Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod

Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Iowa State University

Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. He also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. In Spring 2011 he was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and Mind Dump, and occasionally at The Huffington Post. He can be reached at scottmcleod.net.

On Sunday I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dr. Sara Dexter. Sara is an Assistant Professor of technology leadership in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at […]
On Monday I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Wesley Fryer. We talked about blogging, LeaderTalk, CASTLE’s Principal Blogging Project, and technology leadership issues. If you’re interested, here’s the […]
I’m pleased to announce that Dr. David Whale, Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership Department at Central Michigan University, will be my guest blogger next week. David is interested in […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] One of the questions that I ask right at the beginning of our students’ School Technology Leadership certificate program is whether administrators can be effective […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted about U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings’ ed tech woes. Apparently now she wants to hear from YOU. Please give her your thoughts […]
I rarely share personal news here, but since the word is starting to get out, I might as well publicly announce that I’m leaving the University of Minnesota. I accepted […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Individual choices add up. For example, at the moment when I eat something unhealthy, it seems like a fairly trivial thing. Over time, however, those calories and […]