Monday, September 28, 2009
UCEA BlogTalkRadio
I also believe that those who sign up for BlogTalkRadio can do live broadcasts or save interviews as PodCasts. Just think of the possibilities here for us as educational leadership professors and for our students. These tech tools have come a long way. I can remember when I marveled at just being able to upload a file to an email rather than to have to mail a printed copy of the file across the country, or faxing it. Today, the tools are much more powerful. Our challenge now is to learn these new tools and figure out how to use them to enhance our own learning and that of our students.
There are multiple broadcasts available on this site. They are part of an interview series that links leadership to learning.
Enjoy this new site!
Connie
Saturday, September 5, 2009
10 High Flyers on Twitter in Education Week
Monday, August 3, 2009
Cognitive Coaching Workshop
There are four more days of training in the fall semester, and while I'm very much on overload now from these past four days, I sure wish I had that problem-solving map under my belt. If you get the chance to participate in a Cognitive Coaching workshop, DO IT !!!
Thank you Chrysann and Paula for making attending this workshop possible for me. It was such a gift!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
UCEA Wallace Leveraging Change Initiative
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Administration program at Iowa State University. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at dangerouslyirrelevant.org.
The presentation was inspiring -- a kind of move the earth presentation -- with a kind of wake up call for educational organizations to "get with it." I've checked out Scott's online presence and am very impressed. I'm also following him on Twitter. While I am pleased to be twittering and tweeting, to be working on Pecha Kucha presentations (20 slides, 20 seconds for a 6 minute 40 second presentation), to be blogging, to be working with my faculty on an online principal licensure program, to be learning about voice threads ... I should be doing more. Thanks Scott. You've opened my eyes to a new way of working. So the change leveraging project is already underway -- with me. I'm putting on my seat belt. Want to come along for the ride?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Collecting Threads for Weaving a Grant
After all, we thought we had the answer. We thought we knew what these principals would need. We had a bibliography packed full of helpful literature. We had experience in working with and coaching principals. We knew this was going to work. All we needed was the grant money and we were going to do great things.
A needs assessment. Of course. It made perfect sense. Most of the research on large-scale coaching efforts suffered from not having done an adequate or any needs assessment at all. I had a sinking feeling that we would not meet the grant deadline. Our logic model begged for a needs assessment component and not having that needs assessment would set us back. We didn't have enough days left. And since the goal of writing a grant is to actually get the grant funded (not just write the grant and submit it) we decide to wait until the next submission date. It was a good decision.
I am going to take the lead on writing the 25 pages of this proposal. I'm very excited about this work ... and so are my colleagues. We think that coaching is THE THING. And tomorrow we'll start weaving these loose threads into a fabulous grant proposal.