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NYSED Enhancing Education Through Technology
Title IID 2009-2010
Project Highlights
School Districts: New York City School Districts 21 and 18
Project Title: The Leadership 2.0 Project
Theme Focus: Leadership and System Change Through Technology Innovation
The primary purpose of The Leadership 2.0 Project is to improve teaching and learning by building a critical mass of school leaders who understand the value and have the knowledge to develop current technologies as an instructional tool at each school site. The integration of these technologies will result in creative classroom instruction and improved academic performance. The Leadership 2.0 Project is the result of collaboration between 13 public schools with 12,000 students and four non-public schools serving 1,060 students in the partnering NYC school districts.
During the two year course of the project, each participating school will engage and support a team of leaders focusing on administrators, students and instructional leaders. The project will provide a comprehensive program of workshops and hands-on institutes that will develop leadership skills and support team members as they learn to articulate a vision for success through instructional technology and provide the resources to achieve it. The highlight of this project will be the development of an online Professional Learning Community (PLC) that will provide resources for the leadership team at each school site. The PLC will serve as a platform that allows participants to integrate current technologies into their professional lives; understand how these tools improve teaching and learning; and how to create a customized vision and plan to meet the needs of their individual schools. By including students in the leadership construct, schools will have new perspective on how they can create a relevant and challenging academic program that leads to student achievement.
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