589 week ten - October 27, 2005
Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities
There is a fair amount to read or skim. In each of the sections a and b go to the online resources. As described in section c, the online post for a reading reaction will be go to Tapped In and make a response to each of the threaded discussion points (due before class on Thursday).
A. Standards for Technology Leadership
- 1. Read the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) ; these were developted by the Technology Standards for School Administrators (TSSA) Collaborative and later adopted and elaborated upon by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). You might want to also look over the profiles they have created.
- 2. Read the article Whale, D. E. (Online publication, October 1, 2003). The New Technology Standards for School Administrators: Findings from the First Large-Scale Survey of High School Principals. Connections, 5. Notice especially the findings and implications and conclusions.
- 3. Read the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC): Standards for School Leaders. The six standards are described starting on page 12. Note that little specific mention is made of technology, but where could one say a principal's knowledge and mastery of it is implied?
B. About Leadership
- 4. What We Know about Successful School Leadership. A special report from Division A of AERA. Read it all and compare its points to the next item on the list (#5, below).
- 5. How Leadership influences Student Learning. This is the Executive Summary from the Wallace Foundation's Learning for Leadership Project. Read it all and compare its points to the prior item on the list (#4, above).
- 6. The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) has a large variety of resources about educational reform and leadership, with special emphasis on technology. An incomplete list is provided here. Look over some of these items on the GLEF site to get a sense of this rich resource and how it illustrates or contradicts the summaries of what leadership is in resources 4 and 5, listed above.
C. Reading Reaction:
This week as a reading reaction I'd like you to respond to the following questions in Tapped In . Look for the thread that matches each one. Do these before class on Thursday as a reading reaction, post #5.
- 1. RE: Standards: Compare and contrast the scope
and detail of the ISTE NETS-A and ISSLC standards. Then, describe where
you see the similarities and differences in the two sets of standards.
- Consider the following points as you answer: Are the NETS-A just repetitive of the ISSLC standards, merely couched in technology language? Do the NETS-A go beyond the ISSLC standards? If so, how? Do we really need the NETS-A? Couldn't technology enthusiasts just help principals interpret where and how technology is implied in the ISSLC standards? Did Whale's results suprise you?
- 2. RE: Leadership: Compare and contrast the definitions
and conclusions in the two documents summarizing leadership and school
improvment (#4 above) and student learning (#5 above). Then, describe
from each document which main ideas either imply or you can identify
an opportunity for technology to support effective leadership practices.
- Consider the following points as you answer: Can you be an effective leader and not know about technology? If you are more knowledgeable about technology will you be a more effective leader? If so, how? Is it necessary to focus on technology leadership because isn't maybe just focusing on effective leadership enough?
Leadership Studies Spillane et al. | Summary of trends in Leadership Studies.
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 25-4. Intro by Spillane, editor.
For next time:
- Class Eleven agenda (F2F)
- Leadership Tools Show and Tell #3
- Reading Reaction, Post #6