The document outlines the objectives and strategies for implementing transformational leadership in a 1:1 learning environment within schools. It details barriers to change, such as time and teacher beliefs, and suggests methods for overcoming these challenges through leadership and support. Additionally, the text emphasizes the importance of a shared vision, effective communication, and the integration of technology to enhance student engagement and develop 21st-century skills.

1. Transformational Leadership
Maureen Cohen
Director of Curriculum
Mendon-Upton Regional School District
mcohen@mursd.org
maureenmcohen@blogspot.com
@mcohenmursd

2. Objectives
To understand and apply change models to
1:1 change (change learning curve, change
model, steps to leading change)
To identify barriers to 1:1 and ways to
overcome them
To develop a framework for
transformational leadership skills
To begin the visioning of the 1:1
learning environment

3. Step 1:
Understanding Change

4. Imagining the Possibilities

5. Imagining the Possibilities
http://youtu.be/YEls3tq5wIY

7. The Change Curve
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_96.htm

8. Activity: Where are they now?

9. Using the Change Curve

10. Overcoming Barriers to Change

11. 1st Order Barriers
Time
Access to
Technology
Support
Scheduling
Leadership

12. Steps to Overcome First Order Barriers
Schedule
•Longer classes (blocks) lead to higher integration
Access
•Easy availability of technology increases use
•Access in classrooms increases use for high level purposes, rather than labs/carts
•Don’t rely on central locations…increase in mobile technology/space
Time
•Time to meet with mentors
•Time to be trained and to practice using technologies
Support
Leadership
•Mentor teachers with technical skills assist with ongoing, as-needed support
•Make technology integration a priority in PD
•Relate trainings to content areas
•Students as trainers
•Develop a shared vision and promoting innovating change
•Strong commitment and modeling by principal

13. 2nd Order Barriers
2nd Order
Barriers
Teacher
Beliefs and
Attitudes
Teacher
Technology
Skills

14. Steps to Overcome Second Order
Barriers
Teacher
Skills
Teacher
Beliefs
• Need a sense of control
• Feel levels of success
• Learn how to link to student learning and content areas
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Innovative thinkers and constructivist views
See relevance to student learning
Leaders need to encourage risk-taking
Need to observe others successful using technology
Be part of the development of shared vision for technology
use

15. The changing role of leadership
• “A school’s technology efforts are seriously
threatened unless key administrators become active
technology leaders in a school”
(Anderson & Dexter, 2005, p. 74).
• The educational leader’s new mission “must now
include designing and implementing new strategies
to help teachers recognize, understand, and
integrate technology with teaching and learning in
the classroom”
(Creighton, 2003, p. 2).

16. Understanding Transformational Leadership

17. Transformational Leader
Idealized
Influence
Inspirational
Motivation
Purpose Driven. Role Model.
“Walk the talk”
Inspiring. Inspire followers
Individualized
Consideration
People Driven. Genuine concern
for needs of followers
Intellectual
Stimulation
Innovating. Challenges followers
to be innovative and creative

18. Idealized
Influence
Purpose Driven. Role
Model. “Walk the talk”
SlideShare
Share
presentations
Scoopit
Article
curation
Youtube
Screencasts,
Videos
Ustream.tv
Stream live
events
Forms
Feedback
Documents
Collaboration
Book Club
Online
discussion
Twitter
Facebook
Principal Blog
Google Apps
Edmodo

19. Inspirational
Motivation
Inspiring
followers
Why
How
What
Simon Sinek, How great leaders inspire
action.
“Whether they’re individuals or
organizations, we follow those who
lead, not because we have to, but
because we want to. We follow those
who lead, not for them, but for
ourselves. And it’s those who start
with “why” that have the ability to
inspire those around them or find
others who inspire them.” Simon Sinek

20. Individualized
Consideration
People Driven. Genuine
concern for needs of followers

21. Intellectual
Stimulation
Innovating. Challenges followers
to be innovative and creative

22. Building a Quality Planning Team
• Enough key players
so that those left
out cannot block
progress
• All relevant points
of view should be
represented
Position
Power
Leadership
• Group should have
enough proven
leaders to drive the
change process.
Expertise
Credibility
• Group should be
seen and respected

23. What is your
vision for 1:1
learning?
http://daynurseryindy.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/day-nursery-students-chat-via-skype/

24. Qualities of Vision
Imaginable
• Convey a clear picture of what the future looks
like
Desirable
• Appeal to the long-term interest of stakeholders
Feasible
• They contain realistic and attainable goals
Focused
• Clear enough to provide guidance in decisionmaking
Communicable
• Easy to communicate and can be explained
quickly

25. Communicating
the Vision
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Simple
Vivid
Repeatable
Invitational

26. Example—create a movie
Vision of 21st Century Learning: http://youtu.be/n81ZehzJSfQ

27. Example—Create a tagline. What will
be your mantra?

28. Grafton
1:1 Learning Initiative
1:1 Learning Initiative
• To extend and expand learning
beyond the school day-anytime,
anywhere learning
• To support all learners to achieve
higher levels of learning through
personalized learning and equal
access to technology
• To provide authentic and relevant
learning experiences
• To increase student engagement and
productivity
• To increase 21st century skill
development in collaboration,
communication, creativity, critical
thinking, problem solving, digital
literacy, and global awareness.
Why?
• We are creating a 21st
century school and shifting
to mobile technology
integration is a 21st century
model, which places
students at the center of
their own learning.
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http://11learning.grafton.ghs.schoolfusion.us/modules/grou
ps/integrated_home.phtml?gid=3095182&sessionid
=d9ca603746e90ed2a84b667c06b8726e

29. Bedford/Natick
Bedford High School
iPad Program
Natick: 1:1
Student Laptop Program
• “To greatly enhance availability
of access to information and
communications technology”
Bedford
• Benefits: “Increased student
engagement, authentic learning,
better connections to learning
styles, integration of current
information.”
• http://www.bedford.k12.ma.us/h
ome/bedford-high-school/575ipad-faq.html
• Digital Conversation Initiative
is to employ technology in
ways that improve teaching
and learning through
increased student
engagement.
• “Engaging these students and
making education relevant is
critical…for our schools to
continue to effectively and
fully prepare the citizens and
leaders of tomorrow.”

30. Mendon-Upton
Miscoe-Hill Middle School
Goals
• Student acquisition of 21st
century skills
• Support of implementation of the
Common Core State Standards
• Teaching Digital Citizenship
• Transforming Instruction
• Commitment to going paperless
• Commitment to use of digital
texts
• http://www.mursdipad.info/p/ho
me.html

31. Millis
1:1 Personalized Learning Initiative
Millis Middle School: 1:1
Personalized Learning Initiative
1:1 Goals
• The goals for Personalized
learning are embedded in
the district vision: to
empower students to be
self-directed, life-long
learners and leaders who
know how to communicate,
collaborate, think critically
and be creative problem
solvers.
• Extend Learning Beyond the
School Day
• Increase Student Engagement
and Productivity
• Increase 21st Century Skill
Development
• Promote Self-Directed
Learning
• Support Personalized Learning
• http://www.millis.k12.ma.us/s
ervices/edtech/1to1

32. Waltham/Lynnfield
Waltham 1:1 Learning Initiative
Lynnfield 1:1 Initiative
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To increase student engagement and
productivity through personalized learning
and equal access to technology
To extend and expand learning beyond the
school day-anytime, anywhere
To provide authentic and relevant learning
experiences
To increase student achievement and
academic rigor
To promote inclusion by providing
opportunities that level the playing field for
children with disabilities in general education
classrooms.
To increase 21st century skill development in
collaboration, communication, critical
thinking and problem solving, digital literacy,
and global awareness
http://www.walthampublicschools.org/1to1L
earning.pdf
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Allow easy access to technology and
best prepare our students for the 21st
century.
“everywhere learning”
Increased critical thinking
opportunities
Valuable instructional and
assessment tool
Opportunities for online textbooks
and up-to-date information.
Enhanced student and teacher
collaboration.
Increased opportunities to
differentiate instruction
https://sites.google.com/a/lynnfield.
k12.ma.us/technology/future-goals

33. Uxbridge/Shrewsbury
Uxbridge HS: iPad initiative
Shrewsbury MS:
Personal iPad Program
• Quote: “the learning
landscape just got even
bigger.”
• We want our students, who
are living in the 21st century,
to have a 21st century
educational experience.
• Program Goals:
– enhance innovation,
collaboration, motivation, and
efficiencies
– Increase educational
opportunities for as many
students as possible by
reducing financial barriers to
personal learning devices
– Build a sustainable program
– Partner with families to
promote safe and responsible
technology use

34. Sudbury/Weston
Sudbury 1:1 Pilot
• Personalized learning and differentiated
instruction
• Enhanced student engagement,
motivation, and ownership for learning
• Access to student work facilitating
ongoing formative assessment
• Enhanced opportunities for group and
project-based learning
• Enhanced opportunity for collaboration,
within and outside the school and district
• Enhanced access to primary source
information
• Improved student work flow
• Decreased emphasis on technology as a
discrete topic or subject
• Minimization of traditional resources
• http://learninginsudbury.com/11resources/
Weston 1:1 iPad Program
• Provide access to rich content
• Allow for space/time
independence of learning
• Assist students with executive
functioning skills and
communication tools
• Provide pragmatic productivity
tools for production of student
work and demonstration of
understanding
• Prepare students for their future
academic lives within the digital
world as we know it.
• https://sites.google.com/a/my.we
ston.org/ipadsupport/home/rationale

35. Belmont High School
Innovative Teaching Initiative
• Providing students with iPads in a one-to-one model creates
opportunities to improve students’ 21st century skills for critical
thinking, collaboration, data gathering and analysis, oral and written
communication, and technological competence, among others…
• The one-to-one model provides students with greatly increased
opportunities to practice and provides teachers with multiple
opportunities over the course of the year to assess students.
Specifically, we anticipate students will become more engaged and
capable in research, creative projects, argumentation,
demonstration, summaries, and other artifacts that grant evidence
of growth of knowledge and skills.
• http://www.belmont.k12.ma.us/bps/Families/Innovation-FAQs

36. Your turn for visioning
• Is it aligned to your “why?”
• Can you envision what it would look like in
action?
• Is aligned with your school core
beliefs/values?
• Is it simple, repeatable, vivid, and invitational?

38. How to become a Lead Digital Learner
• Smackdowns (sharing of • Cybrary Man’s
best practice with tech
Educational Web Sites
under 2 min at fac mtg) • Worlds of Learning—
• Tech Thursdays
digital badges
• Feedly…to follow other • Twitter chats---#edchat,
blogs
#sschat
• Teacher’s Channel
• EdCamps
• EdPerspectives—google
hangout monthly