A Visionary Leader

Inspiring a technology enriched culture in a school building requires that the administrators are "practicing what they preach."  The idea of stepping into a new building as an administrator, where cultures and norms have already been established is terrifying.  The faculty and staff are not going to take you seriously if you can't articulate or model your vision.  ISTE Standard 1 for Administrators states that, "Educational Administrators inspire and lead development and implementation of a shared vision for comprehensive technology integration..."

To me, this is the first and most important step in the process of being a technology leader.  How do you start? Where does the vision come from?  I found two resources to be extremely helpful in creating my technology vision.  "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-Leading Principals" was a great place to start.  I followed this up with reading over the following book, "The Digital Principal" by Anne Michelle Burke and Natalie Hughes.  The first chapter of this book discusses establishing a vision and how to follow through with it.  

I firmly believe that without a vision, there will be no buy in.