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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
(Seth Godin, The Big Moo, 2005, p. 34)
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 […]
(Seth Godin, The Big Moo, 2005, p. 35)
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 […]
(Seth Godin, The Big Moo, 2005, p. 36)
(Seth Godin, The Big Moo, 2005, p. 35)
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 […]
(Seth Godin, The Big Moo, 2005, p. 36)
District Administration unveiled what looks to be a very interesting new resource last Friday. Like the Ed-Tech Insiders at eSchoolNews and the TechLearning bloggers, The Pulse is an online area […]
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 […]