Moving at the Speed of Creativity - Podcast233: Building Bridges for Conversation Between IT and Instructional Leaders in Washington Schools

Podcast233: Building Bridges for Conversation Between IT and Instructional Leaders in Washington Schools

Published by Wesley Fryer in edtech, leadership, schoolreform on March 2nd, 2008

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Podcast233: Building Bridges for Conversation Between IT and Instructional Leaders in Washington Schools [ 16:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3506)

This podcast is a recorded interview with Julia Fallon at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 27, 2008. Instead of sponsoring separate technology leadership summits for IT and instructional administrators this year, NCCE conveners (including Julia) coordinated a joint leadership summit. This provided an excellent opportunity, through panel discussion and small group breakout sessions, to build bridges for conversations between educational leaders in these different areas. In this interview, Julie discussed the formative results of the 2008 NCCE leadership summit as well as the outstanding work being supported through educational technology grant initiatives in the state of Washington. Educational leaders in other parts of the United States should follow the lead of NCCE and Washington department of education leaders in fostering these critical conversations between different educational leadership groups. Our educational system has many goals, and to insure groups within it are not working at cross-purposes regular communication is vital. Julia and others in Washington are working to capture video vignettes of innovative educational technology projects in their state which will be showcased online later this year. Kudos to these educational leaders in the state of Washington for their leadership in fostering these conversations between IT and instructional administrators, and making plans to follow-up on those conversations in the months ahead!