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Karen Shean

Developing Educational Administration - 1 views

  • 5 traits that I think are essential in being an educational leader in the 21st Century.
  • An Active Listener
  • A Connected Leader
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  • An Authentic Conversationalist
  • Inspirational and Empowering
  • A 21st Century Learning Specialist
  • The best educational leaders I know listen so deeply during conversations that you know every word is being absorbed and processed.  This is an essential trait in a leader, as it is through deep listening that we can get to the heart of concerns and attend to the real issues at hand.  Too often we find ourselves having superficial conversations day-to-day, saying ‘hi’ or ‘how’s it going?’ in the hallways.  This is not bad in itself, but if these conversations are the only ones you have with your peers for any length of time, you loose the personal connection that is so important to educators.
  • The best educational leaders I know listen so deeply during conversations that you know every word is being absorbed and processed.   This is an essential trait in a leader, as it is through deep listening that we can get to the heart of concerns and attend to the real issues at hand.   Too often we find ourselves having superficial conversations day-to-day, saying ‘hi’ or ‘how’s it going?’ in the hallways.   This is not bad in itself, but if these conversations are the only ones you have with your peers for any length of time, you loose the personal connection that is so important to educators.
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    5 Traits of 21st Century Educational Leadership
Lee Ann Altman

Critical Issue: Technology Leadership - 0 views

  • School leaders at all levels must collaborate with staff members and school personnel to create a vision for the future and a process for change, ensuring that schools and school districts are viable and thriving learning communities for students, staff, and community members. The focus on the purpose and direction of the organization (as a strategy for change work) is to ensure the long-term stability and quality of the educational program. All leadership roles have some management and executive tasks, and the difference between superintendent, principals, and directors is a matter of degree. The scope of the work and the scale of the operation change at each level of leadership. But regardless of a leadership level, school leaders need to make every effort to understand people in lower positions and discuss with them different perspectives. They must go beyond managerial roles and a "facts-and-methods" view of management and focus on the executive challenges of leadership to survive and thrive.
    • Lee Ann Altman
       
      School leaders must collaborate with staff members to create a vision for the future. This will ensure schools have a thriving learning community for students,staff, and community.
Angel Owens

http://www.nassp.org/portals/0/content/55193.pdf - 0 views

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    Bumpy Road: what principals need to know as the technology leader. Written by university professors, this goes through the 10 questions school administrators need to ask themselves to be prepared to lead their school on the technology front.
Angel Owens

A Chat With Educational Technology Leader Califone's Tim Ridgway | Digital NPO - 0 views

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    An interview with a company who has been in the educational technology biz. Interesting thoughts on laptop intiatives, etc.
Lee Ann Altman

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Working with Tech-Savvy Kids - 0 views

  • However, schools can teach students the 21st-century skills they need by involving them in technology planning and implementation. By empowering students to work with adults to solve real-world problems, schools can engage students in meaningful dialogue about technology use, Internet safety, online learning, and filtering. In the process, they hone students' skills in problem solving, collaboration, civic awareness, ethics, leadership, and information and media literacy. Schools benefit from students' insights and experience; at the same time, they show students how their education is relevant for the world today. This kind of involvement captures students' enthusiasm, creates new communication pathways to parents and the community, promotes deeper understanding of the school technology policy, promotes student leadership, improves technology integration schoolwide, and builds respect and trust among all groups.
    • Lee Ann Altman
       
      Schools can teach students the 21st - century skills they need by involving them in technology planning and implementation. This kind of involvement captures students' enthusiasm, creates new communication pathways to parents and community, promotes deeper understanding of the school technology policy, promotes student leadership, improves technology integration schoolwide, and builds respect and trust among all groups.
  • Five Time-Tested Models
  • Model 1: Students as Committee Members
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  • Model 2: Students as Trainers
  • Model 3: Students as Technical-Support Agents
  • Model 4: Students as Resource Developers and Communicators
  • Model 5: Students as Peer Mentors and Leaders
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    Most school or district technology plans call for the inclusion of all stakeholder groups as key to creating a sense of ownership and support that will lead to long-term success. However, these plans often ignore the largest stakeholder group of all-the students.
Kate McElvaney

Expanding PD on a Shoestring Budget - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

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      This is real-world learning that benefits the teachers and the students!
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      The "garnering of support and interest" is an important leadership prerequisite to any PD technology roll out.
  • videoconferencing trainings to help teachers feel more comfortable with the technology
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  • created videos that were sent out through email to teachers to garner support and interest.
  • the team used students
  • The teacher leader delivered a curriculum about how to be responsible, respectful teachers of technology to help students learn soft skills like professionalism and leadership
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