008) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) (2009). Second, I am trying to map technology tools/applications onto those standards. My hope is that this will become a guidance document for anyone who works with sitting and aspiring school leaders and who wants to better bring together the fields of educational leadership and educational technology."

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One size fits all mandates and their dangers. Alfie Kohn

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Chris McGoff, on using visual tools to help organizations successfully implement change | SmartBlog on Leadership

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