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LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALSOhio • February 2009
Lucy GrayUniversity of Chicago Urban Education Institute
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LUCY GRAYAPPLE DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR
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21ST CENTURY CONTEXT
21st Century Pedagogy
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HENRY AND JULIA
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THE IPOD INTERVIEW
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LEADERSHIP IS CRITICALLead, follow or get out of the way.
-Thomas Paine
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LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALS
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THE OVERVIEWThe Basics Next Steps Deep Cuts
Know Your Curriculum
Do Your Homework
Manage Expectations
Establish GoalsCraft an Elevator
PitchAssess, Assess,
Assess
Allocate Resources Define Policy
Plan for the Future
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• What are the pedagogical and curriculum foundations of your school or district?
• How are you going to ensure that your teachers thoughtfully implement technology?
• It’s not about the tools; it’s about engaged teaching and learning!
KNOW YOUR CURRICULUM
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DEFINE GOALS
• Where do you want to go?
• Enhance student engagement?
• Accelerate teaching and learning?
• Ease the digital divide?
• Prepare students for
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ALLOCATE RESOURCES
• Time and funding are key.
• You can’t have enough professional development.
• Release a teacher to go into classrooms to support engaged use.
• Provide adequate technical support.
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DO YOUR HOMEWORK
Read Research Discuss Network
A Whole New Mind
CARETConduct surveys of
all stakeholdersBlogs
The Global Achievement Gap
Maine’s 1 to 1 Initiative
Hold focus groups Online communities
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will
Change How the World Learns
Apple Learning Interchange
Use facillitation to arrive at a consensus
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“A slang term referring to the 20-60 seconds an entrepreneur has to interest a venture capitalist (VC) in his or her business idea.”
• Develop a comprehensive plan for including all stakeholders
• Create a short version of a more detailed tech plan.
CRAFT AN ELEVATOR PITCH
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DEFINE POLICY
• Be proactive, not reactive.
• Develop policies for as many foreseeable circumstances and identify those who will enforce the policies
• parent and student training
• dealing with theft or damage
• families in need
• loaner pool
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MANAGE EXPECTATIONS
• What do you expect to see over the course of several years?
• Expectations must match your goals.
• Look for consistent, embedded, everyday sorts of technology use.
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PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
• What does a successful program look like?
• How will you assess?
• Qualitatively?
• Quantitatively?
• How are you going to sustain this program?
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LEARN TO CHANGE
Learn to Change, Change to Learn
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SUGGESTED RESOURCES• Charter School Leadership Summit Resources
• NKO Inauguration Project
• Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning
• Edutopia
• Classroom 2.0
• Global Education Collaborative
• USF Technology Integration Matrix19Wednesday, February 18, 2009
CONTACT INFORMATION
• Flickr, del.icio.us, YouTube: elemenous
• iChat/AIM: elemenous
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