What should a school or district's goals for administrators' technology competencies be? What percentage of administrators meet national standards? Find out how to enhance administrator’s skills and develop a culture that expects all teachers and administrators to integrate technology into instruction and productivity. To help assess your current technology use and chart a course toward increased technology implementation, consult the EdTech Locator.

 

Related Resources

Find free webinars, chats, and resources on implementing technology in various aspects of education through the Schools Moving Up website, an initiative of WestEd.

Access and Equity in Online Classes and Virtual Schools (PDF)

The focus of this Issues Brief is to increase the awareness of the importance to students, teachers, and administrators of making online courses accessible to meet your legal obligations. This Issues Brief references civil rights legislation in the United States, but the issues of access and equity are relevant to all online programs.

Agency for Instructional Technology Training

The Agency for Instructional Technology offers customized trainings for schools and organizations. Their instructional designers and professional educators create unique training programs. 

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Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use

Classroom Connect

Classroom Connect provides professional development programs and online instructional materials for K-12 education. Classroom Connect offers online courses and customized face-to-face workshops to increase the level of technology integration in a district or develop a custom professional development program for a teacher.

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EdTech Locator - PD Coordinators

Use the EdTech Locator to identify where you, your school, or district is located on a continuum of technology integration. Map a course to deepen your technology integration to improve the achievement of all students. In addition, use CITEd's Teacher Self Assessment to help identify your placement on the Ed Tech Locator.

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Educational Technology

Educational Technology provides news, techniques, and theories of effective use of technology in education for use and consideration when implementing professional development.

Emergency Management for Schools

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) sponsors Emergency Management for Schools trainings to provide support to school staff and administrators interested in enhancing their preparedness efforts. On this site, viewers can access four one-hour Web casts, each featuring one of the four phases of emergency management: Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. These Web casts can be played in conjunction with the Power Point presentations made available to enhance schools' training experiences.

eSchool Online Classroom Connect

eSchool Online provides K-12 professional development for large urban districts, state departments of education, and educational publishers. The multiple media courseware for districts is uniquely customized and enhanced by eSchool Online's turnkey consulting, instructional design, and implementation services.

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Information Technology Making a Difference in Children's Lives: An Issue Brief for Leaders for Children

This Issue Brief urges groups working on children's issues to include technology planks in their platforms and policy agendas. In addition to working for equitable access to digital tools for underserved children, the report encourages leaders of children to lobby for changes in public programs serving children to make them more effective, efficient and accessible by incorporating information and communications technology.

Intel Education

Coordinate technology needs through Intel’s Education web site, which provides unit and lesson plans created by teachers, as well as other resources for math, science and technology.

InTime Videos

Watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrate technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies.

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Keeping Pace with k – 12 Online Learning (PDF)

This report examines how states, districts, and school are implementing online learning. Read an overview of the state of online learning in America, then delve deeper into specific states' programs to learn more about implementation strategies.

Library of Congress Puts Millions of Titles Online

Since the 1990s, the Library of Congress has worked to digitize content, making its holdings available to the millions of people unable to visit the library in person. Today the library has over 14 million of its titles available for free through its Web site. The digitization efforts include translating works into other languages and connecting the information of cultures around the world

Maximizing the Impact: "The Pivotal Role of Technology in a 21st Century Education System" (PDF)

Read this report which urges renewed emphasis on technology in education. In particular, it recommends: using technology to develop skills that will be useful in the new century; using technology to support innovative teaching and learning; and using technology to create robust education support systems.

Professional Development for Virtual Schooling and Online Learning (PDF)

This Issue Brief presents some myths about virtual schooling and online learning, then presents ways in which professional development coordinators can debunk those myths and prepare teachers and administrators to successfully implement online programs.

Progress Monitoring Webinars and Online Trainings

Investigate these free, online training Webinars on topics such as Using Student Progress Monitoring in a Response to Intervention Model, and Using CBM for AYP and Other Data Reporting.

Providing Professional Development for Effective Technology Use

Lack of professional development for technology use is one of the most serious obstacles to fully integrating technology into the curriculum. But traditional sit-and-get training sessions or one-time-only workshops have not been effective in making teachers comfortable with using technology or adept at integrating it into their lesson plans. This article discusses goals, action plans, pitfalls, viewpoints, cases, and other critical information for creating a successful professional development program around technology in the classroom.

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Route 21

Help yourself and your staff infuse 21st century skills into education. Explore this one-stop-shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources, and community tools.

School Technology Leadership Graduate Certificate Program

CASTLE offers a multitude of resources for school administrators and the university programs that prepare them. CASTLE's School Technology Leadership graduate certificate program is described as the only academic curriculum in the country that comprehensively covers ISTE's National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators.

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