Leaders use technology to increase equity, inclusion, and digital citizenship practices.
1a: Ensure all students have skilled teachers who actively use technology to meet student learning needs.
1b: Ensure all students have access to the technology and connectivity necessary to participate in authentic and engaging learning opportunities.
1c: Model digital citizenship by critically evaluating online resources, engaging in civil discourse online and using digital tools to contribute to positive social change.
1d: Cultivate responsible online behavior, including the safe, ethical and legal use of technology.
Leaders engage others in establishing a vision, strategic plan and ongoing evaluation cycle for transforming learning with technology.
2a: Engage education stakeholders in developing and adopting a shared vision for using technology to improve student success, informed by the learning sciences.
2b: Build on the shared vision by collaboratively creating a strategic plan that articulates how technology will be used to enhance learning.
2c: Evaluate progress on the strategic plan, make course corrections, measure impact and scale effective approaches for using technology to transform learning.
2d: Communicate effectively with stakeholders to gather input on the plan, celebrate successes and engage in a continuous improvement cycle.
2e: Share lessons learned, best practices, challenges and the impact of learning with technology with other education leaders who want to learn from this work.
Leaders create a culture where teachers and learners are empowered to use technology in innovative ways to enrich teaching and learning.
3a: Empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning.
3b: Build the confidence and competency of educators to put the ISTE Standards for Students and Educators into practice.
3c: Inspire a culture of innovation and collaboration that allows the time and space to explore and experiment with digital tools.
3d: Support educators in using technology to advance learning that meets the diverse learning, cultural, and social-emotional needs of individual students.
3e: Develop learning assessments that provide a personalized, actionable view of student progress in real time.
Leaders build teams and systems to implement, sustain and continually improve the use of technology to support learning.
4a: Lead teams to collaboratively establish robust infrastructure and systems needed to implement the strategic plan.
4b: Ensure that resources for supporting the effective use of technology for learning are sufficient and scalable to meet future demand.
4c: Protect privacy and security by ensuring that students and staff observe effective privacy and data management policies.
4d: Establish partnerships that support the strategic vision, achieve learning priorities and improve operations.
Leaders model and promote continuous professional learning for themselves and others.
5a: Set goals to remain current on emerging technologies for learning, innovations in pedagogy and advancements in the learning sciences.
5b: Participate regularly in online professional learning networks to collaboratively learn with and mentor other professionals.
5c: Use technology to regularly engage in reflective practices that support personal and professional growth.
5d: Develop the skills needed to lead and navigate change, advance systems and promote a mindset of continuous improvement for how technology can improve learning.