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3.1 Digital Citizenship Advocate
Leaders ensure all students engage in the active use of technology for learning and build their digital citizenship skills.
3.1.a Ensure Access to Skilled Teachers
Leaders ensure all students learn from educators who are skilled in using technology to create authentic and engaging learning experiences.
3.1.b Ensure Access to Meet Student Needs
Leaders ensure access to technology, connectivity, inclusive digital content and learning environments that meet the needs of all students.
3.1.c Model Inclusive, Healthy Use
Leaders model the use of technology in inclusive, healthy ways to solve problems and strengthen community.
3.1.d Model Safe, Ethical, Legal Use
Leaders model the safe, ethical, and legal use of technology and the critical examination of digital content.
3.2 Visionary Planner
Leaders engage others in establishing a vision, strategic plan and ongoing evaluation cycle for transforming learning with technology.
3.2.a Develop, Sustain Vision
Leaders include a wide range of perspectives from the community to develop and sustain a vision for using technology to advance student learning and success.
3.2.b Build a Strategic Plan
Leaders build on the shared vision by collaboratively creating a strategic plan that articulates how technology will be used to enhance learning.
3.2.c Evaluate Plan Progress
Leaders evaluate progress on the strategic plan, make course corrections, measure impact and scale effective approaches for using technology to transform learning.
3.2.d Communicate with Stakeholders
Leaders communicate effectively with stakeholders to gather input on the plan, celebrate successes and engage in a continuous improvement cycle.
3.2.e Share Experience with Peers
Leaders share lessons learned, best practices, challenges and the impact of learning with technology with other education leaders who want to learn from this work.
3.3 Empowering Leader
Leaders create a culture where teachers and learners are empowered to use technology in innovative ways to enrich teaching and learning.
3.3.a Empower Educators
Leaders empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning.
3.3.b Build Educator Competency
Leaders build the confidence and competency of educators to put the ISTE Standards for Students and ISTE Standards for Educators into practice.
3.3.c Inspire a Culture of Innovation
Leaders inspire a culture of innovation, creative problem-solving, and collaboration that allows the time to explore and develop teaching practices using digital tools.
3.3.d Use Tech to Meet Student Learning Needs
Leaders support educators in using technology to advance learning that meets the diverse learning, cultural and social-emotional needs of individual students.
3.3.e Use Analytics to View Student Progress
Leaders develop learning assessments that provide a personalized, actionable view of student progress in real time.
3.4 Systems Designer
Leaders build teams and systems to implement, sustain and continually improve the use of technology to support learning.
3.4.a Establish Tech Policies
Leaders guide teams to establish equitable technology policies that support effective learning.
3.4.b Ensure Sufficient & Scalable Resources
Leaders ensure that resources and infrastructure for supporting effective use of technology for learning are sufficient and scalable to meet future demand.
3.4.c Protect Student Privacy & Security
Leaders protect privacy and security by ensuring staff understand and implement effective data management policies.
3.4.d Establish Strategic Partnerships
Leaders establish partnerships to advance strategic plans, achieve learning priorities and develop opportunities for students to gain real-world experience.
3.5 Connected Learner
Leaders model and promote continuous professional learning for themselves and others.
3.5.a Stay Current on Innovation in Learning
Leaders set goals to remain current on emerging technologies for learning, innovations in pedagogy and advancements in the learning sciences.
3.5.b Participate in PLNs
Leaders participate regularly in online professional learning networks to collaboratively learn with and mentor other professionals.
3.5.c Engage in Reflective Practice
Leaders use technology to regularly engage in reflective practices that support personal and professional growth.
3.5.d Navigate Continuous Improvement
Leaders develop the skills needed to lead and navigate change, advance systems and promote a mindset of continuous improvement for how technology can improve learning.