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I’m pleased to announce several more guest bloggers. Dr. David Quinn, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, will be a guest blogger next week. He will be followed by… […]
I’m a quotes aficionado so I just added a quotes category. I realized that I needed somewhere to capture the poignant phrasing of others and figured this was as good […]
Yesterday I began a week-long series of posts that discuss the potential value of blogging by K-12 administrators. This series of posts stems from Chapter 4 of The Corporate Blogging […]
School starts today here in Minnesota. Let’s see how we’re doing. Hmmm… Looks like we still have some work to do.
The latest report from the feds reminds us that there’s still a lot of work to be done to close the digital divide. Here are a few highlights from the […]
My series on the potential value of blogging by K-12 administrators continues today. In this post I’ll cover issues related to community building and customer relations. Previous posts addressed issues […]
Jim Collins has come out with a monograph that applies the lessons from Good to Great to social sector leaders (e.g., school administrators). Good to Great and the Social Sectors […]
I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback on the white paper that I wrote last year for Microsoft so I thought I would share it as a resource here. […]
This is Day 4 of my thread on the potential value of blogging by K-12 administrators. Today I’ll address issues related to branding and creating “customer evangelists.” Previous posts covered […]
I’m pleased to announce my first guest blogger, Dr. David Quinn. David is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy at the University of Florida and […]
This is the final day of my thread on the potential value of blogging by K-12 administrators. Today I’ll address issues related to thought leadership, advocacy, and potentially replacing part […]
As Jim Collins has noted, good is the enemy of great. In other words, organizations that are viewed internally or externally as being good rarely have any incentive to do […]
Even though I’ve been a NASSP member for years, it took me until yesterday to run across the Principal’s Policy Blog – definitely a source I’ll start tracking from now […]
In a previous post, I commented on the perceptions of many K-12 educators that their school’s academic success is hostage to their student demographics. There’s another angle to this – […]
I’m on a search for administrator blogs and/or podcasts, particularly those that are using such tools to communicate about school / district issues to their communities. Anyone know of any […]
Much conversation has occurred in the educational blogging community about DOPA. One of the arguments against DOPA that hasn’t popped up that much is the fact that the perceived problem […]
My local paper, the Star Tribune, had an article today on helicopter parents, those overinvolved moms and dads who hover closely around their children’s school, teachers, and/or administrators. Helicopter parent […]
Much attention has been paid to the value of teachers and/or students blogging. Today I kick off a week-long series of posts that discuss the potential value of blogging by […]
I was delighted to see Miguel Guhlin’s fictional response last week to Anne Davis’ draft letter requesting permission to use Flickr in a hypothetical school district. The brilliant part of […]
NACOL, UCCP, and Pepperdine University are co-sponsoring a regional online learning symposium in Los Angeles, California on October 11, 2006. The web site for the symposium states that the presentations, […]
Superintendents and principals are rarely the technology leaders in their organizations. As Director of CASTLE, I say this with both confidence and dismay. Here are a couple of quick examples […]
While browsing in Barnes & Noble last night, I ran across this quote from Joy at Work: The idea of servant leadership in K-12 education is nothing new. As with […]
A recent post by Kevin Carey at The Quick and the Ed highlights one of the essential dilemmas faced by those of us who are working desperately to improve students’ […]
In a previous post I noted that our technology leaders are rarely superintendents or principals, the individuals in formal positions of authority within school districts. So if our technology leaders […]
A few years back I did a nationwide study of district technology coordinators for NCREL, with help from CoSN and QED. Although our response rates were much lower than we […]
Most educators have a national association that advocates for the educational, work, and political interests related to their particular role in schools. For example, teachers have NEA and AFT, counselors […]
In conjunction with its fabulous annual conference, the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) is hosting its first-ever educational technology research symposium. Accepted papers will be published on CD-ROM and in […]
We know – we know! – that sustainable success in schools never occurs without effective leadership. And yet, when it comes to digital technologies, our nation’s school leaders are sorely […]
One of the most important issues in K-12 technology right now is the lack of engagement of administrators who are in formal positions of authority. For example, you can go […]