Technology Standards for School Administrators
Message from the TSSA Collaborative
On behalf of the TSSA Collaborative, I am pleased to present the Technology
Standards for School Administrators. The impetus for the development of
these Standards was the recognition that administrators play a pivotal
role in determining how well technology is used in our schools. These
Standards enable us to move from just acknowledging the importance of
administrators to defining the specifics of what administrators need to
know and be able to do in order to discharge their responsibility as leaders
in the effective use of technology in our schools.
The Technology Standards for School Administrators fit with and complement
the exemplary work done by the International Society for Technology and
Education (ISTE) in the NETS Projects, which produced educational technology
standards for teachers and students. As a member of the Consortium, and
particularly as the operational host for TSSA, ISTE played a very important
role in this Project. We were able to accomplish this Project faster and
better because of the expertise the ISTE team brought to it as a result
of their previous work developing educational technology standards.
You will see in this document the names of the organizations in the Collaborative.
These organizations provided the leadership for this effort. All of these
organizations recognized the need for technology standards for school
administrators and recognized that it made sense for us to work together
rather than to devise divergent and competing sets of standards. You will
also see the list of Participating Organizations. These organizations
lent their support and council in the development of the standards. We
expect that all of these organizations and others who may join with us
will be involved in the most important task ahead – the implementation
of the Standards.
I also wish to acknowledge the support provided by our Project Contributors.
Their vote of confidence in us though their investment of funds and in-kind
support is deeply appreciated.
Finally, I want to thank the hundreds of administrators, teachers, school
board members, higher education faculty, state officials, and others who
engaged in the process of developing the Standards with us. Working with
you in this Project made the past year and a half a productive and rewarding
experience.
James Bosco, Chairperson
Technology Standards for School Administrators
Professor, Department of Educational Studies
Western Michigan University
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