UCEA Wallace Leveraging Change Initiative

I'm in Austin Texas for a couple of days working with participants from seven other Educational Leadership programs on the UCEA-Wallace Leveraging Change Initiative. Our teams were selected because we have participated in accomplishing change at our own universities. Now we are collaborating on a book project to share with other Deans and Educational Leadership Faculty to assist in future change projects in other leadership programs around the county. So far, the highlight of Monday (beyond working with my colleagues on this team) was an adobe connect presentation by Scott McLeod (and here's a short bio on Scott).

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?