Empower Leaders at Every Level to Effect Change

摘要

The days of submitting a hodgepodge of continuing-education credit hours to maintain administrative certification is a thing of the past in Alabama, USA. Now, every administrator must complete a long-term, cohesive professional "study" in each of the state's administrative standards over a period of years. Luckily, one of these standards is technology. Even better, our superintendent selected this as our districts focus for the 2010-11 school year. Receiving dozens of hours of dedicated training time with school administrators was a first for us, so I guess you could say that we went all in. For nearly a year, five of us spent 25 hours every month planning and orchestrating the presentations, hands-on sessions, demonstrations, school visits, and online activities that comprised our study. Add to this the number of hours that guest planners and presenters contributed, and our total investment easily added up to thousands of hours.