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The Principal as Technology Leader

By: Theodore Creighton

The larger picture in educational technology is not hardware or software, but curriculum, achievement, and technology's overall role in education. In an engaging style, the author--founder of the Idaho Administrative Technology Leadership Center--explores the complexities of change and implementation of technology in schools. The Principal as Technology Leader looks at current research while providing guidelines to development and planning, and includes sample technology plans that are easy to follow and use.

In addition, the book highlights:

Instructional leadership and curriculum
The digital divide between needs and availability
Needs assessment
Strategic planning
Staff technophobia
TSSA standards
Constructivism and Engaged Learning
Community support

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761945420
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2002
Page Count: 136
Publication date: January 14, 2003

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"An excellent resource for principals—especially new principals. It will definitely help them establish their vision for technology in their schools. I read the book in one sitting."
Kim Leblanc, Region V Technology Resource Specialist
Calcasieu Parish Public Schools, Louisiana

"An invaluable resource to practicing school leaders, students in school leader preparation programs, and professors of school leadership."
Neil J. Shipman, Clinical Associate Professor
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

"Illustrates that technology leadership is not about bells and whistles, but about curriculum and instructional leadership."
John Artis, Assistant Superintendent
Upper Arlington City Schools, Ohio

"Creighton does a wonderful job exploring the complexities of technology in schools."
Vicki Barnett, Course Instructor
ITT Technical Institute, Florida

Lead your school to greater technological achievement!

The larger picture in educational technology is not hardware or software, but curriculum, achievement, and technology's overall role in education. In an engaging style, the author, also founder of the Idaho Administrative Technology Leadership Center, explores the complexities of change and implementation of technology in schools. The Principal as Technology Leader looks at current research while providing guidelines to development and planning, and includes sample technology plans that are easy to follow and use.

In addition, the book highlights:

Instructional leadership and curriculum
The digital divide between needs and availability
Needs assessment
Strategic planning
Staff technophobia
TSSA standards
Constructivism and Engaged Learning
Community support

In an age of data-driven decision making and accountability, Creighton advances the argument for staff development and technology implementation that will enhance student achievement, rather than relying on outdated methods of drill and practice.

Key features

Creighton's Schools and Data has been a good seller since it was recently published.
Ted is Executive Director of NCPEA
The ideal piece for both our technology and our educational administration lists
Good bundle with Principal as Curriculum Leader
Good bundle with Windows on the Future and Using Technology to Increase Student Learning

Author(s)

Theodore Creighton

Theodore B. Creighton is currently a Professor and Program Leader in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining the faculty at Virginia Tech, he served as Director of the Center for Research and Doctoral Studies in Educational Leadership at Sam Houston State University and as a Professor in Educational Leadership at Idaho State University. His background includes teaching at all grade levels in Washington, D.C.; Cleveland, Ohio; and Los Angeles, California. His administrative experience includes serving as principal and superintendent in both Fresno and Kern Counties, California. He holds a BS degree in teacher education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in educational administration from California State University Long Beach, and a doctorate from the University of California Davis.

Though active in many professional organizations, he devotes considerable time to his role as Executive Director of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration. He also serves as a member of the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA), and as a Stafford Faculty Fellow for the National Institute on Leadership, Disabilities and Students Placed at Risk (NILDSPAR). He recently was appointed as Project Director of the Connexions Knowledge Base Project, an international initiative in collaboration with Rice University charged with assembling the knowledge base in educational administration. His research includes examining the forces of the school principalship, and he is widely published in the area of schools with alternative forms of school leadership.

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

Introduction

1. Principal Leadership and Successful Technology Implementation

2. Are Schools and Technology Leaders Doing Enough?

3. Why Do Technology Programs Fail?

4. Strategic Planning for Technology: An Oxymoron?

5. Setting the Stage for Staff Development: Uniting Technology and Constructivist Teaching and Learning Environments

6. Resisters and Saboteurs: Dealing With Teachers Resistant to Technology Implementation

7. Teacher Evaluation and the Use of Technology

8. Sustaining Effective Technology Plans: Management and Leadership

9. The Future: Leadership and Technology Implementation

10. OK School Leaders, Let's Put One Together

Resource A: A SWOT Matrix for Technology Planning

Resource B: Administrative Dimensions and Look-Fors

Resource C: List of Tables and Figures

References

Index

Reviews

Illustrates that technology leadership is not about bells and whistles, but about curriculum and instructional leadership.

John Artis, Assistant Superintendent
Upper Arlington City Schools, Ohio

An excellent resource for principals—especially new principals. It will definitely help them establish their vision for technology in their schools. I read the book in one sitting.

Kim Leblanc, Region V Technology Resource Specialist
Calcasieu Parish Public Schools, LA

Creighton does a wonderful job exploring the complexities of technology in schools.

Vicki Barnett, Course Instructor
ITT Technical Institute, Florida

Dr. Creighton's candid and reflective writing style will make this an invaluable resource to practicing school leaders, students in school leader preparation programs, and professors of school leadership.

Neil J. Shipman, Clinical Associate Professor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Professor Creighton makes the best case to date for requiring school administrators to understand that effective educational technology is more than e-mail and internet access.

Joe Schneider, Deputy Executive Director
American Association of School Administrators

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