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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.

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Activity: Schools, change, and resource allocation
Here’s an activity you can do with school administrators and teachers (and maybe school board members?). Total time: about 45 minutes.n
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Video – Social Media Reading List for School Leaders
This is a must-watch video by Hans Mundahl, Director of Experiental Learning and Technology Coordinator at the New Hampton School in New Hampshire. Not only does Hans have a cool […]
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Does teacher tenure have a future?
As a school law instructor and tenured associate professor of educational leadership, I perhaps have a different view of tenure than most P-12 teachers. As we look to what the […]
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Reappopriation of the personal sphere
Here are three quotes from Stefana Broadbent’s excellent TED Talk: there are new, hidden tensions that are actually happening between people and institutions — institutions that are the institutions that […]
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Our mental models are the biggest barrier to moving schools forward into a digital, global era
What is the biggest barrier to moving schools forward into a technology-suffused, globally-interconnected era? Our mental models of what schooling should look like. Unfortunately, most educators, parents, and policymakers have no idea what […]
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Who will be the next director of the Iowa Department of Education?
Judy Jeffrey announced yesterday that she is retiring as the Director of the Iowa Department of Education. She has been a tremendous supporter of revamping the ways that Iowa schools […]
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We ARE the system
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] n As school leaders, we have the responsibility to n n Facilitate learning environments that are respectful, empowering, and engaging for students n Create workplaces that are […]
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