How can your new learning assist you as an instructional leader who is guiding technology use and integration at a campus?

First and foremost I learned that there was such an initiative. I had no idea! I have participated in the STaR survey the past two years, but was not given a clear explanation as to why. I have already started a memo to my campus principal asking him to allow me to utilize the laptops that are currently sitting idle in a cabinet with a COW in my classroom next year. My initial thoughts are to have a summer session for my GT cluster and allow them to utilize the computers throughout the upcoming year in every facet of their learning. The objective of their lesson will be directed by the content I am teaching and they will be given choices as to what they will access and deliver as an end product. Now, as an instructional leader, I would champion the need for technology in the classroom. I would ask a group of teachers to join me in visiting schools that are recognized in the best in class of technology. Upon our return, I would ask they present their findings to the rest of the teachers/staff. I would implement a needs analysis for the teachers and from those findings; I would plan and implement in-service initiatives that would focus on integration of technology in the classroom lesson. Focus would be on identifying opportunities for training to get teachers up to a somewhat equal playing field in the technology world, then courses/time on integrating technology into every lesson. I would begin by asking each teacher to have at minimum one CIL (computer integrated lesson) for each of their core subjects a week. At mid-year, I would increase that to 2 lessons CIL per subject per week. During the next in-service opportunity I would ask the teachers to bring their year long CIL’s and present them (and share them electronically) to the rest of the staff. This way they can modify them to meet their TEKS and have some baseline to add to the CIL repertoire.