Strengthen District Leadership and Communications

Action Steps
for Superintendents and District Leadership Teams

• Reflect on your own use of technology and explore new ways to use technology to improve your knowledge, skills, personal productivity and leadership effectiveness.
• Commit to attending at least one regional, state or national conference focused on technology use in education every year.
• Collaborate as a leadership team to identify and implement technology-based approaches to communicating, interacting and engaging with students, parents and your community. Desktop videoconferencing technologies, for example, are an easy-to-use, effective tool for communications and collaboration.
• Revise annual performance goals to include actions steps for developing technology skills; keeping current with technology; identifying opportunities to test technology systems to strengthen administrative functions or improve student learning; and model uses of hardware, software and compelling learning environments for the school community, including teachers and other staff members, students and parents.
• Understand the value of technology in terms of its costs and benefits.
• Develop and deploy coaches to improve every facet of district technology leadership.