Scott McLeod
Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Iowa State University
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. He also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. In Spring 2011 he was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and Mind Dump, and occasionally at The Huffington Post. He can be reached at scottmcleod.net.
Two weeks ago I announced a new CASTLE project: to get 100 new principal blogs up and running within 100 days. To date we have had 33 requests for new […]
Google for Educators is a new web site from our friends at Google that puts twelve of its tools together for use by K-12 teachers. The list includes Google Documents […]
I am going to brag about a couple of our School Technology Leadership alumni in this post. The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) recently unveiled its free Value of Investment […]
See below – a message I sent out over a few listservs – thought I’d post it here too. Please forward on to others and consider participating yourself (if appropriate). […]
As you can probably imagine, I was delighted to read Don Knezek’s thoughtful and lengthy reply to Doug Johnson’s query about everything that ISTE was doing to address the technology […]
Okay, I’m putting my money where my mouth is… Starting today, CASTLE is kicking off an initiative to create 100 new principal blogs in 100 days. We’re looking for 100 […]
I’m enjoying blogging. It allows me to connect with others, get ideas out that are bouncing around inside my head, and get some positive affirmation that the ideas that I […]
Yesterday I asked, “How strong and vibrant is the workplace we create for most educators?” As part of that post, I listed twelve questions from First, Break All the Rules: […]
Does technology positively impact student learning? Although David Warlick has noted that the question may not really matter that much, educators, citizens, and policymakers still are interested in this issue […]
A friend recommended that I read First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently. Since the principalship is a classic middle management position, I thought I […]
As a technology leadership guy who also happens to have a law degree, I often get asked legal questions related to school technologies. Today, at the request of Miguel, I’m […]
David Warlick’s recent comments about rural Internet access got me thinking again about an issue I’ve discussed with my students. I think we need some kind of national rural Internet […]
Miguel Guhlin invited me to be a guest blogger on the TechLearning blog. A couple of days ago I submitted my first post – I will be blogging for TechLearning […]
Since David posted about one of his data-driven decision-making (DDDM) projects yesterday, I thought I’d chime in with some info about a massive DDDM initiative underway here in Minnesota… The […]
This is a post for those of you who work in, or have taken classes from, university educational leadership programs. Below is a statement from a recent e-mail exchange I […]
This eSchoolNews article discusses the recent Wall Street Journal article criticizing one-to-one laptop programs and contrasts it with ISTE’s new book highlighting successful laptop programs. Here’s the problem… The article […]
A nation’s economy can be divided into different sectors. nn If you took away technology from the primary sector (raw goods) of our economy agriculture, mining, forestry, farming, fishing, […]
Schools always have limited resources. Even when they get a big grant or the community approves a technology referendum, there’s never enough money to go around. It seems to me […]
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 started this blog a month ago. Since then I’ve discovered the difficulty of coming up with something meaningful and interesting at least five times a week. I’ve also discovered […]
I recently compiled a short list of quotations that have greatly influenced my thinking about schools, technology, and the future. I’ve been handing it out to K-12 administrators to spark […]
Educators today are expected to integrate the collection and analysis of student learning data into their ongoing instructional and organizational practice. Yet if you walked into almost any school in […]
In addition to the white paper that I wrote for Microsoft that summarized essential data-driven decision-making concepts for teachers and principals, I also wrote a second white paper that summarized […]
Here’s a great quote from Seth Godin’s The Big Moo. See also the About This Blog quote from Gwynne Dyer in the top right corner of this web page.
Last week I had a series of posts on the potential value of blogging by administrators. To facilitate easy dissemination to school leaders (hint, hint!), this four-page PDF document contains […]