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Technology Leaders Wanted: Technology Leaders Wanted: Acknowledging the Leadership Acknowledging the Leadership Role of a Technology CoordinatorRole of a Technology CoordinatorBy William Sugar and Harold Holloman
Presentation by Doug Strahler
GDIT 708: Technology Management and Leadership
OverviewOverviewTechnology Coordinator’s
ResponsibilitiesFocus on LeadershipInitial Investigation & ResultsImplications of the results
Technology Coordinator’s Technology Coordinator’s ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities“Multi-hat”“…responsible for promoting
technology integration within a school or school district” (p. 66).
Leading teachers in developing an effective K-12 environment
Four Main ResponsibilitiesFour Main Responsibilities
ResponsibilityInstruction
TaskModel best practices; staff
development; effective technology integration
Technology Purchases and recommendations; technical and networking support
Technology plans and policies; assessment
Supervision; vision; collaboration
Technical expertise
Planning and assessment
Leadership
A shared responsibility?A shared responsibility?Within a school district, who is
responsible for providing technology leadership?
Should this leadership responsibility rest on one person or should it be shared?
Is it the school administrator or the technology coordinator?
Which school leader or leaders should provide the oversight?
““Technology staff need Technology staff need more leadership training more leadership training and leaders need more and leaders need more technology training.”technology training.”
Nine Leadership Nine Leadership CharacteristicsCharacteristicsCorporate visionDevelopment of
OthersFacilitatingServant
LeadershipProblem SolvingResource
Management
School Communications
Student Centeredness
Systems Thinking
An initial investigationAn initial investigationFull-time technology coordinator for
a middle school with 37 teachersMixed-method approach
◦Observations & surveysTrained observer ‘shadowed’ for
nine three-hour sessions and recorded each action
Assigned one of the nine characteristics to each recorded action
Observation ResultsObservation ResultsThe technology coordinator did
exhibit characteristics of a leaderProblem-solving & Facilitating
were the top two characteristics observed of this technology coordinator
Survey ResultsSurvey Results
ImplicationsImplicationsCurricular revisions for training
◦School improvement planning Corporate vision, Systems Thinking, &
Resource management
◦School’s needs analysis Student Centeredness & School
Communications
◦In-box tasks Problem-solving and Facilitating
◦Leadership development self-assessment Servant Leadership and Development of
Others
ResourcesResources
Sugar, W., & Holloman, H. (2009). Technology Leaders Wanted: Acknowledging the Leadership Role of a Technology Coordinator. TechTrends, 53(6), 66-75.