Professional Development for Administrators

 All administrators can learn. - Doug

Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant asks that we blog about PD for administrators this Independence Day. Instead of messing up my holiday and yours rambling on, I will simply link to a couple of my past articles/resources on the topic:

• Rubrics for Leadership: What Technologically Literate Superintendents, Principals and Directors Should Know and Be Able to do with Information Technologies, The School Administrator, April 1999. with Eric Bartleson, Ph.D., Minnesota State University, Mankato MN (The most recent version of the rubrics can be found here. I'd love comments on how these should be updated.)
  
• Improving Administrative Technology Skills, TECH LEADERSHIP, School Administrator, May 2005 (Links to all my old TECH LEADERSHIP columns - on technology issues written for administrators - can be found here.)
• No Principal Left Behind. Head for the Edge, March 2003. (Working with your building administrator written for library media specialists, but techs could apply these principles too.)
  

Happy reading. But I hope you spend your 4th doing something much more pleasant. 

Update: 153 articles, columns, workshop descriptions, etc. now moved to the new website. I think I only have about 100 more to go. 

Comments

[Jim Keltgen]

Thanks for the great resources Doug! It's insightful and motivational to see the rubrics and just where we stand as a district. Has this ever been brought up to the technicians or at our meetings? I don't recall ever hearing about it since I started here in October of 99. Might be a good motivational aid, just to see how "on the bleeding edge" we stand in comparison to national standards.