Meeting Ten: Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

1. Meeting Ten: Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

2. Learning outcomes drive the selection of technology. Technology provides added value to teaching and learning. Technology assists in the assessment of learning outcomes. NETS for students Worldwide study of innovative pedagogical practices using technology US study in 11 exemplary K12 schools Examples of added value uses for teaching, learning, and assessment Integration Purposes and Possibilities

3. Ready access to supported, managed technology PD is targeted at successful tech integration Professional community enhances technology integration and implementation. NETS-T Technology support components and related impact Professional development standards and resources Professional community sources and benefits Implementation Models and Impact

4. Creating a context where the ETIPS hold true Organizational components (structure, policy, resources) NETS-A Principal Technology Coordinator Teacher Leader Leadership Roles and Responsibilities

9. Trends in Leadership Studies • Formal leaders and their traits • Then examination of their behaviors • Recognition of others, and the organization • And the influence of the context • Positional leaders’ cognitions • Focus on organization and its influence on cognition, but at expense of human agency • Distributed leadership:concerned with interaction of leaders’ thinking, behavior, situation

10. Distributed Leadership • James Spillane, editor of Volume 25, Number 4 of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a special issue on educational leadership • Educational Leadership Research • Leadership for teaching and learning (content area) • Distributed leadership • Educational leadership in and across the educational system

11. Distributions of Leadership • Collaborated • Reciprocal practice • Collective • Independent, yet interdependent, practice • Coordinated • Sequential

12. Roles and responsibilities • What are the relative technology roles and responsibilities of • Principals • Technology coordinators • Teacher Leaders • Based upon what these leaders do collectively, what is technology leadership?

13. “Real Schools” • A “grammar” of schooling • Deeply help idea of schools and classrooms held by educators, parents, and students • The proper way it should be carried out • Second order change would alter some elements and therefore challenge “how it supposed to be”

14. First and Second Order Change • First Order Change • A more minor change to what is already being done. • It is easily reversible • Second Order Change • something significantly or fundamentally different from what was done before. • The process is irreversible: once you begin, it is impossible to return to the way you were doing before.

15. Cargo Cults • South Pacific: A large ship (or airplane) would deliver the cargo if they properly and ritualistically appeased the gods. • Wooden radios with vines as “cords” • Hack airstrips out of the jungle • Carry bamboo guns and practice drills, etc. • A tragic relationship between the end and the means.