1. International Summit on ICT in Education EDU-SUMMIT 2009 Working groups Panel Session June 11, 2009 Leadership Perspective Sara Dexter, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA

2. Claims About Tech Leadership Quality support and tech leadership are significant predictors of teachers’ tech uses Set Direction, Develop People, Make the Organization Work –attend to the purpose of the technology –teacher development and professional community building –technology access and support Technology leadership is a school-level characteristic, distributed across a team

3. Tech Leadership Goals/Objectives Leadership theory guiding tech leadership, and its research Focus on leadership practices Technology specialists’ roles on leadership teams Interplay between authority and expertise Learning theory guiding integration, and its research Teachers as learners Teachers’ learning environments Evaluation methods guiding implementation, and its research Aligning inputs, outputs, and value-added outcomes

4. How to Get There Enrich the theoretical foundations of the field –Interdisciplinary training of graduate students –Interdisciplinary research teams –Stronger writing Infuse the leadership preparation programs with key content