Visionary Leadership: Effective leadership advances the vision of integrating technology and curriculum in today’s school buildings. As such, the visionary leader ensures action plans are in place for rolling out tablets into classrooms and ensuring the effective use of smart boards and computer labs. Such action plans require time, collaboration, and communication. Only then can educators expect to have students engaged in the learning process.
Teaching, Learning, and Assessments: These three critical components, teaching, learning, and assessment, are not accomplished in isolation but are intimately related within the learning environment. As educators, the interplay of the three components need to be modeled for teachers. In this manner, educators are able to gain a much comprehensive view of student knowledge, skills, interests, and levels of needed differentiation.
Digital Age Learning Environment: Creating learning environments in which all students have access to technological resources is critical. This aspect is crucial as the teacher is no longer the sole source of information.
Professional Development and Program Evaluation: The design of effective professional development requires feedback from teachers. How are the students progressing? What needs to change? Answers to such questions will drive the direction in which continued professional growth needs to move.
Digital Leadership: This component requires modeling digital citizenship. The use of digital tools is a privilege in the school context. As with other tools for learning, there are appropriate and inappropriate ways of using them. Using digital tools to increase understanding, communicating, and learning should always be modeled.
Content Knowledge and Professional Growth: What must still be learned? Am I growing? Answering these questions are important in order to continue to deepen my understanding in content knowledge. This requires reading, practice, and self-reflection.
