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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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TEACHER LEADERS
When I Become a Teacher
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21ST CENTURY CONTEXT
Learn to Change, Change to Learn
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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 OVERVIEW
The 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 tomorrow’s workforce?
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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 facilitation to arrive at a consensus
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• Develop a comprehensive plan for including all stakeholders
• Create a short version of a more detailed tech plan.
CRAFT AN ELEVATOR PITCH“A slang term referring to the 20-60 seconds an entrepreneur has to interest a venture capitalist (VC) in his or her business idea.”
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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?
• How will you communicate your successes?
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LET’S GET CRAZY
Here’s to the Crazy Ones
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RESOURCES• Charter School Leadership Summit
Resources
• NKO Inauguration Project
• Think.com
• Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning
• Edutopia
• Classroom 2.0
• Global Education Collaborative
• USF Technology Integration Matrix
• TED
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Flickr, Twitter, del.icio.us, YouTube: elemenous
iChat/AIM: elemenous
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