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Why Digital Leadership? #digilead

A Principal's Reflections

Almost every chapter of Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times opens up with a vignette that illustrates specific characteristics, behaviors, skills, and mindsets in action. The Pillars of Digital Leadership Here is a breakdown: Forward – Some wisdom from the great Yong Zhao. Preface – What is digital leadership?

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Digital Leadership: Leading Change from Where You Are | #DigiLead

A Principal's Reflections

Back in 2009, I began calling for an evolved construct of leadership that would better serve schools in meeting the diverse needs of learners and stakeholders alike. Digital leadership is all about people and how their collective actions aligned with new thinking, ideas, and tools can help to build cultures primed for success.

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Leading is Not Easy

A Principal's Reflections

One of my favorite sites to glean more insight and knowledge on leadership is Inc. Even though the site shares content specific to business growth and innovation so many of the articles and opinion pieces connect to leadership in the education space. If you are not using this app please download it to your mobile device.

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Observing the Common Core Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

As I continued to ponder some of these crucial questions while scripting the lesson on my iPad I remembered a free app that I had recently downloaded from Mastery Connect. Until then, I highly recommend that any administrator download the free Mastery Connect App , which is available for iOS, Android, and Windows devices.

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Remind Takes Student and Stakeholder Engagement to a New Level

A Principal's Reflections

Try out some of these resources to use mobile devices to facilitate digital leadership: Remind has partnered with Common Sense Media to create a Digital Citizenship Starter Kit for all schools to download and use with teachers, students, and parents. Communication Digital Leadership Remind'

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Tools to Help Become a Tech Savvy Educator

A Principal's Reflections

21st Century Leadership Shift Happens (must see video for any educator unfamiliar with the tends and impacts associated with technology and social media. Create an account then download Dropbox on your computers, smartphone, and any other mobile device that you have (i.e. educational technology Leadership Opinion Social Media tools'

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Learning Walks

A Principal's Reflections

It’s been a few years now since I left the principalship to pursue my new career as a Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). Under the leadership of Matt Friedman and Jonathan Blow from Downingtown, coaching days with me were added so that we could all get into classrooms and conduct learning walks.

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