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Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D.
Director UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE); Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Coordinator, Educational Administration Program, Iowa State University.
Keynote sponsored by Earl F. Andersen, Inc. (EFA)
Institute Follow-Up
For a copy of Dr. McLeod's keynote presentation (PowerPoint) and exhaustive resources that he has compiled for MESPA members' use, visit the MESPA page on his Web site.
Dr. Scott McLeod contact information:
Iowa State University
N243 Lagomarcino Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011-3195
(515) 294-4871 (ofc)
(515) 294-4942 (fax)
mcleod@iastate.edu
Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org
and is the creator of LeaderTalk, the nation's first group blog written
by school leaders for school leaders. More information about Dr. McLeod
is available at his web site, www.scottmcleod.net. More information about CASTLE is available at www.schooltechleadership.org.
Keynote overview:
The times they are a’changin’: Transitioning schools into the 21st century.
According to Dr. Scott McLeod: “We have a moral obligation to prepare students for their
technology-suffused, globally-interconnected futures. As a nation, we
shouldn’t continue to let students acquire the majority of their
technology skills, knowledge, habits, and beliefs on their own. There
is an important and vital role for schools in this and effective
leaders are the key. Meaningful and sustainable school change never
happens without strong leadership.”
Effective leadership is required if schools are to realize the transformative potential of digital technologies. Dr. McLeod will address the societal and technological changes that are revolutionizing the world around us and will discuss how school administrators can best facilitate an effective transition from the current 19th century paradigm to what is needed for success in the 21st century. Participants will receive a wealth of technology leadership resources that they can use to facilitate change in their school organizations.
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading academic experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues. Dr. McLeod is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators.
In 2003 Dr. McLeod and his CASTLE co-director, Dr. Joan Hughes, created the country's first graduate program designed to prepare technology-savvy school leaders. After the American Institutes for Research validated the program as having statistically-significant positive impacts on educators' technology leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities, Drs. McLeod and Hughes gave the curriculum away to 15 other universities to help improve their technology-related preservice administrator preparation practices.
Dr. McLeod has worked with nearly 40 corporate and organizational partners to provide technology-related publications and resources for school administrators. Partners and supporters of CASTLE's work include Microsoft, IBM, the National School Boards Association, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the International Society for Technology in Education, the Consortium for School Networking, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation. He also has helped numerous school districts and state departments of education with their technology leadership and data-driven accountability challenges.
As a result of his extensive vitae of service and outreach to schools and administrators across the country, Dr. McLeod has received several honors and awards, including being named in 2007 as a Leader in Learning by the cable industry and as one of Phi Delta Kappa's Emerging Leaders. In 2004 he was the first untenured faculty member to ever receive the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Along with his co-author, Dr. Michelle Young, he received the William J. Davis Award in 2002 for the best research article of the year in Educational Administration Quarterly.
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