Category: Leadership

An Important Role for #edtech Leaders

221: An Important Role for #edtech Leaders Technology comprises hardware, software, network infrastructure, cloud platforms, and personnel resources. IT leaders must be prepared to accurately assess each when making technology procurement decisions.  The assessment must integrate both internal and external factors. The internal factors are grounded in the contingencies described in a previous section. Software, for example, has system requirements, and if the existing hardware and operating systems Read More

The Nature of Goals 

Almost all management and leadership teams focus on their work by establishing goals. It is reasoned that decisions and actions in the organization must be directed towards the desired state described by the goals. Just like in all organizations, goals and the actions undertaken to achieve them do exist on several levels. It is important to examine the nature of the Read More

Tech for Educators: Planning and Installing Networks

239: Tech for Educators: Planning and Installing N | RSS.com Enterprise networks are incredibly sophisticated and complex systems. They combine hardware and network software that must be scaled for hundreds or thousands of users on campus. There are three adjectives that describe every network if it is in a school or any other business:  Ensuring a network is all three necessitates expertise in network architecture. Read More

Tech for Educators: Three Classes of Networks

Tech for Educators: Three Classes of Networks Ethernet is the dominant network technology used in schools (and just about every other organization). When connecting computers and other devices to Ethernet, we use the same protocols and the same devices no matter how many nodes are connected. The devices we use to create computer networks are designed to Read More

Inquiry and Authentic Assessment

194: Inquiry and Authentic Assessment I have been looking through old papers I wrote as an undergraduate and graduate student years ago… actually decades ago. In 1997, I enrolled in a curriculum development course and a graduate student, and made this observation: An inquiry-based science curriculum that includes authentic assessment is not familiar to most Read More

Characterizing Weak Leaders

190: Characterizing Weak Leaders The blogosphere is full of examples of bad leadership. We have all seen the lists of characteristics of those who are bad leaders and we have all experienced them. Some of my favorite examples do not make these lists. “Guess what I am thinking disguised as brainstorming” is one of my Read More

Profile of Early Majority User

This post is the profile of an “early majority user” (Rogers, 2003). This was a school leader whose work aligned with the characteristics of one at that stage. Our project started with me talking with another curriculum coordinator at one of our regionalmeetings. He was talking about how they were supporting teachers. Teachers were sharing Read More

Google and Schools

I recently had a series of conversations with educators about Google. I was anable to point these folks to the specific artcile I read a few years ago in which scholars challenged some of the assumptions we made how Google uses student data. I promised a blog post pointing to it. Here it is! In Read More

Strategy and Execution

One of my LinkedIn connections liked a post recently. The post can be summarized as “community colleges don’t have a strategy problem; they have an execution problem.” The author details how many of the goals that have been integrated into community college plans in the last decade or so have not resulted in the expected Read More