District Administration - November/December 2010 - (Page 41)
Leadership deveLopment
Photo by Brian Gunnell
Pamela Moran, the superintendent of Albemarle County (Va.) Schools, shows elementary students how to use an iPad in lessons. From Skyping with educational consultants at universities, to e-mailing and tweeting teachers, to publishing her own blog, Moran keeps technology front and center.
By Ron SchachteR
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A Call for Technology Leadership
New recommendations urge every superintendent to have a technology strategy—or risk falling behind.
“empowering the 21st century Superintendent,” a blueprint for seizing the technological initiative in areas ranging from better integrating technology into classroom instruction, to creating professional learning communities for teachers, to inventing more complex assessments of student work. While these themes are already high on the agenda of many districts, coSn’s document makes the case that nowadays the effective use of educational technologies is crucial and provides action steps for superintendents to take. in april, the international Society of technology in education (iSte) launched iSte learning, an online resource designed to help leaders implement new technologies in the classroom (see sidebar).
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he ReSponSiBilitieS oF the modern school superintendent may already seem boundless, from making the most of shrinking budgets, to working 21st-century skills into the K12 curriculum, to meeting the escalating standards of nclB testing. But thanks to the initiatives of two national organizations dedicated to improving the use of educational technology in schools, the job description just got longer. last July, the Washington, D.c.-based consortium for School networking (coSn) released an updated version of
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - November/December 2010
District Administration - November/December 2010
Contents
From the Editor
News Update
Administrator Profile
District Profile
Black Children Still Left Behind
ARRA Funds Empower Schools to Power Down
A Call for Technology Leadership
Readers Pick Top 100 Products of the Year
Going Mobile
Superintendent’s Insights
Supervisor’s Opinion
Professional Opinion
Student Counsel
District Administration - November/December 2010
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